Hatewatch Headlines 10/27/2017
The far right seems to be winning over Gen Z; Who’s who at ‘White Lives Matter’ rallies; Carlson fuels wild conspiracy theories about Vegas; and more.
Vice: The extreme right is increasingly organized, globalized, and winning over Generation Z.
USA Today: Four extremist groups that will be part of weekend’s White Lives Matter rallies.
Forward: Introducing Fashwave, the techno soundtrack of the alt-right.
Think Progress: The Internet’s favorite neo-Nazi, Andrew Anglin, is hiding to escape lawsuits.
Salon: How racism became our 21st-century Zeitgeist, and how we can turn it down.
Media Matters: Tucker Carlson fuels wild conspiracy theory that victim of Mandalay Bay shooter was actually an accomplice.
The Guardian (UK): ‘I hope to God someone truly shoots you’: Online conspiracy theorists harass Las Vegas massacre survivors.
The New Civil Rights Movement: Trump’s DOJ asks high court to allow it to argue in support of anti-gay baker.
Crosscut (Seattle): Anti-immigrant group spreads names, addresses of alleged undocumented immigrants in suburban Burien.
Oregonian: Two men who dug trenches at Malheur Wildlife Refuge to pay $10,000 each in restitution.
The Hill: Rep. Frederica Wilson not in Washington due to threats arising from her dispute with Trump.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Republicans want to talk about free speech, but what about the rise in hateful speech?
Mother Jones: The Republican campaign in Virginia is all about preserving ‘our’ Confederate monuments.
The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC): No funnel cakes for me as long as the Sons of Confederate Veterans have forum at the fair.
Tennessean: Flyers tied to white-nationalist group found, then removed, at Vanderbilt University.
WRTV-TV (Indianapolis, IN): White supremacist group’s recruitment flyers have people in Columbus on edge.
The Root: Why is Virginia Tech silent about a white-supremacist instructor threatening and harassing an undergrad?
Fresno Bee (CA): Two men are charged with hate crimes after a dispute on the street turns bloody.
Olympian (WA): Man to serve four years for hate-crime stabbing of mixed-race couple in downtown Olympia.
BuzzFeed: Detectives raise lots of questions about California mom’s supposed kidnapping at hands of Latina women.
