Racist movements now recruit strategists rather than street soldiers

Evidence

There was a great deal of interest in the 1980s in recruiting thugs, your typical racist skinhead. There’s a lot less interest in that now and a lot more in recruiting college-bound or college-educated upper-middle-class bright kids because they are looking for strategists not street soldiers. It is not about beating people up in bars but looking for the leaders of tomorrow. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2552

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A concise frame for how radical movements adapt recruitment to socio-economic conditions — mirrors how terrorist and hate movements professionalize by drawing on educated talent pools.