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Extremists' Rhetoric is Preparing the West for Mass Violence

Right-wing extremists’ rhetoric has saturated the political conversation, spreading far beyond its own minority parties and its bulwarks on the fringe. For a global community already facing mass displacement, war, and critical underdevelopment, their influence is preparing mainstream actors in the Global North to build walls, expel migrants, and contribute to mass atrocities. Our news cycles are flooded with stories of ongoing disasters. Ecological decay, war and conflict, and mass displacement are the defining issues of our contemporary history. While communities unravel in the face of these crises, privileged elements such as the middle classes and economic elite in the Global North live in comfortable isolation. Abstraction is unfortunately the only way for many of us to imagine frontline communities’ circumstances. Unfortunately, when that abstraction operates within mainstream ideological environments, it is vulnerable to the same manipulation and obfuscation which characteri
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