Martha Root
American teacher
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May 21, 2026
Rooting Out Racists
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Alex GoldmanHOST
Martha says that there was no single moment that galvanized her fight against far-right extremism, but the rise in hateful rhetoric against immigrants over the past decade certainly had an impact.
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9:15Martha RootGUEST
I think especially in 2015 when the refugee situation in Germany or Europe kind of went more intense, and mainly with the, with the reactions from right-wingers and racists towards it is something I think where, where it escalated more.
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9:30Martha RootGUEST
So on the one hand, there is, like, the basically racist reason that refugees have to die in the Mediterranean Sea and nobody is coming to help them.
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9:39Martha RootGUEST
And if a white, rich person in a, in a sailing yacht is in distress in the same geographical area, um, you probably have, like, two helicopters within 30 minutes above them.
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9:49Martha RootGUEST
For sure, there always were racists, like, no questions about that, but they, they were, like, the idiots of, of the idiots.
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9:55Martha RootGUEST
With this debate, basically I kind of saw that it's not only the idiots, it's really, really center people who basically repeat really, really racist, and I mean, like, just blatantly wrong stuff.

Alex GoldmanHOST
It's looking in the same direction." But when you dig into the site itself, you find profiles that say things like, "I have very good genes," or, "I would like to find a woman who understands the value of nation, race, and seeks the truth," or, "Jews want us all to mix together until the world becomes a brown, dumbed-down mass of low IQ halfwits."
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12:37Martha RootGUEST
The whole background idea is like the whole idea of the so-called white genocide, and, um, that, that usually somehow includes that, um, there are some, some powers somewhere, um, which, which want to get rid of the, of the white race.