First, how do you define extremism . What exactly is it . Were talking about groups or sometimes even individuals who, their political views are really on the margins, on the extremes of the political spectrum, but not just that, but they also are militant in the way they promote their views, that means that they are engaging illegal activities as well as in many cases utilizing violence or violent practices to promote their goals. Now were going to talk about right wing extremism with you, later on left wing extremism. Can you tell me the difference or is there a difference between right wing extremism and left wing extremism . Yes. Well the difference is in the ideological ideas theyre trying to promote and when were talking about the far right, were talking about groups that want to promote privileges of specific groups. When talking about the u. S. , were talking about groups that want to restore or to maintain the privileges of white people, these are groups that oppose american s
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Host we are back and we will spend this next segment talking about right wing extremism in the United States. With us is author and university of massachusetts lowell professor Arie Perliger, who is the author of american zealot, inside right wing domestic terrorism. Good morning. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host lets frame this conversation how do you define first. Extremism . What exactly is it . Guest we are talking about a group or sometime individuals whose political views are on the margins, the extremities of the political spectrum. Not just that. They are also militant in the way they promote their views. That means that they are engaging in illegal activities as well as, in many cases, utilizing violence or violent practices to promote their goal. Host now, we are going to talk about right wing extremism with you. Later on we will talk about leftwing extremism. Can you tell me the difference or is there a diffe
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