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Throughline · June 10, 2021 · 55m
The Rise of White Power
Throughline
The modern white power movement — its roots in the Vietnam War, its organizational structure, and how the internet transformed a fringe ideology into a mainstream political force.
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The hosts trace how the internet transformed white power from a fringe movement requiring physical meetings and mailed newsletters into a global recruitment network operating at the speed of social media.
Highlights
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The modern white power movement was organized by Vietnam veterans using military tactics
The hosts trace how Vietnam veterans brought military organizational skills, weapons training, and a sense of betrayal by government into the white power movement, transforming it from scattered extremists into a networked paramilitary force.Was this useful?