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CSUSB’s Brian Levin comments on Trump’s mention of right-wing extremist group during debate
NBC Today
Sept. 30, 2020
Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, was interviewed for a segment after the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, pledged allegiance to President Donald Trump after he told the group to “stand back and stand by” during Tuesday night’s presidential debate.
“Getting instructions from the president on a nationally televised platform is a dream of groups like the Proud Boys,” said Levin.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has classified the Proud Boys as a hate group, the report said.
See the segment at “Proud Boys celebrate President Trump’s callout to them during debate.”
CSUSB professor comments on Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacists during presidential debate
KNX Radio (Los Angeles)
Sept. 30, 2020
A segment following up on the Sept. 29 presidential debate included an interview with Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, who discussed President Donald Trump’s apparent failure to denounce white supremacism and mentioning the extremist group the Proud Boys, telling them to “stand back and stand by.”
Levin said he was horrified by the comment and mentioned that the Proud Boys were celebrating over the mention. “The president is fomenting civil disorder, and there are a series of groups that support him, who believe that a civil war will take place, and this ranges from folks (like) the Proud Boys to the Boogaloo Boys, and others,” he said. “But the bottom line is, the president has a responsibility to use the bully pulpit to unify this country and prevent violence, rather than to foment it.”
Understand your anxiety and gain more control over it, CSUSB professor writes
Psychology Today
Sept. 29, 2020
Anthony Silard, a CSUSB public administration professor, defined what creates anxiety in us and offered suggestions to overcome in his blog, “The Art of Living Free.”
“Today, while facing the largest public health crisis of our lifetimes,” he wrote, “this understanding of anxiety can help us work with others with whom we share compelling values to transform our anxiety into acceptance (of what has already occurred), ambition (fueled by the undying hope that you can create the better world you know is possible) and action (to transform your vision into reality).”
Read the complete article at “5 reasons we’ve become filled with anxiety.”
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