{"id":382882,"date":"2018-10-29T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-must-pressure-mainstream-forces-to-stop-downplaying-the-far-right\/"},"modified":"2018-10-29T21:05:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T20:05:33","slug":"we-must-pressure-mainstream-forces-to-stop-downplaying-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-must-pressure-mainstream-forces-to-stop-downplaying-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"We Must Pressure Mainstream Forces to Stop Downplaying the Far Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Violence is a central component of the far right. It uses violence as an organizing tactic, it praises violence as a philosophical virtue, and its vision of society would require large-scale violence to usher in. There were 20 far right murders in 2017, in addition to numerous bombings and assaults. The three incidents last week \u2014 the murder of 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue; the mail-bombings of high-profile liberal figures; and an anti-Black double murder in Kentucky \u2014 constitute one of the largest bursts of far-right violence in the United States in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The three perpetrators each came from different parts of the far right and targeted different kinds of victims. Taken together, they illustrate how the far right\u2019s targets include a wide range of people, in terms of age, race, religion and gender. And they illustrate how violence is endemic to different factions of this movement, and not just limited to open white supremacists like neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, October 27, Robert Bowers allegedly entered a Pittsburgh synagogue and murdered 11 people aged 54 to 97, on their day of worship. He had an account on Gab, a Twitter-like social media network that\u2019s favored by the \u201calt-right.\u201d There he was a prolific anti-Semitic poster. His account\u2019s banner featured the numbers \u201c1488,\u201d a neo-Nazi alpha-numeric code.<\/p>\n<p>On the previous Thursday, October 25, Gregory Bush murdered two elderly Black shoppers in and near a Louisville, Kentucky, grocery store: Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vickie Lee Jones, 67. Confronted by an armed white man, Bush reportedly said, \u201cDon\u2019t shoot me and I won\u2019t shoot you\u201d because \u201cwhites don\u2019t kill whites.\u201d Just before the attack, Bush had tried to break into a Black church.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, throughout last week pipe bombs were mailed to 14 prominent liberal figures who are frequent targets of rage by the more mainstream far right, including Trump himself. The first was Jewish financier George Soros, who for years has been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/we-must-pressure-mainstream-forces-to-stop-downplaying-the-far-right\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence is a central component of the far right. It uses violence as an organizing tactic, it praises violence as a philosophical virtue, and its vision of society would require large-scale violence to usher in. There were 20 far right murders in 2017, in addition to numerous bombings and assaults. The three incidents last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}