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Category Archives: Traitor
Fox Executive Condemns Remarks by Guest on Lou Dobbs Show – The New York Times
Earlier last week, Mr. Dobbs tweeted twice claiming that bomb threats aimed at the news media and prominent Democrats were false. He later deleted the tweets.
Opinion | The Hate Poisoning America – The New York Times
After Pittsburgh, Americans need to ask more of their leaders, and of each other.
Opinion | When Hate Goes Mainstream – The New York Times
eeding this upsurge in hate is the toxic soup of anti-Semitism found online. According to a report that the A.D.L. released just a day before the Pittsburgh attack, far-right extremists and the so-called alt-right have stepped up their efforts on social media to attack and intimidate Jews, and especially Jewish journalists, in the run up to the midterm elections. These radicals engaged in “Twitter bombing” of Jews, barraging our community with an estimated five million highly politicized and anti-Semitic tweets per day. Social media creates its own realities for individuals, where people feed off the anonymity and tailor what they read and whom they speak with so that it can feel that everyone thinks and talks as you do. As much as this is distorting, it also can be empowering. Similarly emboldening is when anti-Semitism and hateful rhetoric is elevated or tolerated, either through appropriating the anti-Semites’ rhetoric outright, “dog-whistling” to them, or allowing their hate to go unanswered. And this is what has accelerated over the past few years. Anti-Semitism is being normalized in public life.
The ADL warned of antisemitic harassment. Then Pittsburgh happened | Cas Mudde | Opinion | The Guardian
Responses to the three attacks have been predictable. Far-right pundits and websites claimed the pipe bombings were a “false flag” operation, continuing to spread bizarre conspiracy theories even after the suspect was arrested. Conservatives pulled out their usual “crazy person” defense, calling attack after attack an “incident”. Trump functioned, as always, as the amplifier-in-chief, initially suggesting a false flag operation with regard to the pipe bomber and calling the Pittsburgh shooter “a maniac”, before using the tragedy to call upon houses of worship to arm themselves and to openly muse about the importance of reinstating the death penalty – nationwide, I assume. Advertisement The media played its usual role, too. Don’t even try to look for the words “terror” or “terrorist”. The suspects are “attackers” or “shooters” and journalists bend over backwards to not “jump to conclusions” on their motives. Instead, they are happily speculating about their mental health, as if that would exclude the possibility of far-right terrorism.
Opinion | The Barbarians Are Within – The New York Times
There comes a moment, when the barbarian is within, to draw a line, to say enough, to speak out, to make a stand whatever the cost. The desperation of mortality can also yield the lucidity of courage.
From tweets to bombs, suspect’s rage at Trump foes escalated | Reuters – Twitter and Terror…
Two weeks ago, Sayoc threatened a former Democratic congressional spokeswoman on Twitter after her appearance on Fox News. The tweet warned her to “hug your loved ones real close every time you leave” home. The woman, Rochelle Ritchie, reported him to Twitter, but the company found he had not violated any conduct rules.
Source: From tweets to bombs, suspect’s rage at Trump foes escalated | Reuters
Trump Turns Tragedy of Migrant Caravan into Fake Terrorism Threat | La Prensa San Diego
The caravan is still thousands of miles from the U.S. but that hasn’t stopped Trump and his friends from declaring a new threat to the U.S. Without citing any evidence, and in complete contradiction of his own Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Trump this week claimed that ISIS and other terrorist groups have embedded themselves within the caravan, adding that “Middle Easterners” were mixed in among the refugees. No evidence exists to support that claim, and, when pressed for proof of his claims by a reporter, Trump finally admitted “there is no proof of anything”.
Source: Trump Turns Tragedy of Migrant Caravan into Fake Terrorism Threat | La Prensa San Diego
Report: Escalating Trade War Threatens 460,000 Jobs
Racial abuse on Ryanair: this is like Rosa Parks in reverse | Hugh Muir | Opinion | The Guardian
Those who sat and did nothing might also reflect. One man, David Lawrence, filmed the abuse and posted on social media. Good for him. That is why the case became a cause celebre. But others sat by – keener to get home perhaps than to stand up for an elderly woman being racially abused. They also owed her the duty of care we all owe each other, not least the vulnerable. If we lose sight of that, all is lost.
Source: Racial abuse on Ryanair: this is like Rosa Parks in reverse | Hugh Muir | Opinion | The Guardian
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