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Once Again, FAIR Reveals Its Black Heart of Hate
01 day ago
by Mark Potok
in anti-immigrant
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has never been a pleasant organization. Its top leaders have warned shrilly of a “Latin onslaught,” defended a racist 1924 quota system, insisted that America needs a “European-American majority,” and fretted that Latinos are “outbreeding” white people. Its founder has sought ways to sterilize unmarried mothers, corresponded with [...]
Utah Republican AG Derides ‘Help’ From Nativist Organization
01 week ago
by Mark Potok
in Nativist Extremist
It’s long been something of a mystery how conservative Republicans can expect to keep winning elections when so many of them spend their time dissing Latinos, a critical and rapidly growing portion of the electorate. Indeed, many Latino rights organizations argue persuasively that it was Latino voters who took Barack Obama over the top in [...]
Westboro Gay-Bashers Plan to Picket Paterno’s Funeral
01 week ago
by Mark Potok
in Anti-LGBT
Always eager for the next outrage, the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church — already infamous worldwide for its “God Hates Fags” website and its regular picketing of American soldiers’ funerals — says it will picket the funeral of Penn State football coaching legend Joe Paterno.
The church, largely composed of pastor Fred Phelps and his extended family, [...]
Anti-Gay Haters Plan Press Conference Today at SPLC
02 weeks ago
Today at noon, a group of the nastiest gay-bashers in America plans to hold a press conference in front of the Montgomery, Ala., offices of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which publishes this blog. Claiming that the SPLC is engaged in a “campaign to demonize adherents of traditional Judeo-Christian morality,” the white organizers of [...]
The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 5th Annual Smackdown Awards
01 month ago
Another year, another horror. As we close out another 12 months of mayhem, criminal violence and just plain stupidity on the radical right, it’s time, once again, to compile our annual year-end roster of winners of Hatewatch’s Smackdown Awards. And this year’s been a doozy — from neo-Nazis trying to hide their past to irrepressible [...]
What Occupy Wall Street Was Not
02 months ago
by Mark Potok
in Anti-Semitic
As the Occupy Wall Street protesters are swept out of their encampments around the nation, many are asking what the movement’s next step will be and if the police actions might actually help the two-month-old populist outburst grow.
But even for those seeking to discern the future of the OWS movement, a more instructive question might [...]
New Intelligence Report Released Today
02 months ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center today released the latest issue of its quarterly investigative magazine on the radical right, Intelligence Report. Overall, the issue covers the extreme right’s increasingly heated rhetoric, laced with talk of war and weaponry, as it faces the possibility of four more years under a black president.
The issue’s cover story focuses [...]
FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence
02 months ago
Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City.
Although the national statistics compiled by the FBI each year are known to dramatically understate the real level [...]
Alleged Georgia Plotters Belonged to Racist, Anti-Semitic Group
03 months ago
The FBI undercover tapes of four North Georgia militiamen arrested Tuesday offer an extraordinary glimpse of the terrorism the group is accused of planning. Details of how they allegedly intended to commit mass murder with deadly ricin, carry out assassinations of officials, and bomb government buildings abound in government affidavits that directly quote the men [...]
Georgia Militiamen Arrested in Major Domestic Terror Plot
03 months ago
Four members of an unnamed North Georgia militia planned to attack cities including Atlanta with deadly ricin, bomb federal buildings and murder law enforcement officials and others, according to charges leveled yesterday.
The four elderly men were arrested after a lengthy investigation that began last March, when a confidential informant began secretly recording the group’s conversations. [...]