Hatewatch Headlines 7/2/2018

CNN: Trump appointee guts U.N. document on racism, says leaders don’t have duty to condemn hate speech.

New York Times: Three black U.S. senators introduce bill to make lynching a federal hate crime.

Right Wing Watch: Tony Perkins says religious right can do for gay rights what it’s done for abortions.

Salon: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had murky links to the alt-right.

Huffington Post: The dark parts of the Internet are celebrating the Capital Gazette slayings.

Forbes: YouTube has said they ‘let the LGBT community down’ in a Twitter statement.

McClatchy: For NumbersUSA, a longtime backer of hardline immigration measures, the time is now.

Miami New Times (FL): Miami’s top Homeland Security agent wants to distance his force from ICE’s detentions.

Game Revolution: Former white supremacist leader says multiplayer gaming is used for recruitment.

Inlander (Spokane, WA): Left-wing Spokane groups are trying to figure out how to combat alt-right groups with making them stronger.

Think Progress: Charlottesville rally organizer is lonely, desperate for mainstream acceptance, chat logs reveal.

Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA): Charlottesville judge awards Unite the Right organizer $5 for activist cursing at him

Daily Beast: Pro-Trump campus group Turning Point USA has its finances revealed.

Journal-News (Dayton, OH): Ohio lawmakers back bill requiring teachers to out transgender kids to their parents.

WHNT-TV (Huntsville, AL): Ex-teacher accused of pulling gun on immigration protesters.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA): Police charge suburban councilman with driving his car through crowd of immigration protesters.

Philly Voice (PA): Police say porch explosion in Southwest Philly might be a hate crime.

Sun-Sentinel (Broward, FL): South Florida man pleads guilty to making bomb threats against mosque.

The Jewish Chronicle: Heinrich Himmler’s unrepentant Nazi daughter Gudrun Burwitz dies at 88.