Hatewatch Headlines 8/21/2018
Protesters tear down ‘Silent Sam’ on UNC campus; ADF’s record of hate speaks for itself; ‘Fox & Friends’ sanitizes antigovernment extremists; and more.
Washington Post: Confederate ‘Silent Sam’ statue on North Carolina campus toppled by protesters.
Think Progress: Is Alliance Defending Freedom really a hate group? Just at look at their work.
Media Matters: ‘Fox and Friends’ sanitizes antigovernment extremists bringing violence to cities.
Bellingcat: Far-right activists have spent the past year trying to win over police.
WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC): Addicted to hate: Studying white supremacist groups and the people who leave them.
America’s Voice: Darren Beattie is not the only white nationalist working inside the White House.
USA Today: Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones destroyed evidence, according to court motion.
Oregonian: Black teen attacked in potential hate crime following dispute at music festival over Confederate flag.
Pacific Standard: Beyond Charlottesville: The North has a long history with racism, too.
Mother Jones: Civil-rights groups target majority-black Georgia county seeking to shutter most polling places.
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson): Arizona Supreme Court upholds conviction, death sentence for white-supremacist killer.
Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, LA): White supremacists are targeting college campuses, and it’s happening in Louisiana.
Raw Story: Pizzagate conspiracy theorist Mike Cernovich wants his fans to pay him $1000 a month so he can ‘retire from public life.’
AlterNet: Clarence Thomas’ wife Ginni posts far-right meme mocking ‘radicalized’ Parkland shooting survivors.
Right Wing Watch: Meet Georgia’s immigrant-bashing, vote-suppressing candidate for governor, Brian Kemp.
The Telegraph (UK): The rise of the woman haters: Inside the dark world of British ‘incels.’