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When women are the enemy: The intersection of misogyny and white supremacy

When women are the enemy: The intersection of misogyny and white supremacy

ABC News reports: Many questions remain in the motivations of the man who allegedly committed a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, last weekend, leaving nine dead before responding officers shot him to death. But officials briefed on the investigation told ABC News the suspected shooter demonstrated a misogyny that was far more extreme than any of his political leanings. In that, he follows a bleak pattern among mass shooters. “There are red flags,” Jacquelyn Campbell of the Johns Hopkins University…

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Why racism is at the heart of America’s gun inaction

Why racism is at the heart of America’s gun inaction

Jonathan Metzl says: So many aspects of American gun culture are really entwined with whiteness and white privilege. Carrying a gun in public has been coded as a white privilege. Advertisers have literally used words like “restoring your manly privilege” as a way of selling assault weapons to white men. In colonial America, landowners could carry guns, and they bestowed that right on to poor whites in order to quell uprisings from “Negroes” and Indians. John Brown’s raid was about…

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White supremacists look to remake the map of America

White supremacists look to remake the map of America

Casey Michel reports: When Dylann Roof, the white supremacist terrorist behind the 2015 Charleston massacre, issued his manifesto, he did so with a specific vision of America in mind. To Roof’s mind, the United States was his country — a white man’s nation, worth reclaiming through horrid bloodshed, done in the name of racial supremacy. To Roof, white supremacists could still conquer their country, even if they made up only a fraction of the population. Ideas that white people in…

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Norway mosque attack suspect ‘inspired by Christchurch and El Paso shootings’

Norway mosque attack suspect ‘inspired by Christchurch and El Paso shootings’

The Guardian reports: The suspected gunman in an attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday was inspired by recent white extremist attacks in New Zealand and the US, online posts suggest. Police in Norway have so far only said the attack in Baerum, a town 20km from Oslo, the capital, will be investigated as a possible act of terrorism. In messages posted on the day of the attack, Philip Manshaus, a 21-year-old man who has been named by local…

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White supremacist terrorism: Attacks thwarted in Florida and Nevada

White supremacist terrorism: Attacks thwarted in Florida and Nevada

ABC News reports: A Florida white supremacist has been arrested for threatening a shooting at a Walmart just days after 22 people were killed at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s modern history. Richard Clayton, 26, was arrested by Florida Department of Law Enforcement authorities on Friday in Winter Park after making an online threat last week, according to police. On Aug. 6, Clayton allegedly posted on Facebook, “3 more…

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