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.
: Backlash to anti-Kavanaugh tweet illustrates pipeline from 4chan to Tucker Carlson’s Fox show.
: Right-wing media figures rally behind a white nationalist running for mayor of Toronto.
: Silence about white supremacy in U.S. surveillance rhetoric matters.
: Pentagon gets suspected ricin-laced packages in mail, FBI is investigating.
: North Carolina’s anti-transgender law is undermined by federal court ruling.
: Government report details Trump administration’s incompetent implementation of family separation policy.
: Trump anti-discrimination official apologizes for racially tinged blog posts.
: City council approves a change of name for Atlanta’s Confederate Avenue.
: Atlanta has built a task force to change street names honoring white supremacists.
: FBI agent shot by booby-trapped wheelchair in home of man who engaged in armed standoff.
: White nationalist Peter Gemma resigns from Sarasota GOP executive committee.
: Man accused of ‘chillingly cold-blooded’ slaying of Renton man had white-supremacist background.
: Dutch man assaulted in Berlin in alleged anti-Semitic attack.
: German youths stab independent journalist after confrontation, perform Hitler salute.