{"id":1789326,"date":"2020-09-21T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1789326"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T13:27:23","slug":"mapping-far-right-vigilantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/mapping-far-right-vigilantism\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Far-Right Vigilantism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Reid Ross of Portland State University has created <a href=\"http:\/\/web.pdx.edu\/~aross\/incidents\/incidents.html\">an interactive map that tracks incidents of far-right extremist vigilantism<\/a> in the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2020-09-09\/maplab-the-spread-of-far-right-vigilantism\">Laura Biss has the story at <em>MapLab<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The map shows that certain regions seem to be hotspots for extremism, including Southern California, Oregon and Washington. Ross fears for what might be coming to Texas, which has seen pockets of violence at protests and is home to people whom Ross calls \u201cexperienced racists, armed to the teeth.&#8221; He views the concentration of incidents in the Pacific Northwest as \u201can inverted funhouse,\u201d considering their historic parallel in the terror of the Civil Rights-era South, which has fewer incidents today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2020\/09\/14\/interactive-map-shows-the-cold.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Reid Ross of Portland State University has created an interactive map that tracks incidents of far-right extremist vigilantism in the United States. Laura Biss has the story at MapLab: The map shows that certain&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/mapping-far-right-vigilantism\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1479,870,158,1478],"class_list":["post-1789326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-conflicts","tag-far-right","tag-racism","tag-usa","tag-vigilantism","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3985,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/computer-keyboard-as-transit-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789326,"position":0},"title":"Computer Keyboard as Transit Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"1 March 2017","format":"link","excerpt":"Oblotzky's\u00a0SA Metro is a custom keycap set for mechanical keyboards \"inspired by big city transit maps.\" I know you don't\u00a0look at the keys when touch typing, but ...\u00a0man. 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Looks gorgeous; slows my browser right down. Via Boing Boing, Kottke and O'Reilly Radar, among others.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Weather and Climate&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Weather and Climate","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/weather-and-climate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787749,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/09\/u-s-pixel-art-map\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789326,"position":2},"title":"U.S. Pixel Art Map","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 September 2019","format":"image","excerpt":"Argentina-based PixelDanc3r\u2019s animated pixel art map of the United States evokes 16-bit console video games of a few decades ago. It isn\u2019t their first rodeo either: see this pixel map of Argentina from last year. 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