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they can find their back knowing ahead they are. in less than a year the united states has seen to it that deadliest white supremacist attacks in its recent history were born far out. in october of 2018 a gunman murdered 11 jewish worshipers at the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania. talked about. then in august 22 people were shot dead in an attempt to kill as many latinos as possible in el paso texas. just 9 months apart these attacks were connected through the ideology of white

supremacy and only read gradually and i think we all come to realize how extensive this underground network is of people who have bought into this hateful belief system. those things are being nurtured by our president and his language and actually stoked it comes license to people like the shooter to do violence against communities. to pittsburgh suspect was critical of donald trump and they'll pass so shooter distance himself from the president in his manifesto. but both men frame their actions as responses to crises real or imagined that the president has amplified even echoing his language about minorities and immigrants out of florida rally and may the president return. horribly asked the crowd what he should do with migrants who cross the border but how do you stop these maybe one of the president's supporters yelled secure them and the president left that's only in the

panhandle you can get away with that. in the wake of these shootings conservative pundits with large platforms have also come under scrutiny white supremacy that's the problem this is a hoax it's a conspiracy theory used to divide the country and keep a hold on power as if the president if it could have been here and it wasn't like watching our wall leaders sit passively back as the invasion continues the number one conservative media for us in the united states is fox news to their trustworthy our country is being stolen. in this episode of faultlines we examine the ideology behind these recent attacks. and how this racist discourse is seeping into the mainstream.

i just remember hearing a lot of people screaming for help screaming for the end united states then i really see the sun and hear the helicopters and then after all she's basically cheese laying down. and praying that he wouldn't kill my daughter. and between few went through to the same door that she was and. on august 3rd louise kelly field was at a wal-mart store in el paso texas when a 21 year old white supremacist opened fire. luis a u.s. army veteran was shot 5 times so when he shot me i turned around 1st to direction but i heard the shots from and that's when i saw men in the weapon that he was carrying he was and say nothing he was just shooting randomly. after 5 surgeries in more than 2 months in the hospital luis has finally made it home. grown. invite everyone to come over.

on the day of the attack the reason his family went to wal-mart to promote a fundraiser for his 10 year old daughter soccer team. 5 of the parents were shot. all the girls escaped but when the waist woke up he learned that his father or his garcia was among the 22 people murdered that day. when i was sedated i had asked about my dad and they told me what had happened to him and that i just cried a lot that i just cried and cried and cried but when i woke up i mean i knew that he wasn't around us anymore. i wasn't there to say the last goodbye i was in there and he got cremated. i was just came out after i woke up right say hi guys. i got to come support diverted to come support. very god existing that if

it would end i would have created out that facebook like my god they're right because he didn't know anything about the fund raiser. he might have been alive still and it's it just sucks you know. god out witnesses described the gunman passing over some of the white customers while targeting anyone who booked latino to him. after the shooting the way he said his wife marcella read the gunman's manifesto searching for answers you read it in the internet while this is happening because for president don't fly and because of everything that he saying because everything that he he simply wants an end to this you might say i mean you put one way or the other you're not going go there almost as warm as what he says texas and they show no hispanics and that hispanics that were taking over the jobs that were taking over everything our president makes it seem like that every person

across the bridge is a criminal and if that's not the case the criminals come from here and look what they do. the number of hate crime murders last year was the highest in over 20 years according to f.b.i. data. over the years black americans have faced the most frequent incidents of hate crimes and 2018 saw an increase in the targeting of latinos. dr cathleen blue studies the history the white power movement in america these aren't just one off events they are part of a rising wave of action and these activists share a common set of ideologies symbols phrases and kind of modes of action that connect them with one another now that's important not only to understand the meaning of each of these acts of violence but to connect them together as part of a movement would prove not the manifesto from the past so shooter and i don't want to give him a platform but is this white supremacy i know that the media will probably call me

a white supremacist anyway and blame traps rhetoric the media is infamous for fake news he says immediately repeating trump's rhetoric also has a lot of highly symbolic coded phrases that would be familiar to somebody in this movement so like hispanic invasion of texas the replacement invasion replacement this is become popular recently and it's another example of this idea of the white race being overrun by other people invasion is now attached to this idea of replacement and invasion of immigrants has to do with the feeling of being overrun by people of color if you look at the moment in which the both of those attacked attacks happened they both came on the back of president trump voicing very loudly his opinion that this century there was an invasion going on to the united states this is an invasion when you see these caravans starting out with 20000 people that's an invasion i was badly criticized for using the word invasion it's an

invasion there's no question that trims words influence them and there's no question that trump was influenced by the work of tucker carlson and others at fox news this is not immigration immigration happens with the consent of the host country this is happening by force without our consent what's happening at the border is a flat out invasion we are being overwhelmed every day calling in. but an invasion at this point is just not being honest with people tonight a system wide meltdown at our so their border this is real democrats who want to replace you the american voters with newly amnestied citizens their political success does not depend on good policies but on demographic replacement some people call it an invasion it's like an invasion is it particularly dangerous when the president tonight states so frequently uses the word invasion and then it's validated by every anchor on your favorite news channel there's a real big difference between taking up

