hi i'm tNUMBER_TOKENj follow me this video like all my videos would not be possible without my members and patrons including homies like taylor hartman a k logger headed doctor and hello desdemona if you'd like to support the channel you can become a homie yourself by clicking the join button below the video or by checking out my page on patreon so i said earlier that i think outwardly racist people are in the minority but that doesn't mean that they're evenly distributed across the population here's a hypothetical what if i challenged you to go on youtube and find a racist comment as fast as you can a speed run of sorts tough challenge i know what would be your strategy would you pick a channel at random or would you pick a specific type of channel to start with be honest my point is that you're probably more likely to find racists in some places than you are in other places and the question is what if many of america's law enforcement agencies are some of those places and if so why i touched on this a little bit in a video i did about a year ago but i wanted to explore it a little bit more now listen there is absolutely no shortage of individual cases of police officers being shown to have ties to white supremacist organizations i mean i could keep going there's so many like seriously this could be the whole video i find this pretty alarming personally and maybe some of you do too but one could still argue that those are individual cases they don't prove that there's a larger trend on their own perhaps these are those bad apples i keep hearing about by the way y'all do know the full saying is bad apples spoil the whole bunch right just saying the united states intelligence community including the fbi and the department of homeland security publishes reports every year detailing threats to the country both domestic and international and the threat of white supremacists neo-nazis and other far-right ideologies has been a common trend in those reports for decades to the extent that right-wing extremists are usually classified as the most dangerous domestic threat that this country faces and our hyper fixation on muslim extremists since NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN has often been credited with helping these racist movements grow under the radar but the activity within these groups has spiked since the rise and eventual presidency of donald trump from the deadly rally in charlottesville near the beginning of his presidency to the storming of the u.s capitol that marked the end of it now to be fair right wing extremists is a broad category that can include several different movements but there are usually some general overlaps like mistrust if not outright disdain for the federal government and straight white christian identity politics in a NUMBER_TOKEN report former homeland security secretary chad wolfe wrote that he was quote particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent targeted attacks in recent years and chad wolf if you didn't know not really a great dude he's one of the guys that orchestrated the separation of immigrant families during the trump administration and he was also the guy behind sending government forces to kidnap protesters in portland last year even that dude says he's
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