Jan 13, 2018
George Ciccariello-Maher is the
guest on this week's episode of The Chauncey DeVega
Show. He is a political scientist and activist who is a
visiting faculty member at New York University. Professor Ciccariello-Maher was
formerly at Drexel University before he was forced out of
his position by a coordinated right-wing campaign of harassment
which included death threats and other violence.
Professor Ciccariello-Maher was
targeted by the right-wing mob in this new era of
McCarthyism because of a series of online posts and other comments
which discussed toxic white masculinity and mass murder by guns in
the aftermath of the Las Vegas Massacre. He further inflamed the
mob by also mocking the delusional myth of so-called "white
genocide" that is circulated by white supremacists across the
right-wing echo chamber including Fox "News".
During this week's episode
of The Chauncey DeVega Show, George and Chauncey
discuss white identity politics, the right-wing's assault on higher
education, as well as the rise of Donald Trump and what this moment
reveals about enduring white supremacy and white male rage. George
also shares what it was like to go on "Fox News" and defeat Tucker
Carlson.
In this week's episode, Chauncey
DeVega continues to caution people to remain focused on the real
issues instead of being mesmerized by Donald Trump's extremely bad
and shameful second week of 2018--a week which included revelations
about hush money to a porn star, saying that nonwhite people come
from "sh@!hole" countries, the release of the very damning Fusion
GPS testimony, and incompetence during a public meeting on
immigration. To close out this week's podcast, Chauncey discusses
the connections between "white trash" and Trump's "sh@!hole" slur
of nonwhite immigrants.