a gun and following this rhetoric to its farthest implication but those activists look for opportunities to use and weaponize whatever is in the prevailing culture trump condemn the attacks in pittsburgh and paso 2 days after a past so he read a prepared speech from the white house good morning in one voice our nation must condemn racism bigotry and white supremacy these sinister ideologies must be defeated. the white house did not respond to our request for comment. a month after the wal-mart attack national lawmakers hosted a hearing in el paso examining the relationship between anti immigrant rhetoric and domestic terrorism no republican members of congress attended unfortunately it is only 2 fitting that this hearing is being held in el paso

a place that has had $2.00 and $2.00 are the target painted on our backs because of anti immigrant rhetoric and the rhetoric has only escalated over time for many of us those words have become a matter of life and. can you draw a through line between the rhetoric of president trump and the conservative media in america to what happened here in el paso obviously the actions that that individual talk or his actions his responsibility but there is also a direct line from the rhetoric that we've heard from the president. calling immigrants thugs and rapists invaders infestation of this country. the them right here in his own manifesto you some of the same terms practically quoted it. it's been just over a year since a white supremacist opened fire in pittsburgh tree of life synagogue and what they

came the deadliest attack on jews in american history. the perpetrator legibly targeted the synagogue because one of the congregations there had hosted a service in support of immigrants calling it a refugee ship but. it was part of a national project spearheaded by highest a global jewish nonprofit that aids refugees and it started out as the jewish immigrant. and it was helping people like my grandparents come from russia and it was helping jews they now say we used to help immigrants because they were jews now we help immigrants because we are jews. carolyn eve and donna are leaders of door had dosh one of the 3 jewish congregations targeted at the synagogue that day. before the attack the alleged shooter posted online

highest likes to bring him baiters and to kill our people i can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered screw your optics i'm going got the new the address unfortunately from his website because he was listed as a congregation that was participating at the national refugee chabad and i found that out. talk about my heart sank and that it was in comprehensible still in comprehensible something will carry with us your list of doing something that you thought was a nice and totally harmless activity likely. that it would. lead this man to the door is horrific i've always believed in social justice human rights and it's what i do i never whine that to hurt anyone else or lead to anyone else being hurt so it's you know it's. something that i

struggle with though is that you know something our small committee did. and was supported by their congregation led to this man coming and killing 11 souls. and let me just correct you chris we've got this conversation. and what you did not lead to. there were many things that led to this man coming nobody would have wanted us to disassociate ourselves with high. and we know that this man ringback simply hated jews and he was looking for jews to kill if it hadn't been us it would have been others and it was only as we as the press dug further into his social media that i began to realize and all of us again how much he was involved in this whole underground network. of white supremacy of hate

and how much that is at its core also a deeply antisymmetric belief system in which the jews are behind everything somehow. in the white power movement jewish people are seen as part of a corrupt international global elite that dominates the united states and is bent on the eradication of the white race in the tree of life shooting we even have a clear example of that connection because the attacker talked about the relationship between that synagogue and efforts to help refugees and to. help with aid to people coming into the nation in the weeks leading up to the shooting president and conservative media figures focused on a caravan a migrants trying to legally claim asylum at the u.s. southern border we watched another migrant caravan snake its way up from central america it's a caravan it's an invasion and we are getting some really bad characters coming

into this country to president bush to claim that so-called a no middle easterners have infiltrated the caravans and certainly you have people coming up through the southern border. from the middle east and other places that are not appropriate for our country but even what i says even one poison pill is too many in a caravan i fear is that some of them are radical islamist terrorists where are they from who brought them here why are they coming here also furthered a debunked conspiracy theory that the caravan was funded by billionaire george soros a frequent target of the semitic attacks by the right who do you think is behind these caravans a lot of speculation that is george sure as you can tell the democrats george soros and the angry mob that's coming here are you we've got caught in the right way like everyone else or be ready to face the military and the right to request asylum at the u.s. border is protected under both u.s. and international law so it's oktober 2018 it's right before the midterms and he

starts to whip the public up into this frenzy by using the migrant caravan you've got some people on those groups you've got some tough people and those something that happens all the time that is never a story and he decided to make it a story it was all anybody could talk about and it became. a means for him to whip up his base into this idea of invasion into this idea of of people pouring across the border and that the only way to stop them is to have his you know his his war will trump get the funding for his wall will the mass migration from other poor countries in central america be stopped at all ever the white house has vowed to stop this caravan using the armed forces if necessary but it keeps coming and so it was it was a rallying cry for the people on the very fringes on the very far right that they needed to take it upon themselves to go and be on the front lines and stop this

