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# EPISODE 23 | Anti-terrorism feat Joan Braune
- URL: https://www.rangemedia.co/podcasts/episode-23-anti-terrorism-feat-joan/
- Published: 2021-01-13T23:01:02.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-13T23:01:02.000Z
- Description: Friend of the pod and Gonzaga professor Joan Braune — noted critical theorist and Nazi disliker — joins to talk about how language shapes the way we view reality and how the blanket usage of words like “terrorism” and “extremism”
- Author: RANGE
- Tags: Podcast, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-02-19 03:03

Friend of the pod and Gonzaga professor Joan Braune — noted critical theorist and Nazi disliker — joins to talk about how language shapes the way we view reality and how the blanket usage of words like “terrorism” and “extremism” — even when explicitly describing right wing violence like last week’s attack on the Capitol building — might actually do more harm than good by incorrectly and unfairly lumping the emancipatory struggle of the left with the oppressive projects of the far right.

> **Read Dr. Braune’s [essay on the topic here](https://www.rangemedia.co/its-time-for-a-different-strategy/)**

It’s an especially timely conversation given that we’ve just lived through a half-decade of both unrelenting horror on the right and a surprisingly hopeful resurgence of emancipatory horizons on the left, and any attempt to push the incoming Biden administration in that latter direction is going to require a concerted effort to reframe a debate that has marginalized mainstream left ideas like universal healthcare since Captain America punched his first Nazi.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/35/e7/35e7a6d5-1d7d-405c-9ee3-dce92dfd190f/content/images/rangemedia-co/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/b79ca9c5-9ebc-4b3b-8830-cff7457c1063_617x299.png)

It’s a crisp, cogent, fun, infuriating conversation. Just like we like ‘em.

Really appreciate Dr. Braune taking the time.

#### MATERIALS

- [Terror and Abolition](http://bostonreview.net/race/atiya-husain-terror-and-abolition?fbclid=IwAR00Z3z7sLxlOcHBDuUl%5FT7UGt%5Fiq8kpKzACKc7GJRRbmrSqakjtW9ruXTk&ref=rangemedia.co#.X-nsKULJXJc.twitter) | **Boston Review**
- [Explaining the Problematic “Countering Violent Extremism” programs](https://ca.cair.com/sacval/explaining-the-problematic-cve-pve-programs/?ref=rangemedia.co) | **CAIR**
- [Legacy of Discredited Centrist/Extremist Theory](https://www.politicalresearch.org/1998/11/17/repression-and-ideology-the-legacy-of-discredited-centristextremist-theory?ref=rangemedia.co) | **Political Research Associates**

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