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Beyond the hate frame When systemic violence masquerades as hate and extremism 10 12 2022 4 pm et panelists ben lorber habiba farh and heron greenesmith

Beyond the Hate Frame: When Systemic Violence Masquerades As Hate and Extremism

A Roundtable Discussion



From the candidates in 2022 races carrying the mantle of the Far Right, to the treatment of anti-LGBTQ persecution as “phobia”, join PRA Research Analysts Ben Lorber, Habiba Farh, and Heron Greenesmith as they name and explore the language and policies that obscure purposeful and concerted programs of social order maintenance. In this conversation, they will answer the questions: “How does the designation of 'hate'–i.e. hate crimes, hate groups–and 'extremism' or 'fanaticism' perpetuate hegemonic oppression? And who benefits from this design?”


For security reasons, we will not be making the recording public until early 2023. A transcript is available for your reading.


Access the transcript here.

Featuring:

 

Ben Lorber: Ben Lorber works as a Research Analyst at PRA, focusing on white nationalism and antisemitism. Lorber has worked as a journalist, organizer and movement-builder for over a decade. Lorber has published on right-wing social movements, Israel/Palestine, Jewish culture and other topics at The Nation, Salon, The Jewish Daily Forward and more. He tweets at @BenLorber8.


Habiba Farh: Habiba Farh is a research analyst at Political Research Associates monitoring legislation and discourses addressing hate crimes, terrorism, and extremism. She joined PRA with nearly a decade of experience working with researchers, journalists, activists, and movement partners to address mass incarceration, surveillance, structural violence. Habiba has written on intergenerational political repression on historically marginalized communities in the U.S., Arab-American diasporic politics, U.S. foreign policy on the Middle East, and islamophobia and anti-Arab bigotry in American policy and law.


Heron Greenesmith: Heron Greenesmith, Esq. is a policy attorney with over a decade of LGBTQ advocacy experience. Currently monitoring anti-LGBTQ advocacy, movements, and leaders with PRA, Heron is also an adjunct Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, an Antibigotry Fellow with the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, and an Editorial Board Member at the Bulletin of Applied Trans Studies. Heron has written extensively on the disparities facing bisexual and pansexual people and how to remedy them through public policy advocacy. 


Moderated by Koki Mendis, PRA Communications Director.

Read the Transcript Here!

Resources and Readings

A Bid for Power: Mapping the Electoral Far Right in the 2022 Elections (2022) by Ben Lorber, Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann and Steven Gardiner


Antisemitism Meets Transphobia (2021) by Ben Lorber and Heron Greenesmith


Reconsidering Hate: A Forum on the "Hate" Frame in Policy, Politics, and Organizing (2012) by Kay Whitlock


Beyond the Hate Frame: An Interview with Kay Whitlock and Michael Bronski (2015) by Lindsay Beyerstein


Buffalo Massacre: An Act of White Nationalist Political Violence (2022) by Political Research Associates


At American Virtue Summit, Gen-Z White Nationalists and GOP Candidates Plot the Right's Future (2022) by Ben Lorber


A Room of Their Own: How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy (2020) by Heron Greenesmith