This is a collection of injurious texts and some background information on them. Truly hateful ideas are shared and defended in some of these texts–it pains me to link to them–so do protect yourself. Skip anything that seems potentially harmful for you. These are just some potential places to start looking for an artifact to analyze. They are in no way required.
Most of the texts gathered here simply offer context or background in an area from which you might begin your search for a “pathological text.” The artifact you select for your analysis should itself function as a pathological text and not simply describe or explain one.
Reminder: We are defining pathological texts as texts that inscribe and propagate diseased or aberrant passions already in circulation. In reaction against our shared exposedness to one another and so to “rhetoric’s sensorium,” pathological texts insulate and tribalize: they invite violence by inspiring or reinforcing passionate attachment (love, hope, loyalty, compassion, identification) to an us and bitter disavowal (hate, anger, fear, disgust, contempt) of a them, while resisting rhetorical engagement that could challenge the clean distinction.
Some General Information
- Glossary of Extremist Language
- Washington Post on History of Hateful Ideologies: “‘War of Races: How a Hateful Ideology Echoes Through American History
- International Center for Counter-Terrorism on The Turner Diaries: https://icct.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ICCT-Berger-The-Turner-Legacy-September2016-2.pdf (Since its publication in 1978, at least 200 people have been killed in hate crimes and terrorist attacks by people who were influenced by the book. Most notoriously, the book directly inspired the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured nearly 700)
- Steven Miller’s leaked white nationalist emails: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails
- More on Steven Miller’s emails: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/01/14/miller-dismisses-daca-emails-mirroring-anti-immigrant-extremists-views?fbclid=IwAR0l9W3O_p1DesaFSbgyzd40JDbsw7ZI5s8lct_dFdDo-YBbGo5swTypRCg
- Racist Book by American Eugenicist, The Passing of the Great Race: https://archive.org/stream/passinggreatrac01grangoog#page/n8/mode/2up
- Racist Book: The Rising Tide of Color: http://www.sonofnostalgiazone.com/proddetail.asp?prod=RisingTideth
- The New Yorker on recent anti-Semetic acts: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/behind-the-bewildering-recent-incidents-of-anti-semitism?fbclid=IwAR0_akQMo2r8WajBqiAbTgJguG_E5yT7vSXt09VbKyhwCC6m9lg5aSyFvTM
Southern Poverty Law Center
- Extremist Files: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files
- Hatewatch: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch
February 2020 Shooting in Hanauh, Germany
- Germany Shooting is Deadliest Yet in Upsurge of Far-Right Attacks. (New York Times reporting)
- Germany Shooting. (BBC report)
August 2019 El Paso Shooting
- Patrick Crusius’s Manifesto. (Warning: this is the actual doc.)
- What’s in Crusius’s Manifesto. Washington Post reading of the Crusius manifesto.
August 2017 Charlottesville Killing
June 2015 Charleston Church Shooting
- On Dylann Roof’s Manifesto
- Purported to be Roof’s Manefesto
- Racist References in Roof’s Manifesto Decoded.
- Photos in Roof’s Manifesto.
New Zealand Shooting
- Brenton Terrant’s Manifesto: https://www.ilfoglio.it/userUpload/The_Great_Replacementconvertito.pdf (Warning: this is the actual document)
- Brenton Terrant story: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/zealand-terrorist-attack-suspect-grins-court-190316011147796.html
- Brenton Terrant and white supremacy propaganda: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/03/15/new-zealand-terrorist-manifesto-influenced-far-right-online-ecosystem-hatewatch-finds
American Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer
- Spencer’s Hail Trump speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=1o6-bi3jlxk&feature=emb_logo
- The Telegraph on Spencer: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/22/hail-trump-alt-right-leader-richard-spencer-leads-white-nationalist/
- Rebranding White Nationalism: Inside Richard Spencer’s Alt-Right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVeZ0_Lhazw
White Replacement Conspiracy Theory
- On replacement theory: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/technology/replacement-theory.html
- What is the Great Replacement? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/us/politics/grand-replacement-explainer.html
- On Bob Whitaker’s Mantra: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/06/07/bob-whitaker-author-racist-mantra-white-genocide-has-died
- French origins of replacement theory: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/04/the-french-origins-of-you-will-not-replace-us
- Interview with Adam Serwer on roots of white supremacy. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/03/harvard-fellow-examines-rise-and-roots-of-white-supremacy/
- Lots of links to research on White Genocide Conspiracy Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_genocide_conspiracy_theory
- Stefan Molyneux on the “infestation” of migrants (suggests it’s part of a liberal plot to supplant conservatives): https://soundcloud.com/stefan-molyneux/fdr-3195-is-the-european-migrant-crisis-leading-to-war-paul-joseph-watson-and-stefan-molyneux
On the migrant crisis and the death of Alan Kurdi (drowned 3 year old child):
- Millennial Woes on the migrant crisis (pushing “replacement” conspiracy theory): https://www.bitchute.com/video/mcj2mKEAsTrY/
- The death of Alan Kurdi in the Guardian (challenges Millennial Woes about Kurdi’s parents): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/22/abdullah-kurdi-father-boy-on-beach-alan-refugee-tragedy
Anti-Gay Pastor, Steven Anderson:
- BBC intro to Anderson
- CNN on Ireland banning Anderson
- Newsweek on his ban from the Netherlands
- Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch, on Anderson
- New York Times on Anderson’s ban and more
- Anderson says Australia’s bush fires are God’s wrath for banning him
- Anderson arrested and deported from Africa for saying gay people should be killed
- Anderson prays that Cailyn Jenner will die and go to hell (FYI: this is really hard to watch)
- Anderson suggests killing gay people is a cure for AIDS; also here + some associated videos, if you can take it: here and here.
