Hatewatch Headlines 3/2/2017
Trump’s speech heralded more authoritarianism; the KKK in 1920s Illinois; DREAM student picked up after making plea; are ICE, Border Patrol going rogue under Trump? And more.
NPR: The rise of the KKK in 1920s Illinois.
Esquire: Why Trump sounding ‘presidential’ only makes him more dangerous.
Media Matters: After speech to Congress, fawning pundits play Charlie Brown to Trump’s Lucy.
Associated Press: ‘DREAM’ student detained by ICE agents shortly after speaking at press conference, beseeching Trump’s help.
Raw Story: White House adviser says Trump won’t ‘overly discuss’ hate crimes by whites for fear he’ll ‘cause a fire.’
Salon: Donald Trump’s ‘blame the liberals’ talk part of right-wing tradition of victimology, conspiracism.
Mondoweiss: Are Bannon and Trump turning U.S. anti-immigrant enforcement agencies into their own paramilitary?
Think Progress: Trump’s speech wrong about domestic terrorist attacks, since right-wing extremists commit far and away the most.
Right Wing Watch: White House aide Sebastian Gorka won’t say whether Trump considers Islam a religion.
State Scoop: New York confronts hate crimes with $25 million initiative – including $5,000 bounties.
NPR: No jail time for 19-year-old in Idaho coat-hanger assault on mentally disabled black teammate.
The Verge: White nationalists have somehow manipulated Google search results for ‘Boasian anthropology.’
Jewish Telegraph Agency: St. Louis suburb victimized by cemetery vandalism mulls hate-crime registry.
NJ.com: Rutgers University conservative group’s flyer is similar to a white-supremacist poster making the rounds.
The Daily Cardinal (Madison, WI): White nationalist groups continues recruiting on Wisconsin campus, Dropik ‘still affiliated.’
Foreign Policy: How Dutch populist Geert Wilders became America’s favorite Islamophobe.
Newsweek: The long history of far-right extremism in the Golden State.
