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Buffalo Massacre
An Act of White Nationalist Political Violence
By Political Research Associates
"The attack should be understood as an act of political violence, motivated by White nationalism and misogyny, and intended to provide a model for others to follow: a model that takes Black people in particular, and people of color more generally, as enemies that threaten White existence, and that positions Jews as the secret orchestrators of threats to White people. The shooter’s “manifesto” is not about personal “hatred” so much as a political ideology that defines Blacks—and Jews—as a racial enemy. He justifies this with a profound anti-Blackness that is expressed at length, incorporating memes and infographics from an array of White nationalist sources to “prove” the danger Blacks pose to White people as a group (and as a supposed nation), reproducing the usual “race realism” (i.e. “scientific racism”) talking points about White superiority, genes and I.Q., and race and crime. The screed gives explicit voice to ideas that linger in a much wider swath of the population, if generally in more coded forms."
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New from PRA
As Australia’s first Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, perhaps could not help but notice, the events of his first years in office had biblical connotations.
As former White nationalists try to reframe their identities, questions on whether to trust them, and what accountability for their actions look like, are still to be answered.
An excerpt from the book Power Concedes Nothing, edited by Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum, and María Poblet.
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New From Religion Dispatches
As legislators across the country consider passing stricter gun control laws, Thomas Lecaque writes on the Christian nationalist influence in the firearm industry as part of a culture of sanctified religious violence.
On May 22, a report on the Southern Baptist Convention showed that the SBC had covered up a familiar pattern of abuse. Chrissy Stroop and Jessica Johnson discussed the report for Religion Dispatches, its proposed solutions & shortcomings, and the growth of Christian nationalism.
A new poll from PRRI shows that 97% of the Unitarian Universalists support nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people. So when states pass laws suppressing rights for LGBTQ communities under the guise of "religious liberty," they are violating the religious freedoms of the Unitarian Universalists.
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