Rejecting words and actions which perpetrate, support or encourage white supremacists

deactherunner said:

White man accused of trying to hire hit man to kill black neighbor

In addition to the violent racism, it boggles the mind that a random rube thinks he's resourceful enough to contact a hitman.

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Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
Confident their ways are best

The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill

They say there are strangers who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness too dangerous
In our theaters and bookstore shelves
That those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves

Quick to judge
Quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance and prejudice
And fear walk hand in hand...

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WakeForestRanger said:

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Highland Deac said:

According to right-wing news media and conservatives on social media, I'm sure that the real story here will be that a god-fearin', traditional family values white male conservative is being oppressed and victimized by the evil librul elite because he expressed his right to discriminate against gays. Nevermind the implications of people not being able to buy homes simply because they're gay. Conservatives are the real victims here.

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Highland Deac said:

According to right-wing news media and conservatives on social media, I'm sure that the real story here will be that a god-fearin', traditional family values white male conservative is being oppressed and victimized by the evil librul elite because he expressed his right to discriminate against gays. Nevermind the implications of people not being able to buy homes simply because they're gay. Conservatives are the real victims here.

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On May 9, a tipster sent Berger an internal document from within the Proud Boys’ network, which called on all members to find Berger’s personal information and threaten him.

“Let’s get the social media profiles, phone numbers and addresses for their bosses, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, boyfriends, friends and get to work,” it reads. “LET’S SHOW THEM THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES!!!”

Less than two weeks later, a man rang the doorbell at Berger’s house in Pennsylvania. Suddenly, the email he’d brushed off as a joke became a very real threat.

“When I answered the door, he seemed nervous, like he wasn’t expecting me. It was the middle of the day, and my wife was home,” Berger told HuffPost. “He said, ‘Are you Vic? Your videos are hurting a lot of people. You’re really hurting the Proud Boys. You need to stop making these videos.’”

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For five years, the mysterious Twitter account ― which has more than 200,000 followers, including Sean Hannity, Roseanne Barr and the personal account of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and has earned endorsements from Donald Trump and Michael Flynn ― has tirelessly spewed far-right propaganda and, above all, Islamophobia. Around 25 tweets a day, sometimes more, the majority of them designed to stoke hatred of Muslims.

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Mekelburg had also been working with other anti-Muslim activists to try to launch her own organization called “Resistance Against Islamic Radicals” and made a website where she posted photos and contact information of people she believed were “accomplices” to jihadi terrorists. HuffPost reports that the qualifications for being a supposed accomplice were astonishingly low:

“If the local garbage man was seen going into a mosque, you could submit that information to the site and she would post it,” said [Tina] Galasso.

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Or as O’Brien puts it, “What’s happening on the Right is this conflation of anonymity with First Amendment protections. You have to be responsible for what you say.”

Trolls online in the far-right ecosystem are, however, digging up the personal information of O’Brien and fantasizing about violent acts against him and his family. On Gab, the Twitter knock-off popular with Nazis for its purely ornamental community guidelines, users fantasized about giving O’Brien “a baseball bat massage” and doxing “his sorry ass” because he “needs to be personally ruined.” An account identified as a donor and investor to the site wrote: “If Huffington Post Senior Writer Luke O’Brien and/or his family and friends were to meet with some great misfortune, I’d not complain.”

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America, he said, “has been a melting pot for people of European descent.’’

“So if you’re a Swede, a Norwegian, an Irishman and a Frenchman, after the second or third generation, your kids are all alike,’’ Stringer explained. “They don’t have any accents. They’re indistinguishable.’’

Not so with Latinos. Or Asians.

“Talk to Asians,’’ Stringer said. “Even though they’re affluent, they’re an educated, cultured group, they still have a sense of maybe not fully participating in American life.’’

Even African-Americans, he said, “still have not been fully assimilated into American culture.”

Then there’s the Latinos, who have close ties across the border.

“They go back and forth,’’ Stringer said. “They have their connections with their family, their connections with their culture, their language, their connections with their country are stronger than when you came over from Russia, or you came over from the Ukraine, or you came over from Italy or wherever, you were crossing a sea and you didn’t have these lines of connections.’’

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