
Don’t Expand the War on Terror in the Name of Antiracism
Declaring white nationalism a form of terrorism won’t combat white nationalism — but it will grant more arbitrary powers to a carceral state that preys on the most vulnerable.
Jeanne Theoharis is distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College of CUNY and the author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.
Declaring white nationalism a form of terrorism won’t combat white nationalism — but it will grant more arbitrary powers to a carceral state that preys on the most vulnerable.