Hatewatch Headlines 1/30/2017
How Trump unleashed the tide of prejudice; Jews not mentioned in Holocaust remembrance statement; Cataloging the 'Alt-Right’s' memes; and more.
UnDark: How Donald Trump has changed the perceived norms that previously restrained people’s expressions of prejudice.
The Washington Post: Trump’s statement marking Holocaust remembrance leaves out any mention of Jews.
Talking Points Memo: Trump staffer who shared racist social media posts to join Department of Education.
Huffington Post: After Trump deemed China a foreign enemy, anti-Asian hate crimes surged in Los Angeles, expert says.
Vice: Get to know the memes of the 'Alt-Right', and never miss a racist dog-whistle.
Media Matters: Breitbart reporter Virginia Hale is a white nationalist with a long history of racist and anti-Muslim Twitter posts.
Right Wing Watch: AFA’s Sandy Rios opines that women marchers were feminists who ‘live in filth.’
NPR: Why some Silicon Valley tech executives are bunkering down for doomsday.
Westword (Boulder, CO): Police say Milo Yiannopoulos’ purported neo-Nazi threat was actually an inside job.
Autostraddle: I was trained in the culture wars in home school, awaiting someone like Mike Pence as a messiah.
CBS Los Angeles: Black family says their son was the victim of a hate crime, but Laguna Beach police won’t call it that.
Fox 13 News (Tampa, FL): Family of gay man found slain in Tampa alleyway believes murder was a hate crime.
The Olympian (WA): Elderly man arrested, charged with hate crime after fracas with LGBT woman on city bus escalates.
7News Denver (CO): Police investigate notes at Aurora community center threatening to ‘blow up all you refugees.’
The Root: The woman who caused Emmett Till’s death at the hands of Mississippi racists in 1955 now admits that she lied.
Medium: The anti-black roots of America’s Islamophobia.
