The most chilling photos, however, show hordes of torch-bearing, fresh-faced, “fashy”-coiffed white men in their teens and 20s. He would of course not be the first radicalized young white man to commit an act of domestic terrorism. Millennials overall are more racially tolerant than earlier generations — but that’s because young people today are less likely to be white. White millennials exhibit about as much racial prejudice, as measured by explicit bias, as white Gen Xers and boomers. Perhaps it’s no wonder that some self-aggrandizing young white men heard a siren call in all those dog whistles: Tomorrow belongs to them.

Source: Washington Post August 14, 2017 23:15 UTC