Hatewatch Headlines 5/22/2017
Study finds right-wing terror a significant threat; New Orleans takes down its last Confederacy monument; Black congressman gets lynching threats; and more.
Newsweek: Right-wing and radical Islamist terrorism in the U.S. are equally serious threats, ADL reports.
Washington Post: New Orleans removes Robert E. Lee statue, the last of its monuments to the Confederacy.
BuzzFeed: Trump supporters have built a document with the addresses and phone numbers of thousands of anti-Trump activists.
Talking Points Memo: Black congressman says he was threatened with lynching after calling for Trump impeachment.
Baltimore Sun: Random, racially motivated stabbing murder of Bowie State student investigated as hate crime.
CNN: Extremist Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master’s thesis on homeland security.
Media Matters: Alt-right trolls Chuck Johnson and Mike Cernovich launch websites aimed at harassing journalists.
Medium: How Breitbart helped build a safe space for hateful snowflakes.
The Hill: Richard Spencer loses his gym membership after fellow member confronts him for his white nationalism.
Think Progress: Trump’s immigration crackdown relies a controversial cell-phone tracking device.
NPR: Feeling sidelined by mainstream social-media platforms, far-right users are making the jump to Gab.
Right Wing Watch: Montana congressional candidate Gianforte has close ties to extremist home-schooling pastor.
KLTV-TV (Longview, TX): How the skull of an Aryan Brotherhood member from Longview wound up in Oklahoma.
East Bay Times (Oakland, CA): Sikh hate-crime victim to attackers: ‘I still consider you my brothers.’
