Hatewatch Headlines 6/15/2017
Study find racial, ethnic fear drove Trump voters; Savage calls for media takeover after shootings; Racial politics lurk behind national monuments fight; and more.
Politico: Study finds that views on immigration, Muslims drove white voters to Trump.
Media Matters: Trump ally Michael Savage calls for government takeover of media after D.C. shootings.
Raw Story: ‘You guys are next’: Black and Latino Democrats receive ‘party-specific’ threats after baseball shootings.
Huffington Post: Pastor who once linked Obama to the anti-Christ says it’s time to stop demonizing politicians.
Salon: The ugly racial politics behind the battle over national monuments like Utah’s Bear Ears.
Colorlines: The growing alliance between neo-Nazis, right-wing paramilitaries and Trumpist Republicans.
Oregonian: Oregon expert on white supremacism explains the changing landscape of hate groups.
Think Progress: Confederate nostalgia almost won the night in Virginia’s GOP gubernatorial primary.
Mother Jones: Virginia’s most anti-LGBT lawmaker might lose his seat to state’s first openly transgender candidate.
The Atlantic: A resolution condemning white supremacy causes chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention.
Right Wing Watch: Scott Lively says the ‘hand of God’ forced a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit against him.
New York Daily News: Bronx mosque targeted three times by pellet-gun shooter in possible hate crime.
Newsday: Police say door shattered, ‘anti-Christian’ graffiti sprayed at East Meadow Church in likely hate crime.
The Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA): Man accused of assault on Long Beach officers referred to himself as a ‘tribal sovereign.’
Vice: The birth of Canada’s armed, anti-Muslim ‘Patriot’ militia group.