It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US by Alexander Laban Hinton
Author:Alexander Laban Hinton [Hinton, Alexander Laban]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Social Science, Anthropology, Cultural & Social, Political Science, Genocide & War Crimes, Human Rights, History, United States, 21st Century
ISBN: 9781479808014
Google: dWwDEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2021-06-08T04:00:00+00:00
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âwhite genocide.â The Daily Stormer, Anglin and Azzmadoreâs white power extremist website that had endorsed Trump, headlined âITâS
HAPPENING: Trump Tweets about WHITE GENOCIDE in South Af-
rica . . . This is a significant step in the right direction.â27
At other points, Trumpâs invocations of white genocide were more indirect, but still interpreted by white power extremists as racial dog whistles nevertheless. Indeed, one of Trumpâs central motifs, immigration, played on white genocide fears of invasion and replacement. These ideas were foregrounded in messaging from the start of Trumpâs political campaign, beginning with his stoking of the Obama birther conspiracy and warnings about Muslim and Latino invaders.
They were also clearly manifest in his campaign rally readings of âThe Snake,â which Trump also read at the 2018 meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). After touching on many of his usual issues, ranging from boasts about the greatness of his presidency to complaints about the âfake news,â Trump began talking about the dangers of immigration, including âcriminal aliensâ and the âsavageâ
and âanimal killersâ of the MS- 13 gang. âThink of it in terms of immigration,â Trump told the crowd. Just before he started reading, Trump repeated, âImmigration.â
Given Trumpâs framing, âThe Snakeâ serves as a parable of white genocide. Most abstractly, the âviciousâ snake signifies the dangerous nonwhite outsider who lurks without (on the other side of the border) and within (inside the country). If this idea is epitomized by âcriminal aliensâ and the MS- 13 gang, Trump applied it much more broadly in his rhetoric, including his 2018 midterm election depictions of immigrants as an âinfestationâ and his later description of predominantly Black Baltimore as ârat- infested.â
The dangerous âsnakeâ is counterposed to the innocence of the
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