from happening and what fox does is create that final sense of why it's happening and it's happening now and so what took place with the tree of life is they spent so many weeks hammering home not just that it was happening but that nobody was doing anything about it fox news again came under scrutiny after the past of shooting. and a number of companies even which are their advertisements for tucker carlson show so this is one of the things that tucker carlson said immediately after the shooting you know. that white supremacy was a hoax if you were to assemble a list a hierarchy of concerns or problems this country faces why wouldn't white supremacy be honest right up there with russia probably it's actually not a real problem in america white supremacy that's the problem this is a hoax just like the russian hoax what's amazing about this in particular is that they call he calls this a hoax which we know is not true but every bit of data ringback says that right

wing extremism and white supremacy is committing more acts of terrorism and committing more acts of murder in the states then any other form of political terror president trump and fox news have an unusually close relationship since trump came into office at least 20 people have worked both for his administration and fox news and again doctors been very good i have to say. mark really great talker we know that he watches tucker carlson we know he retreats in all the time and there are like people done research showing that like the story will pop up on the far right side like in fire was talk of collison will decide to do a segment on it and minutes later the president trump will stop tweeting about the very same issue that tucker carlson just did a show on. fox news declined our request for interviews with 2 of the most prominent hosts tucker carlson and laura ingram. they've said this in the fischel

on the record statement from fox news says fox news tonight is all forms of racism and the defamatory reckless accusations about our hosts are both they're responsible and dangerous. for 17 years straight fox news has been the most watched cable news network in america. and is consistently home to 4 of the top 5 cable news programs in the country number 2 on that list as tucker carlson show we'll one more shot here to try to talk to tucker and it's we believe we have a cell phone so we're going to give him a call and listen if we can't get him on the line. oh golly protector carlson is this josh rushing with faultlines on al-jazeera. just sound so i'm actually standing out in front of fox news just hoping to talk to you. judge after each and i. say.

this is what i mean i have an hour long live show you do it speaks. nothing. but we've watched a lot of your show well what i mean is like down in el paso there are people who say that they feel like they you in the right your rhetoric to target on their back . yeah. yes. well i think that these are the people who are survived the shooting say that they feel like there's a target on the back because of the kind of rhetoric that you put out on a nightly basis what would you say to them not to me but to the. arsonist. but i. suppose. that's that's when you're struck down you're picking the guy up fox you can tell him that you want to sit down and talk right i mean you have like the biggest program on there for a young audience the only growing program on there i think the president united states stands up and says your name lavishly praises your name. tucker.

22 people that got killed here in the past so that was not a hoax was untrue and who killed all those people somebody that believed in those i.d.'s so how can it be a hoax. for somebody that has bodyguards but for us now even going into a store is dangerous. we don't know when the next cycle is going to show up or what minds he could've awakened you know another little kid wants to call him and follow the steps or do something worse the bigger. friends won't we will soon come to believe you know if you want to vote after they'll pass to attack the new york times reported that in the previous 7 months

president trump campaign could run at least 2000 facebook ads with the word invasion. that we saw not just that fox news ramped up the attacks but then obviously the trump campaign started running thousands of facebook ads. since the shooting his campaign is spent over a $1000000.00 on immigration related facebook ads. more than on any other political issue this year i think trump and fox news see what happened in el paso as unfortunate but sort of something that's going to happen when you launch a campaign like this they see the political benefits of of making americans terrified about immigrants coming into this country and using that as a rallying cry they want to have drugs pouring into our country you have to have a wall and you have to stop it we don't want dangerous criminal aliens roaming free

in north carolina we want to take care of the. and so when i think about what happened over the summer and how the very next day they doubled down on that not just the terminology but the warnings behind it they understand now that that is a tool in their tool kit and worse that it's probably that one of their most effective ones in this moment they labeled i mean you know they're running the drug they're doing out and about and that's what you see general graphic quick demographic changes nearly it can get very dangerous for them and had you looked at all the people to me you know you. think they've been raped you will let them come let them come in leaving you know most of the president like you know all this sort of a got out of there you do what you do you have a lot to the concepts you can't do anything no what we've seen is we've seen trump go back to his playbook as he launches his campaign for 2020 i mean he launched his

his campaign by calling mexican immigrants rapists and murderers 1st literally at his 1st press conference so that's been his message all along it's really important that people start realizing if you characterize people as it is as criminals and faders and bad or as you talk about shoes in particular ways it invokes fear in people people get so afraid and not just people being shot but people being treated differently differently all over the country. as the 2020 presidential election looms the nation's attention will be on president trump the words he uses in the power to carry if you have the largest pop form on the planet and you decide to use that to amplify the white supremacist ideas then whether you are

a racist or not whether you are truly racist or not is is kind of moot there's always been. racism always in this country but i think since trump got to be president it's acceptable to be racist and the president is a racist so now it's acceptable to be a racist. in league with racists or you are truly racist yourself but in terms of the impact of what you are saying and doing it doesn't really matter and he seen the consequences and he doesn't care. he sees the consequences thank you still the care to protect your family your much to feed open borders and by the way we're building that wall and it's gone up or on. our own.

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