Many who study these movements are kind of flabbergasted that Richard Spencer, for example, gets so much attention. Identity Evropa honestly probably doesn't number much more than 3, 400. If that.
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But that's kind of where the argument breaks down. These groups and personalities somehow command an exceptional amount of attention proportional to their actual direct influence.
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Spencer is dangerous not because he has a large army of followers but because he is able to swing narratives *despite* his diminishing base.
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His danger is in his abilities to normalize his hate, not in his ability to muster the troops.
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White supremacy is embedded in all our structures. But how we empower/disempower those structures really comes down to the actions of a shockingly small number of people.
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Rebuking Identity Evropa doesn't abolish white supremacy. But allowing them to go unchecked has measurable impact on what we find acceptable.
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For these reasons we need to understand how to move forward. We need breakers to smash white supremacy. We also need builders to create systems in which white supremacy cannot grow.
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There’s a parallel here: the “right to life” anti-choice zealots are statistically not very numerous, but effectively dictate policy on women’s health in entire swaths of the country.
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I mean, every dominant tyrannical crusade started out small. Every single one.
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