Black Hebrew Israelite Movement
- The New Jersey kosher Market shooters’ connection to the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/nyregion/black-hebrew-israelites-jersey-city-suspects.html
- History of Hebrew Israelism: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2015/history-hebrew-israelism
A Few Recent Sexist, Heterosexist, Racist Laws and Policies
- Parental Rights for Rapists in Alabama: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-alabama–where-lawmakers-banned-abortion-for-rape-victims–rapists-parental-rights-are-protected/2019/06/09/6d2aa5de-831b-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html
- Parental Rights for Rapists in the US: https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/17/health/parental-rights-rapists-explainer/index.html
- Bathroom Bills: https://naspa.org/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bathroom-bill-state-legislation-affecting-trans-and-gender-non-binary-people
- Bathroom bills explained: https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/explaining-bathroom-bills-transgender-rights-and-equal-protection
- Why Bathroom Bills Matter to Trans People: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/transgender-bathroom-laws-history
- Stop and Frisk in New York City: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/nyregion/bloomberg-stop-and-frisk-new-york.html
Conspiracy Related
- Conspiracy theory and violence: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/local-fbi-field-office-warns-conspiracy-theory-driven-domestic-extremists-n1038441
- Time’s list of the world’s most enduring conspiracy theories (includes the reptilian elite!): http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1860871,00.html
- Conspiracy Theories and Vaccine Skepticism: https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/blog/apa-conspiracy-study
- Birther Conspiracy: https://www.mediamatters.org/birther-conspiracy-theory
- Qanon: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531
- What is Qanon? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/what-qanon-guide-conspiracy-theory-taking-hold-among-trump-supporters-n897271?icid=related
- Qanon mother conspires to kidnap own child: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/colorado-mom-inspired-qanon-conspiracy-sought-kidnap-her-own-child-n1111711
- Qanon standoff at Hoover Dam: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/qanon-believer-arrested-hoover-dam#.vwl3J3oWm
- Flat Earthers:
Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones (plus challengers)
- Alex Jones: Protesting NFL players are “kneeling to white genocide”: https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-protesting-nfl-players-are-kneeling-white-genocide?redirect_source=/video/2017/09/26/alex-jones-protesting-nfl-players-are-kneeling-white-genocide/218051
- Why Colin Kaepernick takes a knee: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/opinion/colin-kaepernick-football-protests.html
- Alex Jones’ pushes travel advisory for whites (fake facts about black on white crime): https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/denver-area-stabbing-caused-alex-jones-issue-travel-advisory-white-people-was-hoax?redirect_source=/blog/2017/08/28/denver-area-stabbing-caused-alex-jones-issue-travel-advisory-white-people-was-hoax/217788
- I worked for Alex Jones, and I regret it: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/magazine/alex-jones-infowars.html
Pizzagate
- Shooter had read Alex Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/12/comet-pizza-suspect-shooters-alex-jones/
- Dissecting the Pizzagate Conspiracy Theories: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/10/business/media/pizzagate.html
Racist science:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/insider/science-genetics-white-supremacy.html
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/us/white-supremacists-science-dna.html
- Unwelcome revival of race science. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-revival-of-race-science
- Response to racist science : https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sce.21506
In the Schools
- Students giving nazi salute : https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/us/baraboo-wisconsin-nazi-salute-photo.html
- KKK slurs in jingle bells: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/us/dover-high-school-kkk-video.html
- Elementary Teachers dress up as border wall and Mexicans for Halloween: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/03/these-school-teachers-dressed-up-mexicans-wall-halloween-it-didnt-go-well/
- Racist slur sparks race conversation at high school: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/school-racism-students.html
- Uptick in bullying non-white students in schools: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/local/school-bullying-trump-words/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most
- How to fight racism in biology class: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/07/us/race-biology-genetics.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_191208?campaign_id=2&instance_id=14317&segment_id=19407&user_id=4ac79ebe5ba9076098f7fca88f708be4®i_id=20270231208
On racism in Italy’s soccer league:
- When the Monkey Chants are for you: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/sports/soccer/romelu-lukaku-inter-italy-racism.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_MBE_p_20191223§ion=topNews?campaign_id=51&instance_id=14759&segment_id=19826&user_id=4ac79ebe5ba9076098f7fca88f708be4®i_id=2027023tion=topNews
- Italian Soccer’s Ant-Racism Campaign (went wrong): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/sports/soccer/italy-soccer-racism.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article&te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_MBE_p_20191223§ion=topNews?campaign_id=51&instance_id=14759&segment_id=19826&user_id=4ac79ebe5ba9076098f7fca88f708be4®i_id=20270231223§ion=topNews
- Black Friday: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/world/europe/black-friday-italy-soccer.html
Responding to Hateful Trolls
- How to fight anti-Semitic trolls online (Yair Rosenberg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GLb0J3aMlw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2CBgCy9zqzZW_1KyE76m8YpAMrQIZ4cCuG2eU9TMrln8S2UUyzRIFYcOg
- Trolling the trolls: https://www.univision.com/univision-news/culture/trolling-the-trolls-one-journalists-creative-response-to-online-harassment
Transformation
- On Calib Cain’s transformation from radical conspiracy theorist (at the end, there’s a strategy for counterargument): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html