admin | December 20, 2019
The gesture is not the only symbol to have been appropriated and swiftly weaponized by alt-right internet trolls. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified memes featuring the hoax religion of Kek and the cartoon character Pepe the Frog, among others, as being at the forefront of white nationalists efforts to distract and infuriate liberals.
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admin | December 20, 2019
The Republican-controlled Senate quietly cut the phrase white nationalist from a measure in the National Defense Authorization Act, which was intended to explicitly address the threat of white nationalists in the military, altering the language of a House-passed amendment before passing the massive military spending bill Tuesday. The House amendment, which was passed in July, was drafted to explicitly study the feasibility of screening for white nationalist beliefs in military enlistees
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admin | December 20, 2019
You might call it a guilty pleasure, or pretend you dont really care.
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admin | December 20, 2019
By Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter, & Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol Bureau chief Chapel Hill, N.C. The University of North Carolina system's $2.5 million deal to get rid of the "Silent Sam" Confederate monument will be back before a judge Friday. A pair of attorneys once attached to UNC, along with several students and a professor, hope to have the agreement tossed and the university's money returned
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admin | December 20, 2019
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released a two-part report on the online postingsunder a variety of aliases and on several sitesof David Anderson, one of the two perpetrators of the deadly attack on a kosher grocery store in Jersey City. Emerging from these postings is an amalgam of ideas about Jews and the Bible shaped by Black Hebrew Israelite groups and the Nation of Islamgroups Anderson nonetheless rejected as insufficiently extremeand the fringes of the far-right and far-left
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admin | December 20, 2019
By Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum It has been said that the world is warmer and brighter between December and January than it is between January and December. The reasons are obvious. December is the month of giving and of religious and secular celebrations
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admin | December 20, 2019
PewDiePie at the European Premiere of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' on December 16, 2015 in London. Topline: After facing years of criticism for his supposed ties to the alt-right, YouTube megastar PewDiePie announced over the weekend that hes taking a break from the platform and deleted his Twitter account, saying that hes tired. Key background: Kjellberg is YouTubes most popular and recognizable stars, but hes been accused of anti-Semitism and racism over the years
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admin | December 20, 2019
The latest eruption of the OK gesture as secret sign of White Power is a video clip from the broadcast of the Army/Navy game. Ross: No culture wars this Christmas, but we did get a skirmish You could see two of the cadets nearby making an upside down OK gesture
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admin | December 20, 2019
Rob Acker at Dreamforce When Salesforceannounced plans back in April 2019 to acquire its Salesforce.org philanthropy arm for $300 million, questions were immediately asked about how the move could simultaneously satisfy both Salesforceinvestors and non-profit customers. Would investors gripe at the inevitable hit to profit margins that would arise from taking on an independent organization, being run as a public-benefit corporation to offer software for free or at highly discounted rates? Or - as seemed more likely - should non-profit customers brace themselves for unpalatable price hikes
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admin | December 20, 2019
The Beverly Hills Police Department on Wednesday arrested a suspect in a case of vandalism at a Beverly Hills synagogue over the weekend. Nathaniel Anton Redding, 24, of Millersville, Pennsylvania, was charged with vandalism of a religious property and commercial burglary, CBS Los Angeles reported. The charges against Redding also include a penalty enhancement for carrying out a hate crime.
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