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Luigi Mangione & the Making of an American Terrorist
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Luigi Mangione & the Making of an American Terrorist

Who becomes a “domestic terrorist” in the United States?
Who was this spectacle for? Hint: not you or me!

Since the passage of the US PATRIOT Act in 2001, the culture of anti-terrorism in the United States has proven fertile ground for at once legitimizing a threat as extreme and delegitimizing the context which produced it. So what does it mean when it’s a label deployed more often for college protestors and disgruntled Florida moms than murderous white supremacists?

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