The Normalization of Extremism: Charlottesville to January 6th and Beyond

America is grappling with a crisis of violent extremism: flashpoints like Charlottesville, Pittsburgh, El Paso, and the Capitol insurrection - but also the more subtle but equally dangerous normalization of extremism through attacks on our public health, election, and education officials and increasingly widespread conspiracies and disinformation. Watch JCRC Executive Director Jeremy Burton in conversation with Amy Spitalnick - Executive Director of Integrity First for America, which successfully took on the Charlottesville neo-Nazis in court - and Reverend Willie Bodrick, Senior Pastor of the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached- discuss how extremism has seeped into the mainstream, and what we can do about it.
We had the chance to meet with Amy in October 2020, to hear about the case her team was building against the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and hate groups responsible for the Unite the Right violence; now just months after IFA’s historic victory-- securing multi-million dollar judgments on behalf of Charlottesville community members who were injured, Amy joins us to share lessons from their case and discuss how we can push back on the normalization of extremism in our communities.