White supremacists are calling for a boycott of the latest “Star Wars” movie as evidence of a Jewish plot to foist racial diversity on whites, even as some on the “alt-right” say they watch the film and root for the evil Empire. “(((Star Wars))) Is Anti-White Social Engineering,” a Reddit user named GenFrancoPepe posted in…
Right-wing-personality Ann Coulter once again proved her close ties to white nationalism by speaking at the annual “Writers Workshop” event put on by the anti-immigrant and white nationalist publishing house The Social Contract Press. Video of the event was uploaded late last month and discovered this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a…
The “alt-right” has catapulted to the spotlight in the wake of Donald Trump’s win. The decentralized movement, led largely by white nationalists like Richard Spencer, has championed Trump from the early days of his campaign, seeing in him a figure who would allow their dreams of building a “white ethno-state” go mainstream. Now that Trump…
By this point, we’ve been forced to acknowledge the existence of a certain group among Donald Trump supporters — a group that is arguably defined by white nationalism, bigotry, and all the worst undercurrents in American thought that helped bring Trump to power. That group, whether we like it or not (and, decidedly, this author does…
At Mother Jones, Kevin Drum wondered why everyone’s talking about “white supremacy” these days, rather than just talking about “racism.” Had he wondered this, oh, I don’t know, in June, this might have been a contrarian but useful point: In one understanding “white supremacy” is the entire system, encompassing everything from racist beauty standards to…
The ‘alt-right’ has used the Internet as one of its primary weapons to harass, troll and chat over the course of the election season. Now, there’s an Internet tool to fight back against the motley crew of white nationalists — a plug-in to the Web browser Google Chrome that turns the word “alt-right” into “white…
I honestly can’t believe that on the same day that I posted an article about a Portuguese restaurant that was vandalized by “activists” who apparently opposed the chef’s recent trip to Israel for a food festival, I now have to report that a DC-area Italian restaurant just issued an apology for inadvertently hosting a white…
In the Daily Beast, Asawin Suebsaeng reports on one heck of a white nationalist convention. The most intriguing guest: one Tila Tequila, known for reality-TV appearances and general scandalousness. Suebsaeng reminds that Tequila “has dabbled in casual anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi declarations over the years, to the point where she has been condemned by the Anti-Defamation…
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