Hatewatch Headlines 3/7/2017
White supremacists target college campuses; Porn star veers right; Jones urges Trump to ‘war’ against his opponents; Militiamen provide ‘security’ at rally; and more.
Washington Post: ‘Unprecedented effort’ by ‘white supremacists’ to recruit and target college students, ADL reports.
Media Matters: Alex Jones urges President Trump to use violence against his political opponents.
Salon: Rep. Steve King wants Trump to ‘root out’ the ‘leftists’ who oppose him within the government.
Think Progress: Trump wants to track ‘honor killings’ by Muslims while planning to cut grants dealing with violence against women.
WGVU-FM (Grand Rapids, MI): Armed militiamen show up to provide ‘security’ for pro-Trump rally.
BuzzFeed: Twitter suspends, then reinstates, white supremacist David Duke, who blames it all on ‘the Jews.’
The Guardian (UK): The way liberals focus on the far right, flippantly calling them all ‘Nazis,’ is helping to normalize hate.
Vocativ: How racists use those dropped leaflets to on the media into free coverage that actually draws recruits.
The Olympian (WA): Man with alleged ties to white-supremacist network to face robbery, gun charges.
Raw Story: Video of white student’s remarks – ‘Black piece of shit’ – prompt protest at North Carolina school.
WOSU-FM (Columbus, OH): Man accused of vandalizing Columbus mosque faces hate-crime charges.
Shreveport Times (LA): Police investigate hateful anti-Muslim, white supremacist signs near Bossier mosque.
The Daily Beast: Former porn star Jenna Jameson’s shocking and weird alt-right transformation.
Right Wing Watch: How the American right learned to love Moscow via Trump, giving rise to the ‘Traditionalist International.’
