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Trump is setting us free: White supremacists celebrate reports that Trump will dial down scrutiny
This is absolutely a signal of favor to us.
By Laurel Raymond and Alan Pyke
Online neo-Nazi and white supremacist forums have been unmistakably jubilant lately, as web chatter moved from celebrating President Donald Trumps electoral victory to celebrating individual cabinet appointments and policy proposals.
On Thursday, internet racists celebrated another perceived victory: Reports that President Trump will soon remove white nationalist groups from a federal effort to study and neutralize extremist radicalization, and rebrand the program to focus solely on groups associating themselves with Islam.
The Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program partners government agencies with community organizations in hopes of preventing people from being radicalized into various types of terror and hate groups. Its primary focus has always been in Muslim communities, but the Obama administration designed it to also encompass the American far-right groups that propagandize to people like Dylann Roof.
News of Trumps plan to reverse that symbolic recognition of right-wing threats prompted a wave of celebration in white nationalist circles.
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(9,899 posts)He'll have access to autonomous little militias for dirty work. Bannon's little brownshirts for hire.