Fri, 20 May 2022
We're releasing our latest episode early this week in light of the recent tragedy in Buffalo. Please take care of yourselves.
The recent mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York left ten dead, three injured, and a city–and country–reeling. Within hours of the deadly attack, evidence emerged that the 18-year-old gunman’s crimes were racially motivated, explicitly targeting the area’s Black community.
Buffalo is the most recent in a string of high-profile acts of violence inspired by the “great replacement theory,” an extremist doctrine based on the unsubstantiated belief that non-white populations will “replace” and subjugate white majorities across the globe.
Once confined to the radical fringe, replacement theory has now entered mainstream conservative rhetoric, peddled by prominent right-wing figures like Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance, and shared in online networks from El Paso to Christchurch. On this week’s episode, Ray Suarez sits down with Daniel Byman, a counterterrorism expert and author of Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism, to discuss the roots of the global white power movement, how extremism spreads, and what the mainstreaming of violence as a political tactic means for targeted communities–and democracy–in the world today.
Guests:
Daniel Byman, Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution and professor at Georgetown University
Host(s):
Ray Suarez, co-host of World Affairs
Direct download: 5-23_World_Affairs_for_podcast_feed.mp3
Category:News & Politics -- posted at: 11:00am PDT |