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The origins of white
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Resistance is futile
A renewables revolution is afoot – but who will benefit?
LAST week, President Donald
Trump ordered the Department
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MANY of the increasing –
or perhaps just increasingly
voluble – numbers of people
in the West who self-describe
as white nationalists talk of
legitimate economic or social
grievances. They shouldn’t kid
themselves. They are part of
a movement that, at its most
violent fringes, is what it always
has been: pure racist thuggery.
As their poisonous ideology
infiltrates wider political
discourse, so these extremists
feel emboldened. In the UK,
security services claim to have
thwarted four far-right terrorist
plots in the past year.
To combat racist white
extremism, we must grasp its
roots. As studies of violent white
supremacists in the US show
(see page 34), these are often
different roots to those assumed
to underlie other forms of
terrorism. Rather than devotion
to the cause inspiring violence,
pre-existing emotional trauma
and a propensity to violence
find expression in the cause.
That in no way excuses any
crimes white supremacists may
commit. But by helping us to
understand society’s ugliest
elements, such research can
help society as a whole.
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