Arun Gupta: Dog-Whistling The Far-Right & The Stochastic-Terrorist-In-Chief
Channel: Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast
Date: 2020-06-27

This is a segment of episode #255 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Raising The Temperature: Far-Right Terror & The Stochastic-Terrorist-In-Chief w/ Arun Gupta.” Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/LBWgupta

Read Arun’s articles referenced in this interview, published at The Raw Story: https://bit.ly/316ySql / https://bit.ly/2VeVzF3 / https://bit.ly/2Z8fRB8

In this segment of my interview with journalist and activist Arun Gupta, we discuss several of his recent articles published at The Raw Story, addressing the rise of far-right violence by counter-protesters and agitators at dozens of Black Lives Matter protests over the past several weeks. In particular, we discuss what he addresses in his piece ‘Trump supporters are attacking and killing Black Lives Matter protesters — and getting away with it’:

“Since the police killing of George Floyd sparked unprecedented protests against systematic racism, at least four Trump supporters, including some involved in his 2016 campaign, have attacked Black Lives Matter protesters with weapons, leading to at least one death.

Disturbingly, perpetrators have been released or given light charges despite severely wounding and killing protesters. The real number of attacks by Trump supporters may be substantially higher as there have been hundreds of attacks, terrorist plots, and threats of violence by far-right forces against anti-racist protesters. Trump has encouraged the violence as well, fitting with his role as the stochastic-terrorist-in-chief for the last four years. These attacks are unlikely to be the last by Trump supporters against those protesting for racial justice.” (https://bit.ly/316ySql)

Arun Gupta is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York and has written for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, the Nation, The Intercept, Jacobin, The Progressive, Telesur English, and the Guardian. He is the author of the upcoming ‘Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Junk-Food-Loving Chef’s Inquiry into Taste’ (The New Press).

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