Hatewatch Headlines 8/22/2017
How hate groups forced online platforms’ hand; Tennessee monument protest in works; Journalists struggle to write about Nazis; and more.
New York Times Magazine: How hate groups forced online platforms to reveal their true nature.
GQ: Dylann Roof: The making of a very American terrorist.
Politico: How a man who shot video of the Charlottesville rampage became embroiled in conspiracy theories.
Washington Post: The shadow of a Nazi assassinated in 1967 hangs over Charlottesville.
USA Today: White supremacists plan monument protest, summit in Tennessee.
Houston Chronicle: Houston man charged with trying to plant bomb at base of Confederate monument.
Media Matters: Media shouldn’t sugarcoat Trump’s calls for violence and hate.
Current Affairs: How to write about Nazis – and how not to.
Columbia Journalism Review: The white-supremacist threat deserves its own beat in newsrooms.
New Statesman: We need to talk about the online radicalization of young white women, too.
AlterNet: White communities need to ferret out the domestic terrorists in their midst.
ABC News: White nationalist leaders on their beliefs: ‘We look up to men like Adolf Hitler.’
Think Progress: Historians of Christian nationalism are alarmed by its appearance in American pulpits.
Quartz: Linguistic analysis of three billion Reddit comments shows the alt-right is getting stronger.
CNN: Trump nominee Sam Clovis says ‘logical’ LGBT protections could lead to legalization of pedophilia.
KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO): Missouri militia counters social-justice rally on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza.
AL.com: Groups organize for, against Auburn High teacher’s Pride flag in his classroom.
KPIX-TV (San Francisco): Armed ‘Oath Keepers’ militia group expected to attend San Francisco far-right rally.
Raw Story: Alt-right cancels California book burning of ‘degenerate literature’ after organizer says he fears liberals.
Huffington Post: Law firm boots patent attorney who owns neo-Nazi record label on the side.
