That’s what a former governor claimed in addressing the murder of an Ethiopian immigrant by racist skinheads thirty-five years ago. Elinor Langer knew different. This week Norm Diamond talks with Elinor about her 2003 book, One Hundred Little Hitlers, The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America.
people on both sides, some of y all believed him. but now that it happened at the capitol, it s oh my goodness, they need to go to jail. we told you they needed to go to jail here and they didn t go to jail. charlottesville could have did the right thing and made such a big statement. and they didn t. charlottesville failed us. and then after charlottesville failed us, our president failed us. the movement was always a pat. that the alt right was used to set a new standard for what was acceptable in america. and as soon as donald trump said both sides, that anchored the new standard. now this is just business as usual. i think that the alt right they stopped their activism. but really they worn out their
charlottesville is a success? this is our speaker for the night. did you do it on purpose and do you feel bad about it? it would have been better if they [ bleep ] me and shut the [ bleep ] up. the alt left and right were fighting back. did you plan to follow the law in charlottesville? did the lawsuit push you out of the movement? it was absolutely essential to the propaganda strategy to look like a victim. the alt-right stopped activism by wore out their usefulness because their views
alt-right has been crushed and what remains of it hates spencer. we ve interviewed him a couple times since he s been charlottesville for the lawsuit always in a different location because he was too scared to stay too close to town. do you understand piling on someone when facing a lawsuit i would despite the col characterization of piling. i want to ask you the most interesting thing, did you do it on purpose and do you feel bad? charlottesville? the whole movement itself. did you do it on purpose or did you not care? i didn t create the movement? you named it and became the face of it. i was trying to unite everything where it would be simply me and it would have been better if they had [ bleep ] bent the knee and shut the [ bleep ] up. wow. the whole 2016, 2017 experience was quite something, wasn t it?