Hatewatch Headlines 4/17/2017
DeVos’ civil-rights pick fears anti-white discrimination; ICE immigration busts are up 36%; Alt-right helps spread pro-Assad propaganda; and more.
ProPublica: DeVos’ pick to head civil-rights office once said she faced discrimination for being white.
The New York Times: Jeff Sessions, unleashed at the border.
Raw Story: First months of Trump presidency brings 36 percent spike in ICE immigration arrests.
Media Matters: Report details how the alt-right helped spread pro-Assad propaganda.
Huffington Post: White House adviser Stephen Miller, who opposed equal pay and paid leave, now working on ‘women’s issues.’
The Daily Beast: Alt-right figure Mike Cernovich says he’ll ‘drop the motherlode’ if Steve Bannon is ousted.
BuzzFeed: White nationalist leader Richard Spencer says he’ll speak at Auburn despite event being cancelled.
Right Wing Watch: Anti-Muslim ‘adviser’ John Guandolo says it’s time to start ‘locking up’ CAIR officials.
New York Magazine: How the Duke lacrosse scandal helped pave the way for the rise of the alt-right.
Lexington Herald-Leader (KY): White-nationalist groups to move gathering from state park to private property.
WKRC-TV (Cincinnati): Ohio state lawmaker compares Planned Parenthood to Nazi regime on social media.
Santa Fe New Mexican (NM): Pair suspected of ruining copies of Koran at library by urinating on them.
Think Progress: Texas has a new plan for discriminating against LGBT people, now that ‘bathroom bill’ has stalled.
