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  "description": "White supremacy is a sad feature of the American experiment, not an outlier, not a bug, not abnormal. It's what the country was built on, tries to convince itself it wasn't, tries to push into the shadows and now, in our current moment, openly embraces it. Not by calling what it is, but by enacting it as policy and gaslighting anyone willing to listen to the stream of bullshit that envelops it. That The Order's story was rendered so effectively to film by British leads and an Australian director is a credit to all those involved and also benefits from the perspective granted by not growing up and living in a country steeped in this particular strain of racist bullshit. What you do get is brilliant, impassioned performances, an objective treatment of what us unequivocally a domestic terrorist organization and a conclusion true to reality. White supremacy is a poison. In American society it's been an ever-present poison and one whose strength waxes and wanes. The racist bullshit put to page that is The Turner Diaries features prominently — The Order lifted its name right from it and said waste of paper and ink has inspired not just their terrorist actions but those of Timothy McVeigh, the Aryan Republican Army, David Copeland, Jacob D. Robida and on and on. It's a vile text and the actions of those that see it anything other than that are similarly vile. Seeing The Turner Diaries read to a child as a bedtime story is appalling. It's a compelling film, an honest retelling and one in a long line of stories that will continue to be told as long as this country refuses to reckon with its history. We have an administration that, while less explicit in its rhetoric, is aligned and overt in its policy. Time is a flat, violent circle.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/the-order-2024",
  "publishedAt": "2025-08-26T13:30:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "thriller",
    "crime",
    "drama"
  ],
  "title": "The Order"
}