I'm at CJC's event today about contemporary white supremacy in America.
@cpicciolini is talking about how radicals community build. He says rallies/concerts were previous hubs for radicals but the internet is a new "a 24-hour hate buffet" where radicals can feel they belong.
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Andrej Umansky says the far-right is skilled at exploiting fearful and confused people. He says far-right actors sell hate incrementally, and gradually ramp up the rhetoric. He draws a historical parallel between this modern approach and the approach of Nazi Germany in 1930s.
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Goda adds in, comparing the sales pitch of an impending apocalypse from the far-right/white nationalist is not unlike the sales pitch in the onset of the Nazi era in Germany.
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Kristen Clarke says that combatting modern white supremacy requires creativite and new approaches. She adds that it's not good to totally write off segments of the US population, and that the goal of justice against white supremacy should ultimately be reform.
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Kirsten Dyck and J. Mackenzie Pierce are now speaking on a panel about music's role in extremist recruitment and propaganda.
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Music alone cannot turn someone into an extremist, Dyck says, but it does pack an "emotional punch" that can reinforce social cohesion in the movements. It can also be used to get the attention of the public, she says.
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Dyck adds that the modern style of white supremacist music is moving away from punk and moving into electronic and hip-hop genres. Now a room full of academic types is sitting here listening to "fashwave."
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@seywarddarby on the alt-right's vision of itself: it's like "the worst person you would meet in a debate club."Tampilkan utas ini -
She adds, what might bring women to the white supremacist movement: Need and social desires, narratives to understand why they feel they needs, and a network to achieve it. Also says that women's role in the movement has grown a bit more complicated with tech entering the space.
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Bart Bonikowski is talking now about how what were fringe and extreme ideologies and movements have been santized by the mainstream. "This reservoir of ethnonationalst thinking has been energized"
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