Hatewatch Headlines 11/8/2017
Conspiracy theories spread about shooter; Bundy legal team stocked with extremists; NBC normalizes ‘Proud Boys’ in segment; and more.
: Here’s how a false conspiracy theory about the Texas shooter being antifa went viral.
: No, the Texas church shooter was not a Muslim convert named ‘Samir al-Hajeed,’ either.
: Bundy’s legal team includes a birther, an alleged Ponzi schemer, and an ex-white supremacist.
: Half of white millennials believe discrimination against whites is as big a problem as people of color face.
: NBC just dangerously normalized the misogynistic alt-right associated ‘Proud Boys.’
: Shopify is helping to monetize the latest white-nationalist meme, ‘It’s Okay to Be White.’
: Please enjoy this interviewer embarrassing a breathtakingly smug Richard Spencer.
: Pamela Geller predicts ‘no-go zones’ in United States within the next 10 years.
: Virginia school-board candidate targets high-school student in wildly transphobic TV ad.
: White-nationalist ‘True Cascadia’ posters upset local residents, spur confrontations.
: Some of America’s most notorious anti-LGBT activists are in Egypt as that nation arrests gay men.
: Massachusetts governor revives hate-crimes panel because of uptick in incidents.
: Despite armed protests, CAIR-Arizona banquet gets a record turnout.
: Six Miami firefighters fired after noose, lewd drawings targeting black colleague are found.
: Police in Michigan search for hate-crime suspect who allegedly beat up 17-year-old boy ‘because he’s gay’.
: Swastika, anti-Semitic graffiti under investigation at Macalester College campus.
: Jewish students in Lehigh County besieged with hateful online messages, ADL reports.
: White nationalist banners reported hanging from freeway overpasses in Tacoma, Gig Harbor.
: The Hate Report: A swastika pumpkin and KKK propaganda on Halloween.