From: Ryan Grim [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 3:59 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Border Patrol says it will keep operating immigration checkpoints for
people fleeing Hurricane Harvey
There's cruel, and then there's this.
There's cruel, and then there's this.
Jim Burns, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, told The Intercept
this afternoon that “U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints in the path of Hurricane
Harvey in Texas will close as state highways close.” In other words, they'll be
open as long as highways are passable.
Our reporter Alex Emmons asked the question because CBP and ICE had put out
conflicting statements earlier, the result of what looked to be an unfinished
bureaucratic battle. Hopefully, for the sake of basic decency, that battle will
go on and they'll decide to do the right thing. Nobody should be forced to
choose between deportation and the risk of drowning in a hurricane. Story here.
For the past several months, we'd been working on a mini-documentary about the
rice of white supremacy online and its ongoing street battles with the antifa
movement (short for anti-fascist). We published it today. It's by Lee Fang and
Leighton Woodhouse, and well worth the watch this weekend. Comes in at about 20
minutes.
HOW WHITE NATIONALISM BECAME NORMAL ONLINE
By Lee Fang
ONE OF THE MOST shocking images from the “Unite the Right” rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11 was the spectacle of several hundred
young people taking up torches and marching in support of white nationalism.
The avalanche of media coverage that followed the murder of antiracist activist
Heather Heyer by far-right member James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old who
drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, has touched on many reasons
for the recent explosion in white supremacist organizing. The dehumanization of
marginalized groups, from immigrants to racial minorities to Muslims, has
played an increasingly overt role in mainstream conservative media and
Republican election campaigns, culminating in the open bigotry of Donald
Trump’s presidential bid. Many experts point to backlash against shifting
racial demographics, newly won rights for gays and lesbians, and the rising
economic power of women as other reasons to explain the growth of racist,
far-right organizations.
All of that is true as far as it goes. But the path for radicalization for many
young men also has particular roots in the online communities in which they
have forged their identities, only recently making the leap to the real-world
violence that has lasted all year. The Intercept has investigated the recent
phenomenon, exploring the dynamics of race, violence, and online culture in a
short documentary that can be viewed above.
In recent years, neo-Nazi groups, once confined to spreading their message
through marginal radio programs and small publishing houses, have turned to
video gaming forums; websites associated with ironic “alt-right” pranksters,
who espouse far-right ideologies grounded in white supremacy; and have blended
with the so-called “Men’s Rights Movement” to find new foot soldiers, many of
whom are the kind of disaffected young men who are ripe for recruitment into
extremist movements around the world. The dark humor that has flourished in
these forums, with their blurred and overlapping lines, sanitizes ideas of a
race war and genocide, featuring pitched battles between racial identities.
This online cauldron has been an important factor in fueling the growth of the
“alt-right” and adjacent white nationalist organizations.
Without understanding these cyber terrains, efforts to stymie white
nationalism’s growth are badly hindered.
FULL STORY AND VIDEO
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