From Trump to Fox News to 8chan: the web of white supremacist rhetoric is wide | Siva Vaidhyanathan
Trump is a politician perfectly fitted for a media ecosystem that amplifies extreme emotion and allows the loud to drown out the calm
“How do you stop these people? You can’t,” Donald Trump said at a rally in Florida in May. The response from someone in the crowd came immediately: “Shoot them.” The audience laughed and cheered. Trump smirked and made a joke about it.
“Them” meant Latino immigrants and refugees that day. “Them,” to those who take Trump’s permission to spread hatred boldly and openly, has at times in the past two years meant Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus and anyone who stands against the white nationalist agenda.