Hatewatch Headlines 11/8/2017

BuzzFeed: Here’s how a false conspiracy theory about the Texas shooter being antifa went viral.

Snopes: No, the Texas church shooter was not a Muslim convert named ‘Samir al-Hajeed,’ either.

Mother Jones: Bundy’s legal team includes a birther, an alleged Ponzi schemer, and an ex-white supremacist.

Marketplace: Half of white millennials believe discrimination against whites is as big a problem as people of color face.

Media Matters: NBC just dangerously normalized the misogynistic alt-right associated ‘Proud Boys.’

Think Progress: Shopify is helping to monetize the latest white-nationalist meme, ‘It’s Okay to Be White.’

AV Club: Please enjoy this interviewer embarrassing a breathtakingly smug Richard Spencer.

Right Wing Watch: Pamela Geller predicts ‘no-go zones’ in United States within the next 10 years.

Salon: Virginia school-board candidate targets high-school student in wildly transphobic TV ad.

Mail-Tribune (Medford, OR): White-nationalist ‘True Cascadia’ posters upset local residents, spur confrontations.

LGBTQ Nation: Some of America’s most notorious anti-LGBT activists are in Egypt as that nation arrests gay men.

Eagle-Tribune (Amherst, MA): Massachusetts governor revives hate-crimes panel because of uptick in incidents.

Phoenix New Times (AZ): Despite armed protests, CAIR-Arizona banquet gets a record turnout.

Miami Herald (FL): Six Miami firefighters fired after noose, lewd drawings targeting black colleague are found.

Raw Story: Police in Michigan search for hate-crime suspect who allegedly beat up 17-year-old boy ‘because he’s gay’.

Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, MN): Swastika, anti-Semitic graffiti under investigation at Macalester College campus.

Morning Call (Allentown, PA): Jewish students in Lehigh County besieged with hateful online messages, ADL reports.

KNKX-FM (Tacoma, WA): White nationalist banners reported hanging from freeway overpasses in Tacoma, Gig Harbor.

Reveal News: The Hate Report: A swastika pumpkin and KKK propaganda on Halloween.