Category: Editor's Pick

They’re Back: Racist Music Sampler to be Distributed to Schools

Posted in Editor's Pick, Racist Music by Sonia Scherr on December 10, 2008

Four years after a neo-Nazi record label provoked a nationwide outcry by distributing hate rock to middle and high school students, one of the men behind that ambitious recruitment drive is at it again.
White power music broker Bryant Cecchini, who uses the alias Byron Calvert, recently announced on his website that he had begun distribution [...]

FAIR Claims Demonizing Rhetoric Unrelated to Anti-Latino Violence

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Editor's Pick by Mark Potok on December 5, 2008

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the most important anti-immigration group in America, recently issued an angry press release denouncing those who suggest that demonizing nativist rhetoric leads to hate violence. FAIR said that this “outrageous behavior” was part of “a calculated strategy” aimed at “silenc[ing] legitimate immigration policy debate” and added that those [...]

Ideologues Call for Post-Election Militia Revival

Posted in Editor's Pick, Media Extremism by David Holthouse on November 19, 2008

As the anti-Obama backlash continues to play out, with new reports of effigy lynchings, racist graffiti and other disturbing incidents surfacing daily, a number of voices on the far-right fringe are calling for a revival of the militia movement, a loose confederation of hyper-survivalist paramilitary groups that claim legitimacy under the Militia Clause of the [...]