Hatewatch Headlines 10/3/2018
The pipeline from 4chan to Fox News; Media figures back white nationalist candidate; Silence on white supremacy harms surveillance work; and more.
Media Matters: Backlash to anti-Kavanaugh tweet illustrates pipeline from 4chan to Tucker Carlson’s Fox show.
Right Wing Watch: Right-wing media figures rally behind a white nationalist running for mayor of Toronto.
Human Rights Watch: Silence about white supremacy in U.S. surveillance rhetoric matters.
Reuters: Pentagon gets suspected ricin-laced packages in mail, FBI is investigating.
Think Progress: North Carolina’s anti-transgender law is undermined by federal court ruling.
Mother Jones: Government report details Trump administration’s incompetent implementation of family separation policy.
Washington Post: Trump anti-discrimination official apologizes for racially tinged blog posts.
USA Today: City council approves a change of name for Atlanta’s Confederate Avenue.
Pacific Standard: Atlanta has built a task force to change street names honoring white supremacists.
Oregonian: FBI agent shot by booby-trapped wheelchair in home of man who engaged in armed standoff.
Herald-Tribune (Sarasota, FL): White nationalist Peter Gemma resigns from Sarasota GOP executive committee.
Seattle P-I (WA): Man accused of ‘chillingly cold-blooded’ slaying of Renton man had white-supremacist background.
Haaretz: Dutch man assaulted in Berlin in alleged anti-Semitic attack.
Independent (UK): German youths stab independent journalist after confrontation, perform Hitler salute.
