Cynthia Miller-Idriss
sociologist @AmericanU, senior fellow @C4ARR, tweets on extremist youth cultures, hate groups, higher educ, a little education, parenting, caregiving
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The far right’s weaponisation of history
At the age of twelve, my classics class at the high school devoted an entire week to the ancient war between the Persian Empire and Athens. We were told that the battle of Marathon and Salamis (490 and 480 BCE) represented civilisational encounters...
Acting Secretary McAleenan Announces Establishment of DHS Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention
WASHINGTON – On April 19, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan released the following statement on the establishment of the new DHS Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention:
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Acting Secretary McAleenan Announces Establishment of DHS Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention | Homeland Security
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The Radical Right Chewbacca Defence: Why it does not matter if the radical right is lying to the working class that voted them into power
The Austrian populist radical right party FPÖ is consistently deciding on policies that are disadvantageous for the working class – yet the party can count on workers’ votes in elections. The same is true across Europe, and has been for a while....
The U.S. Now Ranks As A 'Problematic' Place For Journalists
"Never before have US journalists been subjected to so many death threats," Reporters Without Borders said in its annual World Press Freedom Index. President Trump "exacerbates" problems, it added.
Public Thinker: Kathleen Belew on the Rise of “White Power”
Kathleen Belew is an international authority on the white-power movement ...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss
great int w/@kathleen_belew calling white power mvmt “inherently anti-American project” whose aim to “create a united white polity” & “eradicate people of color” is “a revolutionary challenge to the United States itself.”h/t @cmpascale
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Why Good Friday was dangerous for Jews in the Middle Ages and how that changed
On Good Friday, Christians give thanks for their salvation, which they believe was made possible by the suffering of Jesus. But for Jews, it was common in the Middle Ages to be attacked with stones.
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Excellent discussion here tracing the use of the Gospel of John’s version which “persistently uses the phrase ‘the Jews’ to describe those who conspired to kill Jesus.” This “shifted the blame” for Jesus’ death “to the Jewish people as a whole.”2/5
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In which countries are people kindest to strangers?
More people than ever before are carrying out random acts of kindness towards strangers.
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dose of optimism: people are kindest in places undergoing the most stress:
“in ...fragile civil societies ...greater need among the population encourages more people to be responsive out of sheer necessity”
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Memes of Hate: Countering Cyber Islamophobia
Linking hate speech or extreme language with humor looks disturbing, since it is assumed that prejudice, intolerance and fanaticism are humorless per se.
Facebook bans far right groups and leaders
A dozen named groups and individuals will be purged from the social network, it said.
Memes of Hate: Countering Cyber Islamophobia
Linking hate speech or extreme language with humor looks disturbing, since it is assumed that prejudice, intolerance and fanaticism are humorless per se. Memes have a frequent presence in our daily lives. They flood our timelines on different social...
White Supremacists Embrace "Accelerationism"
Accelerationism is a term white supremacists have assigned to their desire to hasten the collapse of society as we know it.
Fashion brand 'FUCT' seeks trademark help from Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Erik Brunetti's four-letter fashion brand starts with an "F'' and rhymes with "duct." The federal government calls it "scandalous" and "immoral" and has refused to register the...
The Crusades in the Modern World: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Two, 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge
Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly-emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and...
Britain Alone: The self-inflicted darkest hour
In today’s CARR insights blog, Senior Fellow Professor Ruth Wodak is interviewed by the Another Europe podcast team – looking at Britain’s relationship with Europe. As the extension is granted, but with no end in sight to the parliamentary deadlock,...
Notre Dame Cathedral fire threatens to wipe out 'transcendental' cultural treasure
"It is bone-chilling. It is heartbreaking," a veteran architectural historian said of the blaze.
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My heart breaks for Paris, for France, at the loss of a cultural masterpiece, a historic and holy place. Praying there are no injuries, that the hundreds of firefighters battling the blaze stay safe and that this was just a terrible, terrible accident.
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White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It's Time to Reclaim the Real History
Real Viking society was multicultural and multiracial. So where does the white supremacist vision of their genealogy come from?
‘What we’re trying to teach is empathy’: The grassroots strategies to de-radicalize the far right
The Trump administration has fallen woefully short in dealing with the threat. That's where these groups come in.
The Extreme Gone Mainstream
Miller-Idriss explores how extremist ideologies have entered mainstream German culture through commercialized products and clothing laced with extremist, anti-Semitic, racist, and nationalist coded sy...
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In flight, headed to San Francisco to #CIES and Berkeley for a talk Thursday Apr 18 on The Extreme Gone Mainstream-- please join! @PrincetonUPress @JuliaHaav
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Houston police chief hits order to deport child without family: 'Nazis enforced their laws as well'
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Friday blasted a recent immigration order, likely triggered by accident during the government shutdown, to deport an 11-year-old migrant girl without her family.