Kurt Braddock
Kurt Braddock is Assistant Professor, School of Communication American University (AU), a university based in Washington, D.C.[1]
Kurt Braddock "is presently interested in the development of communicative counter-radicalization strategies that prevent white supremacism, neo-Nazism, and the adoption of other violent far-right ideologies."[2] He is a faculty fellow of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at American University.
'Attitudinal Inoculation'
In an article posted at NBC News on February 12, 2021 by Julia Ainsley,[3] Kurt Braddock was cited about a 500k grant his department received to tackle the "growing threat of violent white supremacist extremist disinformation." Part of the approach is evidently by using a tactic called "Attitudinal Inoculation". According to the article, "The idea of attitudinal inoculation is to give people who may be vulnerable to disinformation the skills to recognize it and argue against it, much as a vaccine builds antibodies to a virus before the body encounters it."
- "The new grants would expand on those funded at the end of the Trump administration by DHS' Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention, which included over $500,000 for a project at American University that studies the 'growing threat of violent white supremacist extremist disinformation.' The program is aimed at preventing spread of the disinformation through what researchers call 'attitudinal inoculation.'"
Trump is a 'Stochastic Terrorist'
On January 20, 2021, Kurt Braddock wrote an article[4] titled "Words have consequences We must call the chaos on Capitol Hill an attempted coup, an insurrection, and domestic terrorism. We must also recognize President Trump for what he is: a stochastic terrorist" claiming that President Trump engages in "stochastic terrorism", which he describes as "comments that promote terrorism without explicitly asking people to engage in violence."
References
- ↑ Kurt Braddock (accessed February 16, 2021)
- ↑ Disengagement and Deradicalisation: A Critical Discussion (accessed February 16, 2021)
- ↑ Biden DHS plans to expand grants for studying, preventing domestic violent extremism (accessed February 16, 2021)
- ↑ [http://www.commonsnews.org/site/sitenext/story.php?articleno=33453 Words have consequences We must call the chaos on Capitol Hill an attempted coup, an insurrection, and domestic terrorism. We must also recognize President Trump for what he is: a stochastic terrorist. (accessed February 16, 2021)]