{"id":33747,"date":"2023-05-04T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/?p=33747"},"modified":"2023-05-05T21:35:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T21:35:30","slug":"proud-boys-members-convicted-of-seditious-conspiracy-3-essential-reads-on-the-group-and-right-wing-extremist-white-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/proud-boys-members-convicted-of-seditious-conspiracy-3-essential-reads-on-the-group-and-right-wing-extremist-white-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Boys members convicted of seditious conspiracy \u2013 3 essential reads on the group and right-wing extremist white\u00a0nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Inglis<\/a>, The Conversation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four members of the right-wing extremist group called the Proud Boys were convicted on May 4, 2023, on charges of seditious conspiracy<\/a> and other charges in connection with their efforts to lead an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those convicted include the group\u2019s former leader, Enrique Tarrio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several scholars have written for The Conversation U.S. about the group, its ideologies and other elements of the right-wing extremist push for white nationalism. Here we spotlight three examples from our archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Members of the Proud Boys, along with others, march toward the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. AP Photo\/Carolyn Kaster<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

1. Who are the Proud Boys and what do they want?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProud Boys have identified themselves<\/a> as \u2018Western chauvinists\u2019 who focus on opposing political correctness and white guilt. But these claims have generally been seen as cover for deeper racist and antisemitic sentiments,\u201d wrote criminology scholars Matthew Valasik<\/a> at the University of Alabama and Shannon Reid<\/a> at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[T]he more committed members of these and other extreme right-wing groups believe that the U.S. government, as currently constituted, is illegitimate and should be overthrown and replaced with one that is based on white supremacy,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Decrying the insidiousness of white supremacy at a protest march. Stephen Zenner\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2. Proud Boys are just one example of systemic racism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany Proud Boys reject<\/a> the label \u2018white supremacist,\u2019 arguing their aim is to \u2018save America\u2019 and to defend \u2018Western values,\u2019\u201d wrote Ursula Moffitt<\/a>, who was a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Northwestern University but is now on the faculty of Wheaton College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, she explained, \u201c[w]hite supremacy was itself a longstanding Western value. And white people don\u2019t have to be white supremacists to benefit from the ways it still shapes American society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Moffitt wrote, \u201cthe privileges afforded to whiteness are so much a part of the structure of U.S. society that many white people don\u2019t even notice them. \u2026 [A]lthough racism is often seen only as prejudiced beliefs and behaviors \u2013 as embodied by the Proud Boys and other such groups \u2013 it is better defined as a system of advantage based on race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The challenge of reintegrating extremists into society<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not clear what will happen if the four Proud Boys members convicted on May 4, or others facing their own charges in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, go to jail \u2013 or what society will do with them when they\u2019re eventually released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[N]either the national security agencies nor the Department of Justice\u2019s Bureau of Prisons has seriously considered how to handle extremist inmates while they serve their sentences<\/a>, nor how to offer them a road to reintegration with the country they attacked, or planned to,\u201d wrote John Horgan<\/a>, a psychologist at Georgia State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horgan recommended creating \u201cderadicalization efforts to address the increasingly diverse population of homegrown terrorists, [which] could include psychological counseling and restorative justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: This story is a roundup of articles from The Conversation\u2019s archives.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Inglis<\/a>, Freelance Editor, The Conversation<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article is republished from The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Inglis, The Conversation Four members of the right-wing extremist group called the Proud Boys were convicted on May 4, 2023, on charges of seditious conspiracy and other charges in connection with their efforts to lead an attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Those convicted include the group\u2019s former leader, Enrique Tarrio. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[473,2275,13242,10537,13990,11335,1353,10863,2950],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33753,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33747\/revisions\/33753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifeandnews.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}