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Tag: Racism
Cuba’s parliament now has three black vice presidents. How come that didn’t that make the news?
Monuments and Their History
Twitter Japan is Not a Safe Space for Minority Users
Racists Look Emboldened. They’re Actually Terrified.
(OtherWords) – The act of terrorism that killed one person and injured others in Charlottesville, Virginia was horrific. There will be more days like these. Angry, cowardly, fear-mongering white supremacists have been emboldened by a president they see as the last…
@YESYOURERACIST Crowdsources Social Preferencing
(Garrison) – The Twitter account @YesYoureRacist went up in 2012, but jumped from about 65,000 followers to more than 350,000 in the days following Virginia’s “Battle of Charlottesville.” After an army of white nationalists rioted to “Unite the Right,” murdering one…
Marine Le Pen Adviser Found Guilty of Inciting Hatred against Muslims
France (Tasnim) – A key adviser to France’s ultra-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of inciting hatred against Muslims. Robert Menard, mayor of Beziers, was fined 2,000 euros for saying there were too many Muslim children in…
The Populist Moment
World (NI) – Don’t just think of it as a dirty word, says Richard Swift; a genuine populism of the Left is long overdue. Populism sure is getting bad reviews. All manner of evil is getting laid at its door: racism, xenophobia,…
India’s xenophobia shame
India (NI) – Hitting Indian headlines right now are stories that fill all decent Indians with sadness and shame. Periodically, recently, we’ve had ugly racist attacks on people ‘not like us’. We’ve always had caste-based prejudice and communal clashes (read: Hindu-Muslim…
Why Iceland Doesn’t Have an Alt-Right Problem
Iceland (FEE) – With the recent rise to prominence of right-wing populist parties across Europe, it’s refreshing that Iceland has remained largely immune to such nationalistic rhetoric. On the continent, figures like Marine Le Pen in France and Geert Wilders in…
Five Forgotten Champions of the Total State
World (FEE) – Most people are aware of the influence of Karl Marx and his ideological compatriots in building 20th-century totalitarianism. But there is another tradition of thought, dating from the early 19th century and continuing through the interwar period, that…
‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in Australia’s Long Sixties
Australia (NM) – Australia’s border regime has been in the press an awful lot of late. Lauded by fringe Neo-Nazis in Germany, in 2015 our former Prime Minister Tony Abbott told a London audience that Europe must adopt a policy of…
6 Non-Racism Reasons to Reject Marine Le Pen
France (FEE) – On the road to the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign is oddly similar to that of Donald Trump: confrontation with the media, nativism, and accusations of xenophobia. To avoid creating sympathy for the far-right candidate…
Inequality is the real backstory to Sweden’s riots
Sweden (WNV) – Mohandas Gandhi famously said that the root of violence is inequality. His view helps us understand what’s behind the headlines about recent rioting in immigrant neighborhoods in Sweden. No one was killed, although one police officer did actually…
Will Breitbart News’ ‘alt-right’ news work in Germany?
Germany (NI) – The website has a huge following in the US, but anti hate speech laws may hinder its German success. For many people, headlines such as ‘Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy’ and ‘Political correctness protects Muslim rape…