There's a take I hear from time to time about how there's really not that many white nationalists/alt-right out there, and that we shouldn't worry about them so much. It's interesting because the first part of this is kind of valid.
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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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