WBEZ Chicago: “The Violent Consequences of Anti-Semitic Bigotry”
In the aftermath of the tragic murders at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the racially motivated murders at a Kentucky Walmart, and attempted pipe-bombings - all by self-identified White supremacists, many are searching for the causes. “The damage done by conspiracy and vigilante violence alters the fabric of democracy, and our collective capacity to understand what is going on in our world, to trust each other. The degradation of politics and attacks on the vulnerable, now proliferating, did not start with Donald Trump, but he rides its wave,” this according to a recent analysis by Steven Gardiner, titled The Violent Consequences of Anti-Semitic An attitude toward social identities that can be mobilized to justify discrimination, state/vigilante violence, and exploitation. Learn more . Gardiner is a senior research analyst for Political Research Associates, a research think tank. He’s also anthropology adjunct professor at the University of Louisville. Gardiner will has researched and wrote on the politics of bigotry, violence, & A form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or group of close allies. Learn more , since the 1990s. He joins us to discuss the domino-effect of anti-Semitism and An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more on our culture.