The Anti-Defamation League & The Racial State / Emmaia Gelman

 You have to undo some of the 400 years of subjugation that sort of establishes white privilege and gives in a supposedly equal playing field which still makes whiteness dominant. So the ADL had been part of that civil rights movement advocating for anti-discrimination law and stuff like that. But it was really super devoted to the capitalist state, and in fact, the settler colonial state. So was it part of the civil rights movement? Yes. And did it fight for racial justice? No. But it did surveil white nationalists and it has until very recently. Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, went on Twitter and told the ADL they were breaking up. And then Kash Patel's complaint was that the ADL was surveilling and posting too much information and paying too close attention to white nationalist organizations in the Trump era. And the ADL's response was like, ‘Oh, so sorry. We'll take that down off our website’.