Can’t stop thinking about one death threat I received in November 2019.
The author quoted excerpts from the Christchurch manifesto to make it clear why I was targeted, and signed off with the 14 words.
How not shocking Ayanna Pressley and AOC appear to have been singled out.
Also in November 2019: people who monitor extremist networks online reached out to warn me that they’d seen my name and writings circulating on neo-Nazi forums.
They were talking about my work on the relationship - not the similarity, btw (this matters) ISIS and the far-right.
I’m going to link some of this material here: a thread of threads on ‘symbiotic extremism’ - the relationship between the far-right and ISIS.
It’s relevant to the Capitol. Why?
Their shared goals of social division and political polarization can’t be achieved by one alone.
It’s not a coincidence that Ayanna Pressley and AOC appear to have been singled out at the Capitol. And don’t be shocked to add Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to the list.
If you’re interested in the Capitol events, you might want to read up on the sedition / conspiracy case against the Order in 1988.
Reagan’s DOJ was wholly uninterested in prosecuting white supremacist attacks until they started killing cops.
Just may be instructive.
The Order had ties to other white supremacist groups and leaders, including Louis Beam - who pioneered “leaderless resistance,” as well as “Tom Metzger,” who started advocating infiltration of establishments like police, law, and government in the early 1980s.
Ignored history.
This period in American history is forgotten, downplayed, and ignored - when it’s much more influential than you know.
David Duke, for example, of the Third Klan, is the Richard Spencer / alt-right’s predecessor in leveraging “articulateness” and charm for media.
[Feel free to incorporate any ^^ info in your own work, analysts, media people & academic followers
I don't need credit, but if you're employed - I'm not.
It might help me get paid for the warnings I'm prescient about. I'd like to eat while doing this.]
[To be crystal clear, I don't mean patreon.
I meant I'm currently on the job market.
I care way more about the ideas circulating and people taking heed than credit, but I'm job hunting - so passing my name along for opportunities you see would be great.]