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Hatewatch Headlines 10/4/2016

Twitter hate speech finding few limits; Millennial Jews awaken to anti-Semitism; Trump fans’ racist code words; and more.

New York Times: On Twitter, hate speech is only bounded by a character limit.

Politico: In a time of Trump, millennial Jews awaken to the harsh realities of anti-Semitism.

Raw Story: Here are the racist code words Trump’s social media fans are using to avoid being banned.

Washington Post: Donald Trump is normalizing bigotry.

Media Matters: In discussing ‘rigged’ debates, Alex Jones warns that CNN’s Anderson Cooper is a CIA plant.

BBC: Historic black school in Virginia vandalized with racist graffiti after fund-raiser brings attention to it.

Talking Points Memo: Appeals court knocks Mike Pence’s anti-refugee policy as discrimination.

Courthouse News Service: North Carolina gun-rights group raffles off an AR-15, 1,000 rounds of ammo and portrait of Clinton.

Santa Cruz Patch (CA): Police are seeking a young white man leaving ‘white supremacy’ packages around college campus town.

Right Wing Watch: GOA’s Larry Pratt opines that the Founders would want everyone to carry an M-16 ‘at a minimum.’

Dearborn Patch (MI): White male shot by Michigan State Police claimed ‘sovereign citizen’ status.

Think Progress: Republicans embrace a notoriously racist political tactic with anti-Tim Kaine ads.

Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV): Bundys’ attorney says FBI agents posed as documentary filmmakers during investigation.

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