Articles for White Nationalism

Letters to the Editor: Call out the white nationalism that props up Trump’s candidacy
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Call out the white nationalism that props up Trump’s candidacy

LA Times  

To the editor: “Here’s the hard truth of the last eight years: America leans at least as much toward white nationalism as it does toward democracy.” Thank you, Erin Aubry Kaplan, for calling out the truth. To the editor: Kaplan writes an honest article about the Democratic Party and why it can’t call out white nationalism — afraid of tarnishing …

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Opinion: The force propping up Trump that we still don’t talk about
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: The force propping up Trump that we still don’t talk about

LA Times  

At the debate in Atlanta, former President Trump “won,” but he also intensified the MAGA moral mudslide. Democrats have been downright apoplectic at President Biden’s projecting confusion and weakness when the party needed clarity and resolve. Face to face with Trump, the president’s fatigue and bewilderment mirrors what so many of us feel in response to an intensifying moral MAGA …

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R. Derek Black’s new book: A convert from white nationalism has a warning for the left about antisemitism.
7 months ago

R. Derek Black’s new book: A convert from white nationalism has a warning for the left about antisemitism.

Slate  

When R. Derek Black was a child, they were considered the heir to the white nationalist movement in America. And I feel deeply uneasy, because a large portion of my social circle is Jewish, and I’m seeing this kind of reaction that even in the best of times really does not seem to take seriously the discrimination and fear that …

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Busted: Paul Gosar campaign consultant linked to antisemitism and white nationalism
8 months ago

Busted: Paul Gosar campaign consultant linked to antisemitism and white nationalism

Raw Story  

The campaign committee of far-right Rep. Paul Gosar is engaging a North Carolina firm whose owner proudly promotes white nationalism and antisemitic tropes, while pushing false narratives surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. READ: From 'really rich' to begging: Inside Trump's U-turn on one of his first campaign lies In another recent post, Fritsch wrote that …

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He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council.
9 months, 1 week ago

He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council.

Huff Post  

ENID, Okla. — On the evening of Nov. 7, 2023, Judson “Judd” Blevins, a city councilman in Enid, Oklahoma, took his seat inside the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Municipal Complex and watched as local constituents took turns at a lectern. “A lot of people want to give you a pass, Mr. Blevins, because you’re an honorably discharged veteran,” said …

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Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US?
1 year, 1 month ago

Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US?

BBC  

Did American History X foreshadow the resurgence of white nationalism in the US? Alamy Edward Furlong stars as teenager Danny Vinyard, who is ordered to take the American History X course to avoid expulsion Derek's crime was an act of intense brutality, portrayed in gut-wrenching detail. Dorothy Roberts, a sociologist who has devoted decades studying anti-black tropes, tells BBC Culture …

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Why Republicans are trying to rebrand white nationalism right now
1 year, 5 months ago

Why Republicans are trying to rebrand white nationalism right now

Salon  

In the 1970s and 1980s, overt white supremacists and their organizations were largely marginalized in American society. In a 2018 conversation, anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise offered this powerful description of how racism and white supremacy are central to today's Republican Party and "conservative" movement: All that stuff is continuing, and it seems to me that we are barking …

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'He hasn't backtracked at all!' Morning Joe blasts Tommy Tuberville for defense of white nationalists
1 year, 5 months ago

'He hasn't backtracked at all!' Morning Joe blasts Tommy Tuberville for defense of white nationalists

Raw Story  

Sen. Tommy Tuberville finally and grudgingly admitted that white nationalists might be racist, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough wasn't impressed by his concession. "He still didn't say that white nationalists are racists, he says, 'Oh, if that's somebody's definition,'" Scarborough said. "But this guy has lived in the South for 50-something years -- 55, 56, 57 years -- he knows exactly …

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Trump reportedly directs aides to hire 'pro-white nationalism' failed GOP candidate
1 year, 8 months ago

Trump reportedly directs aides to hire 'pro-white nationalism' failed GOP candidate

Raw Story  

The New York Times is reporting that former President Donald Trump is preparing to make another big hire as he gears up for his third presidential campaign. According to the Times, Trump has told aides to find a job for Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and failed Republican congressional candidate who once infamously handcuffed herself to Twitter's offices in New …

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Minister warns Wisconsinites about 'destructive worldview' of white Christian nationalism
1 year, 10 months ago

Minister warns Wisconsinites about 'destructive worldview' of white Christian nationalism

Raw Story  

For three days this week, the Rev. On Tuesday she is scheduled to discuss American democracy and the role of faith at First Baptist Church in Madison, followed by a panel with Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith leaders countering white Christian nationalism in Wisconsin and across the U.S. A slave Bible without Exodus While white Christian nationalism has been getting …

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Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge
2 years, 4 months ago

Resisting fascism and winning the education wars: How we can meet the challenge

Salon  

Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions and higher education are under siege. Increasingly, the utopian possibilities formerly associated with public and higher education as a public good capable of promoting social equality and supporting democracy have become too dangerous for the apostles of authoritarianism. Pedagogy is always political in …

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Illinois Gov. Pritzker unloads on DeSantis in blistering speech in Tampa
2 years, 5 months ago

