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High school students prepare for 20th Annual Academic World Quest Competition at CSUSB Palm Desert Campus
NBC Palm Springs
Feb. 11, 2025
Hosted by Michael Karp, assistant professor of history, the 20th Annual Academic World Quest competition is set to take place on Feb. 13 at the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus. Seven local high schools will be competing for top honors and scholarships, with the top three teams set to be awarded scholarships.
Antioch High School shooter idolized mass murderers, embraced alt-right content
Campus Safety
Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, was interviewed for an article examining what may have motivated a 17-year-old Antioch (Tenn.) High School student to fatally shoot one of his classmates, injure another and take his own life on Jan. 22. According to authorities, the suspect had written that “Race mixing is a sin against God,” and that he wanted to be white. The shooter was Black.
Experts say there are many complicated reasons why some people of color are drawn to far-right extremism and white nationalism. The factors range from toxic masculinity to the internet to colonization to slavery but often begin with universal factors that draw people to extremism: social isolation, “misogyny and a sense of fraternity,” according to Levin.
“Common hatreds,” he says, include antisemitism, anti-Blackness and anti-government feelings.
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