Bamboo Review: The Eliminationists
I finished David Neiwert's new book The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right right before I left for New York, and now I'm back and have some time to really review it. I did an interview with David on RH Reality Check a couple of weeks ago, and it was really interesting. We talked a lot about the current right wing movement's tendency towards eliminationist rhetoric, and how it's resulted in a number of murders and terrorist threats since the Obama election. For a podcast about reproductive rights, and a short interview, that's about as much as we could cover. Obviously, eliminationism is a major issue with reproductive rights, since encouraging their followers to dehumanize and murder providers has been a part of the anti-choice movement for a long time now. But the book covers a lot more territory, looking at fascism and social movements like it, and spelling out a history of American eliminationism.