Illinois Gov. Pritzker unloads on DeSantis in blistering speech in Tampa

Raw Story  

J.B. Pritzker delivered a blistering speech in Tampa Saturday equating Florida’s Republican Gov. Ultimately, we need a federal assault weapons ban,” the governor said, also calling for national attention to “an epidemic of young men enamored with white nationalism” killing people en masse with assault weapons.” Pritzker said the national Republican Party is “obsessed” with MAGA politics and weakening support …

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Liz Cheney says GOP colleagues 'enabled white supremacy and anti-semitism' after Buffalo shooting
2 years, 7 months ago

Liz Cheney says GOP colleagues 'enabled white supremacy and anti-semitism' after Buffalo shooting

Daily Mail  

Liz Cheney tore into her Republican colleagues on Monday for 'enabling white supremacy' after a racist gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing 10. 3 House GOP post, has been accused of pushing the 'great replacement' theory in her alleged anti-immigration stances – although never mentioning it by name Payton Gendron, 18, who is accused of …

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GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, Liz Cheney says
2 years, 7 months ago

GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, Liz Cheney says

NPR  

GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, Liz Cheney says Enlarge this image toggle caption Drew Angerer/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images In the wake of the Buffalo supermarket shooting, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is accusing her party's leaders of enabling white nationalism, white supremacy and antisemitism. Among them was New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who last May replaced Cheney — ousted …

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Historians to Trump: You're fired!
2 years, 8 months ago

Historians to Trump: You're fired!

Raw Story  

"The Trump presidency was not an aberration but the culmination of more than three decades in the GOP's evolution." Taylor's chapter is less about Trump's specific policies on race and more a historical analysis examining "how Trump's ascendance was rooted in the mainstream in the aftermath of the Black movement in the 1960s." International affairs and foreign policy Two of …

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The Road to Jan. 6: How 50 years of violent white nationalism inspired the Oath Keepers
2 years, 10 months ago

The Road to Jan. 6: How 50 years of violent white nationalism inspired the Oath Keepers

Raw Story  

The Jan. 13 filing of seditious conspiracy charges against 11 members of the Oath Keepers militia is one of the darkest and most important chapters in the history of right-wing extremism. They recited an oath he adopted from the one military officers and soldiers swear “to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” They …

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Richard Spencer tries to sanitize white nationalism as Charlottesville defendants stumble to the finish line
3 years, 1 month ago

Richard Spencer tries to sanitize white nationalism as Charlottesville defendants stumble to the finish line

Raw Story  

Richard Spencer pontificated on his belief in white nationalism and the lawyer for Matthew Heimbach played a YouTube video of the former Traditionalist Worker Party leader condemning "the international Jewish system" during their closing arguments on Thursday, as they defended themselves against conspiracy claims for their role in organizing the violent 2017 Unite the Right rally. RELATED: Unite the Right …

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Former GOP chair Michael Steele on saving his party after Trump: "Terraform" it, or destroy it?
3 years, 8 months ago

Former GOP chair Michael Steele on saving his party after Trump: "Terraform" it, or destroy it?

Salon  

Michael Steele is a man without a political party. Those were consistent with what we've seen — the party's recent embrace of white nationalism, sort of this fake populism that's born out of the Southern strategy of Richard Nixon in the 1960s. They don't want a nasty soundbite from Donald Trump, or a member of the Trump family or Lindsey …

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Marjorie Taylor-Greene's anti-Semitism is as American as apple pie (but Trump made it worse)
3 years, 10 months ago

Marjorie Taylor-Greene's anti-Semitism is as American as apple pie (but Trump made it worse)

Salon  

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, the Republican Party's latest right-wing lightning rod, has a long history of anti-Semitic remarks that the GOP leadership wants us to forget. This incident sprang back to mind this month as Republicans tried to figure out what to do about Greene, a particularly obnoxious Christian right-winger who has suggested that a "space laser" affiliated …

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White Nationalism Is Far Worse Than a 'Disease'
3 years, 10 months ago

White Nationalism Is Far Worse Than a 'Disease'

Wired  

In 2020, Condoleeza Rice wrote, “Our country has a birth defect: Africans and Europeans came to this country together—but one group was in chains.” After President Joe Biden addressed the need to “confront” and “defeat” white nationalist terrorism during his inaugural speech, the former secretary of state’s admission is more relevant than ever. Rice’s racism as a “birth defect” analogy …

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White Nationalism Is Stalking The Republican National Convention
4 years, 3 months ago

White Nationalism Is Stalking The Republican National Convention

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Just over a minute into the first speech of the Republican National Convention on Monday night, it became abundantly clear what the party has on offer this election cycle: rage, fear and eternal culture war. “Trump is the bodyguard of Western civilization,” said Charlie Kirk, the head of right-wing student organization Turning Point USA, using a popular …

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Finding the women of the White nationalist movement
4 years, 4 months ago

Finding the women of the White nationalist movement

CNN  

Washington CNN — Where are the women? A book that was incredibly useful in my research was Painter’s “The History of White People” – who’s defined as White in the American context. That stood out to me because there are people today who run White nationalist social media platforms and try to say: Well, I’m not in the Klan. When …

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