How QAnon Will Outlive 8Chan
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Wire The infamous imageboard 8chan went off the internet last week after a white-supremacist shooter killed 22 people in El Paso, and a manifesto he’d written was posted on the site. It was the third time in under five months that a racist shooter’s writing or media had appeared on the imageboard. While…
Republicans Already Had a Chance to Address White Supremacy. They Failed.
Republicans used an April congressional hearing on white extremism to defend President Donald Trump’s claim that there were “very fine people on both sides” of the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Hours after a racist, anti-immigrant fanatic carried out a gruesome massacre in El Paso, Texas Land Commissioner George P.…
Video Games Have Nothing to Do With Mass Shootings. But Gamers Kinda Do.
Mourners pray beside crosses with the names of victims who died in the El Paso, Texas, shooting on Saturday.MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images In the wake of consecutive mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Republican politicians went rummaging through the dated bargain bin of excuses for gun violence and latched on to a familiar…
Meet the Extreme Nativists Guiding Our Immigration Policy
President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in El Paso, Texas on February 11, 2019.Joe Raedle/Getty Images It may be difficult to remember now, but there was once a time when nativism was a relatively fringe ideology. Forty years ago, a Michigan ophthalmologist turned political activist named John Tanton pioneered a movement that sought to rebrand…