Hatewatch Headlines 6/7/2018
Trump’s dangerous conspiracy-theory loop; Neo-Nazi candidate thinks he actually came in first; and more.
Vox: Trump, Fox News and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy-theory loop.
Slate: Will Obergfell be the new Roe? Religious exemptions could chip away at LGBT marriage.
Salon: The Philadelphia Eagles and ‘their president’: Trump’s act of potent symbolic racism.
Right Wing Watch: Defeated neo-Nazi candidate Patrick Little thinks he actually came in ‘first or second.’
Huffington Post: How a polling choice made an obscure neo-Nazi appear to be a legitimate contender.
Medium: The Republican Party has a neo-Nazi problem.
Think Progress: This is how memes are weaponized to propel hate speech.
Associated Press: California legislators pass bill that would set standards for hate crime policies.
Wisconsin Gazette: Attorney General Brad Schimel’s secret conference appearance broke the law.
Boston Patch (MA): Anti-LGBT gubernatorial candidate Scott Lively sues baker for $7 million.
WTOP-TV (Washington, DC): Number of hate crimes in Virginia increased in 2017 from 137 to 202.
Raw Story: Kentucky Nazi dies in head-on car crash; other driver was young white woman drinking bourbon.
AL.com: Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin, who pocketed money earmarked to feed inmates, loses GOP primary.
Little Green Footballs: Court knocks down Holocaust-denying troll Chuck C. Johnson’s lawsuit against Twitter.
Haaretz: German investigating man believed to have been a key member of notorious Nazi death squads.
Huffington Post: How men get to the point that the begin identifying with misogynist ‘incels.’
