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EPISODE · May 21, 2022 · 17 MIN

Is the far-right ecosystem hiding in plain sight in the US?

from The Global Agora · host Andrej Matisak

On May 14th, 18-year-old Payton Gendron killed 10 people and wounded three; 11 of the 13 shot were Black residents and the attack took place in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Buffalo. The far-right terrorist wrote a manifesto connected to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and according to CNN just before the attack, he invited people to the chatroom at the messaging social platform Discord to discuss his act of racist violence. This chatroom included months of posts written by Gendron and the messages illustrated his white supremacist views and how he wanted to kill as many minority people as possible. But Gendron did not act in a vacuum. Is the far-right ecosystem hiding in plain sight in the US? And maybe not even hiding? I talked to Colin Clarke. He is a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center and Director of Policy and Research at The Soufan Group, where his research focuses on domestic and transnational terrorism, international security, and geopolitics. We discussed the far-right movement in the US and beyond. But we also talked about guns and Tucker Carlson. Listen to our conversation. And if enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! Thank you. https://ko-fi.com/amatisak

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