Beacon of Liberty or Civil War (Community Matters)
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What Would Frederick Douglass say. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Peter Adler, David Louie and Chuck Crumpton.
'Posts and searches for the term 'civil war' have recently spiked on social media and podcasts as the midterm elections approach. And a White Christian nationalist movement, which insists that America was created to be a White, Christian nation, is growing in power.'
Stochastic terror — the idea that even if people in power don’t specifically call their followers to violence, by entertaining it as a legitimate tactic or by demonizing a political enemy on a platform capable of reaching millions of people, one of those millions will be inspired to violent action — provides a framework for understanding the current moment. But it’s impossible to know who’s going to perpetrate that violent act, where and how they’ll strike, or even who or what the target could be.
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