Contrarian X PERIL Bill Braniff on Trump’s Government and White Supremacy

ICE, DHS, and other government-run social media channels are continuously, and explicitly, referencing white supremacist dogma, songs, imagery, and phrases. For example, last October, the Homeland Security account on X posted a single word: “remigrate.” Remigration is a white supremacist concept of forcible, mass deportation of non-whites as a tool of ethnic cleansing.

Bill Braniff, the Executive Director of the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), joins Jen to explain just how troublesome the adoption of far-right rhetoric from the the United States government is. Braniff notes that the adoption of this language creates a permission structure for Neo-Nazis and extremists to act on their hateful ideology. Will America be able to curb the effects of hateful extremism? That remains to be seen.

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