equal rights for whooits. 21st century government anticon spir ri civil has a post modern view of various radical lymphs of a deep distrust of the government. joining us is mark potok. mark, thanks for joining us. we ve had you on before to talk about the rise of hate speech. the idea that tamerlan may have been influenced and motivated by some of the stuff that s happening here in terms of far right conservative fringe movements is fairly shocking. tell us, if you will, a little bit about the rise of hate groups in the past. we re seen an enormous rise in hate groups and patriot groups and militias dating back to when barack obama first appeared on the political scene in the united states in the fall of 2008. starting right then we really saw these groups start to expand very rapidly. i think largely in response to
just in the way that the kind of mainstream left and right come together on some points, prison reform, legalization, whatever, some of these nuttier conspiracy theorists come around, it s in the a spectrum anymore. tamerlan listened to some different bands, etc., that would be more associated with the far, far left talking about the conspiracy to put fluoride in the water. right. who did 9/11. right. you don t want to call any of these things left or right because it discredits the whole idea of a left or right but they are more associated with the left, those particular ones, chem trails. the free press is more aligned with conservative no question. the left. about it. the implications. we were just talking about edward snowden, jared. even when the political center is vehemently antiwashington and revelations like those brought ford by snowden lead moderates to distrust the government, the fringes seem more appealing.
the idea that the united states is becoming less white, is demographically not going to be dominated by whites as it has been for most of its history. listening to what to the what tamerlan tsarnaev read and so on, i think what it shows you in part is that these guys were significantly more americanized than many of us thought. they had very much gone down the kind of rabbit hole of conspiracy thinking and absorbed all kinds of ideas, you know, the world is not as it seems and so on. that s a very american preoccupation. mark, it s sort of an interesting confluence. we talk about this happening in some sectors of the american political scene, which is the dove tailing between sort of a radical libertarian agenda and a sort of southern racist post neoconfederate attitude towards governance and that view
the charges come after 20-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev pled not guilty to 30 charges, including the use of weapons of mass destruction. but the bombing suspects may not have been the radical jihadists they were initially believed to be. older brother tamerlan tsarnaev was reportedly a fan of far right wing conspiracy theorist, alex jones, this guy. i m here to warn people. you tell me to shut up. this isn t a game. our government, the u.s. is building fema camps. you re watching the sunday politics. we have an idiot on the program today. coming up we will not stop the republic. humanity is awakening. today alex jones youtube channel has over 300 million views. according to the wall street journal, tsarnaev also read white supremacist publications including the first freedom an alabama based paper that says
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