{"id":46767,"date":"2017-09-22T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46767"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:11","slug":"gosine-social-rights-activists-are-helping-the-alt-right-get-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/gosine-social-rights-activists-are-helping-the-alt-right-get-legitimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"GOSINE: Social rights activists are helping the alt-right get legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Gosine, Brock Associate Professor of Sociology, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/opinion-story\/7570362-social-rights-activists-are-helping-the-alt-right-get-legitimacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in the Hamilton Spectator<\/a>\u00a0about the danger of the polarized political climate in the U.S. and the potential for it to migrate north.<\/p>\n<p>Gosine writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>How did the &#8220;alt-right&#8221; manage to permeate mainstream American consciousness?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People around the world were aghast this summer at the horrors of Charlottesville, Va. \u2014 brutal violence between white nationalists and counterprotesters; a white supremacist using a car as a weapon; Donald Trump reluctant to condemn white nationalists, blaming the violence on &#8220;many sides&#8221; and saying &#8220;some very fine people&#8221; can be found on the far right. (When he finally did denounce racists and bigotry, Trump sounded, at best, perfunctory.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Charlottesville prompted Canadians to wonder if a white nationalist event of comparable magnitude could happen here. The U.S.A. suffers from a degree of political polarization that is not present in Canada, at least not to the same extent. America&#8217;s white supremacist movement \u2014 or the &#8220;alt(ernative) right&#8221; as it has rebranded itself \u2014 has managed to gain mainstream traction that it has not achieved in our country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespec.com\/opinion-story\/7570362-social-rights-activists-are-helping-the-alt-right-get-legitimacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Gosine, Brock Associate Professor of Sociology, wrote a piece recently published in the Hamilton Spectator about the danger of the polarized political climate in the U.S. and the potential for it to migrate north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,38],"tags":[5610,3700],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95266,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767\/revisions\/95266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}