Hatewatch Headlines 9/27/2018
‘POTUS Shield’ sees Satan behind Kavanaugh woes; Right-wing media fall for 4chan hoax; Anti-discrimination official claimed hate crimes are hoaxes; and more.
Right Wing Watch: Trump’s ‘POTUS Shield’ pastors claim Satan, ‘Wicked Witch of the East’ are out to get Brett Kavanaugh.
Media Matters: Conservative media figures skeptical about Kavanaugh accusers, but readily fall for a 4chan hoax.
Washington Post: Trump anti-discrimination official once claimed most hate crimes were hoaxes.
Think Progress: Anti-LGBT coalition launches new campaign for adoption discrimination.
Mediaite: Laura Ingraham retweets post from white-nationalist VDare, then deletes it.
Orange County Register (CA): For third year in a row, hate crimes directed at Latinos and Muslim rise in Orange County.
New York Post: White supremacist accused of NYC sword murder wanted to purge black people from the planet.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA): Feds say man charged with possession of machine gun promised to carry out hate crime.
Daily Journal (Murfreesboro, TN): Anti-gay assault case in brutal beating handed over to jury after weeklong trial.
New York Daily News: Brute knocks two men unconscious in Brooklyn anti-LGBT bias attack, police say.
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL): Wonder Lake man scrawled swastika, ‘white power’ on black man’s car, police say.
Mother Jones: Rep. Duncan Hunter suggests his opponent is part of ‘Islamist’ plot to infiltrate the government.
Salon: Why did the NRA back 3-D gun guy Cody Wilson so long? He was always a shady character.
Colorado Times Recorder (Denver): Statehouse candidate Grady Nouis promotes and attends hate-group rallies.
Reveal News: Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s new legislation is designed to prevent race-based ‘redlining.’
Right Wing Watch: Gordon Klingenschmitt decries the ‘homosexualization’ of Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie.
Daily Beast: Rudolph Giuliani photographed with white-nationalist mayoral candidate from Toronto.
Press Progress (Canada): Ottawa Premier Doug Ford stands behind this photo he took with a group of extremely racist white nationalists.
Forward: Canadian candidate apologizes for his previous racist, antisemitic trolling on social media.
