When I googled for resources on reporting on movements, the top results were all related to livestock 😕 Which maybe explains why journalism is the way it is.
I spend so much of my time feeling very down about the state of this country and the world, but occasionally I scroll by an ad that makes me think that Stanley Tucci is just really winning at life right now and it makes me feel a little bit better.
My current obsession is how moral panics are exploited to seed extremist or fringe ideas into the mainstream. This is the first of what I hope will be many stories that explore this pattern.
www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1...
Do I, or do I not, finally deserve to eat the jumbo Kit Kat bar that's been hiding in the snack box since Halloween? All opinions entertained, but not necessarily given equal weight.
When the FBI developed its system to track hate crimes in the early '90s, it included a category for anti-Arab hate crimes. But that category was quietly dropped by the time it started releasing its reports. It wasn't reintroduced until 2015.
www.npr.org/2023/12/01/1...
A great deep dive into the records of Oath Keepers serving in the Chicago Police Dept. When @npr.org investigated in 2021, we found more members on that force than in the police depts of NYC and LA combined. Which should prompt some questions. graphics.suntimes.com/extremism-ra...
Folks - any recs on an expert who's studied the use of pop culture (think: racist Oi! music, internet memes, etc.) in mainstreaming extremist ideas or conspiracy theories? Thanks and thanks.
To everyone else who writes about extremism and has had this up on a browser tab since Friday morning, trying to figure out what, if anything, we can say about it... I see you.
