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Amazon’s policy prohibits the sale of racist and ‘hatred-glorifying’ goods, but a couple of watchdog groups recently found Nazi and white supremacist products sold on the platform. Those products include jewelry adorned with Nazi swastikas and even a children’s book normalizing racist beliefs written by George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party. Now […]
President Donald Trump went after ESPN’s “SC6” broadcaster Jemele Hill on Twitter on Tuesday morning, blaming her for the sports network’s declining ratings. “With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have ‘tanked,’ in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!” tweeted Trump. Trump has recently made a habit […]
Enlarge / Left: The item being remove from Destiny 2. Right: The “Kekistan” meme flag that has become a rallying point for some white supremacists. Earlier this week, when it became clear that a gauntlet in Destiny 2 resembled a “Kekistan” flag design that has been repurposed by neo-Nazis, developer Bungie was quick to apologize […]
YouTube/VICE News CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Police report a white nationalist who says he pepper-sprayed a demonstrator in self-defense on the campus of the University of Virginia has turned himself in. Campus police issued a statement late Wednesday saying Christopher Cantwell of Keene, New Hampshire, was taken into custody at the police department in Lynchburg, […]
What does a white supremacist group need in order to exist? Willing members and charismatic promoters, to state the obvious. But it also, like any other organization these days, needs a website and a way to raise money online. It’s easy for anyone, from a mayoral candidate to a college-age artist advertising her portfolio, to […]
Enlarge (credit: OkCupid) Dating site OkCupid made the unusual move of announcing that it had given a single member a “lifetime” ban on Thursday—and naming him—in order to make a point. “We were alerted that white supremacist Chris Cantwell was on OkCupid,” the company wrote at its official Twitter account on Thursday. “Within 10 minutes, […]
Cloudflare pulls the plug on a white supremacist site, after years of declaring neutrality. https://media.wired.com/photos/5994e19bba0c7811c3ae4ca8/master/pass/Stormer_Credit_Oddjob.jpg Feed: All Latest
In the series “American Hypo-cracy,” OZY looks at America’s lengthy struggle to live up to its lofty ideals by exploring some of the uglier episodes in its past that are often overlooked by the history books. Eight months after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech” in Washington, D.C., another minister and […]
After white nationalists descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, a Twitter account with the handle @YesYoureRacist began soliciting the identities of rally goers based on photographs. “If you recognize any of the Nazis marching in #Charlottesville, send me their names/profiles and I’ll make them famous,” the account tweeted. And by famous, the user of course meant infamous. […]
Enlarge / Flowers commemorate Heather Heyer, victim of Saturday’s deadly car attack in Charlottesville. (credit: Bob Mical) For years, the website Daily Stormer has promoted hatred against Jews, black people, LGBT people, and other minorities, making it one of the Internet’s most infamous destinations. But on Sunday, editor Andrew Anglin outdid himself by publishing a vulgar, […]
