Hatewatch Headlines 11/23/2016
Trump disavows the ‘alt-right,’ sort of; Are media normalizing racist beliefs?; Identity pastor wants crackdown on Jews; and more.
CNN: Donald Trump disavows the ‘alt-right,’ claims his campaign did nothing to encourage them.
Mother Jones: White nationalists see Trump as their troll-in-chief, but is he with them?
Salon: Being led by an outright conspiracy theorist like Trump puts us all in danger.
Right Wing Watch: Listen to Steve Bannon extolling the racist ‘alt-right’ a week before joining Trump’s campaign.
Washington Post: ‘Let’s party like it’s 1933’: Inside the weird alt-right world of Richard Spencer.
The Daily Beast: Is the mainstream media normalizing neo-Nazis?
Boing Boing: CNN chryon over news talk show reads: ‘Alt-Right Founder Questions If Jews Are People’.
Think Progress: We will no longer describe racists as the ‘alt-right.’
Media Matters: CNN’s David Gergen points out that Trump’s chief strategist ran a website that gave neo-Nazis a ‘platform’ and ‘oxygen.’
USA Today: Charleston shooter Dylann Roof’s competency hearing goes into second day.
Raw Story: White supremacist ‘Christian Identity’ pastor begs Trump to crack down on the Jews.
BuzzFeed: Tila Tequila suspended from Twitter for posting hate speech.
Missoulian: Montana elector quips that gays should be hanged ‘up where they can be seen and appreciated.’
AlterNet: An insider’s view of fundamentalist America and its dark rigidity.
