‘Trump is president … they’ll deport you soon’: Man filmed unloading on Muslim Uber driver
A man was recorded on video lashing out at another motorist while at a stop light in a New York neighborhood. The man, who was driving a white sport-utility vehicle, can be heard calling another driver an “Arab, a “terrorist” and a “loser.” “Trump is president, [expletive]! So you can kiss your [expletive] visa goodbye, […]
Alt-Right Twitter Users Create Fake ‘Black Person’ Accounts Promoting Racism
A pro-Donald Trump white supremacist website called the Daily Stormer said it created 1,000 fake Twitter accounts for fictional black people this week to a way to troll the internet and spread racist ideas. The announcement, which came from a blog post from the website’s founder Andrew Anglin, is a response to Twitter’s recent ban on accounts circulating alt-right […]
The US is not a post-racial society
Donald Trump, the preening peacock of American bigotry, has ascended to the highest perch in the land of Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln. And down whatever path this late night Twitter poster takes the world during his presidency, one thing is clear: he has made racism acceptable again outside the family dinner […]
Trump Has Unleashed a Wave of Anti-Semitic Hatred
As a middle-class, white Ashkenazi Jew living in California in 2016, I’ve been privileged to avoid the systemic, cultural and interpersonal racism faced by many Muslims, immigrants and people of color across the U.S. today. However, my uncle was not as fortunate. He was a Holocaust survivor who saw his entire family killed in front […]
Geert Wilders Trial: Free Speech an Excuse for Racism
Monday saw the start of Geert Wilders’ trial for inciting racial hatred, following his promise at a 2014 rally in The Hague to reduce the number of Moroccans in the Netherlands. Wilders is the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, which has been prominent in Dutch politics since the mid-2000s and […]
Race or Religion? Exploring Hostilities Among Voters
Political scientists have long noted that politics is a competition between groups with diverse and competing interests. During campaigns, candidates actively attempt to sway certain groups and vilify others in order to garner support. In this year’s election, scholars and commentators have argued that the success of Donald Trump’s…
White Supremacists: Trump Is The ‘Last Stand’ For The White Race
This is both good news and really REALLY bad news: America’s white supremacists are placing all of their hopes on Donald trump making America white again: “Many white supremacists see this as their last stand for controlling the country,” Heidi Beirich, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said on a […]
US elections: This is not a time for jokes
White supremacy in the United States is dying. Many, including me, have said this before. White supremacy – the implicit acceptance of the superiority of white people and culture – is slowly being pushed aside as people (themselves slowly) accept the reality that “white culture” is nothing more than one stop on the global tour […]
WATCH: This Is What Goes On At Trump Rallies
New York Times reporters have been gathering footage of Donald Trump rallies across the nation for more than a year, and what they have found is shocking and terrifying. According to this footage released earlier this week, Trump rallies are a space where his supporters feel comfortable expressing extreme, offensive behavior and racism. “Fuck that […]
Until Trump, no openly racist candidate in modern times has reached such a height in U.S. politics
Even if Donald Trump’s current wave of bungling results in a much-deserved loss to Hillary Clinton in November, his rise to the status of Republican presidential candidate will stand as a unique historic achievement. It has to be regarded as an event like the one memorably described by a long-ago Toronto politician as “the most […]