political violence

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  1/5/2021
  

  The Dangerous “Patriotism” of the January 6 Insurrection

  by Ben Railton

  The participants in the attack on the Capitol a year ago reflected a "mythic patriotism" founded on the belief in an authentic, white, Christian nation under attack by enemies dangerous enough to justify any measures in opposition. 

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  1/5/2022
  

  Kathleen Belew: Is Trump Laying Groundwork for a 2024 Coup?

  Historian Kathleen Belew joins Hari Sreenivasan and Bill Moyers to discuss a new documentary, "Preserving Democracy." 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/6/2022
  

  Militias Were Hiding in Plain Sight Before 1/6. They're Still a Threat

  by Kathleen Belew

  The January 6 attack on the Capitol and the election results was not a one-off coup attempt; it was a recruitment event for the militant far right which increasingly threatens democracy.

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• 1/6/2021
  

  A Year Later: Our Tattered and Fragile Democracy

  by James D. Zirin

  American political institutions face a crisis: can they defend themselves against a growing movement that will deploy violence to achieve its goals, or will January 6 become the new normal? 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/17/2021
  

  America as a Tactical Gun Culture

  by Chad Kautzer

  "Vigilantism is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one’s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/10/2021
  

  Worst Isn't Over for Political Violence in Rhetoric or Action

  by Joanne Freeman

  "Here’s the problem, and it’s foreboding: If a line is crossed, and the occasion passes unacknowledged, was there really a line?"

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/9/2021
  

  White Allies of Racial Justice Movements Have Long Been Targets

  by David A. Love

  "White supremacists have long singled out White allies of civil rights and racial justice movements — and the state has failed to defend them when they’ve sided with Black activists."

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• SOURCE: WYPR
  12/8/2021
  

  Kathleen Belew on Her "Field Guide to White Supremacy"

  Belew discusses the impact of the Charlottesville civil lawsuit verdict, the ongoing prosecutions of Capitol rioters, and the ongoing problem of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist organizations. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/28/2021
  

  Joanne Freeman: Violent Rhetoric in Congress is Meant to Intimidate Enemies Into Silence

  "I suppose that’s what we’re going to see now; the person who does that kind of bullying and that kind of threatening gets a good degree of support for it."

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  11/17/2021
  

  Gosar's Video No Joke; Displays the Violent Impulses in the GOP

  by Jean Guerrero

  Jason Stanley offers context on the normalization of violence through political rhetoric. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/10/2021
  

  Framing Political Violence as Patriotism is Even More Dangerous Than it Sounds

  by Jeremy Best

  The Republican Party has agreed to label the Capitol rioters of January 6 as patriots resisting a dubious (if not stolen) election result. This is a step toward endorsing more political violence and endangering democratic government.

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  10/30/2021
  

  It's not Just the Missionaries: Haiti had 782 Kidnappings This Year

  by Cécile Accilien

  "The kidnapping business is in fact supported by the convergence of interests of the political and business elite and the international community, while the interests of the vast majority of Haitians are obviously not taken into account."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/26/2021
  

  Gun Culture is Priming Americans for Authoritarianism

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  American gun culture devalues human life, desensitizes us to the presence of deadly force in our daily lives, and underlines the message that our fellow citizens are dangerous enemies.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/4/2021
  

  Searching for Descendants of Racist Terrorism

  Wilmington, North Carolina resident Tim Pinnick has partnered with the Equal Justice Initiative and numerous volunteers to try to locate every living descendant of the victims of the white supremacist coup that overthrew the city's biracial government in 1898. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/13/2021
  

  Bouie: America Punishes Only a Certain Kind of Rebel

  by Jamelle Bouie

  Impunity for the leaders of the Confederacy enabled the bloody overthrow of Reconstruction and the reestablishment of white supremacy. The mistake must not be repeated for the January 6 riots. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  

  The Story of January 6 Will be Told

  by Julian Zelizer

  Republican obstructionism makes it likely that the full story of the January 6 attack on the Capitol and the election certification will be told in popular culture. 

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• 5/30/2021
  

  In 1844, Nativist Protestants Burned Churches in the Name of Religious Liberty

  by Zachary M. Schrag

  Rick Santorum's dismissive take on Native American history led to his ouster at CNN. But his remarks also glossed over a violent history of Protestant intolerance that should be a warning to us today about the danger of the idea that only one creed is truly American.

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• 5/23/2021
  

  Political Riots are an All-American Phenomenon (But Ignoring them Shouldn't Be)

  by Ron Steinman

  The partisan resistance to the formation of a commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection echoes the official indifference to the race riots that overthrew Reconstruction; the nation needs the truth and needs accountability.

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• 5/2/2021
  

  Elijah Lovejoy Faced Down Violent Mobs to Champion Abolition and the Free Press

  by Ken Ellingwood

  In 1837, Elijah Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob in Illinois, and the press he used to publish his abolitionist newsletter was thrown into the Mississippi River. Lovejoy's championing of both abolition and the free press should inspire us today. 

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• SOURCE: BBC
  4/28/2021
  

  France Arrests Ex-Members of Italy Extremist group Red Brigades

  Alleged members of the leftist terror group had been harbored in France under policies of its former Socialist president François Mitterand, with the proviso that such sanctuary was only for those who had not been involved in violence.