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Values Voter Summit – or Anti-LGBT Hate Fest?
04 months ago
by Mark Potok
in Anti-LGBT
Starting today, a number of prominent public figures will be attending and speaking at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of socially conservative activists in Washington. But just what kind of values are they promoting?
The summit is hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC) and co-hosted by the American Family Association (AFA) –groups that [...]
Values Voter Summit – or Anti-LGBT Hate Fest?
04 months ago
by Mark Potok
in Anti-LGBT
Starting today, a number of prominent public figures will be attending and speaking at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of socially conservative activists in Washington. But just what kind of values are they promoting?
The summit is hosted by the Family Research Council (FRC) and co-hosted by the American Family Association (AFA) –groups that [...]
Okay, Now It’s All Clear…
04 months ago
Move over, Glenn Beck. The amusingly misnamed Accuracy in Media, a far-right organization that generally spends its time defaming gay people and all things on the political left, yesterday published an exhaustive, and exhausting, report that purports to unmask a Latino rights organization. And it makes the former Fox News host’s famous blackboard look downright [...]
DOJ Says Suffolk County, N.Y., Police Need Improvements on Hate Crimes
04 months ago
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent a letter (pdf) to officials yesterday suggesting non-mandatory improvements in the way that the Suffolk County, N.Y., Police Department (SFPD) investigates hate crimes and other practices. The preliminary findings letter was part of a DOJ investigation of the department’s “patterns and practices” in the wake of the 2008 murder [...]
SPLC and Mississippi Lawyer File Suit in Racial Murder
05 months ago
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined Mississippi attorney Winston J. Thompson III in filing a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the family of a black man who was beaten in a motel parking lot and then run over and killed. The New York Times also detailed the case, in which SPLC accuses seven white [...]
New Intelligence Report Released Today
05 months ago
The latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, released today, focuses on the threat of homegrown Muslim terrorists, even as it warns in an editorial against demonizing Muslims in the U.S. and neglecting threats from white supremacists and others on the radical right. Entitled “Ten Years After,” a reference to the Islamist [...]
As 9/11 Anniversary Approaches, a Call for Balance
05 months ago
by Mark Potok
in Anti-Muslim
Even before a Norwegian madman named Anders Behring Breivik opened fire this July on fellow citizens he believed were abetting large-scale Muslim immigration, it was clear that Islamophobic propaganda, much of it from American politicians and activists, was having a poisonous effect on Western societies.
And the revelation that Breivik had imbibed much of the propaganda [...]
Beck’s Latest Racist Remarks Draw Hate Group Accolades
05 months ago
The white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) is reacting with obvious delight to the latest racist rant from former Fox News host Glenn Beck. On Sunday, sandwiched between snippets of “shocking statistics” about black crime, ads for books by Holocaust deniers, and “news stories” like “Philadelphia School Cheating: Blacks in Charge,” the CCC posted [...]
Conservative Magazine Writer Slurs Interview Subject Publicly
05 months ago
by Mark Potok
in Antigovernment
Human Events, a conservative magazine once described as Ronald Reagan’s favorite reading, published an article today entitled “The Truth about the Oath Keepers.” It detailed the group, which is mainly made up of law enforcement officials and military veterans who promise to re-swear their oath to defend the Constitution, and also the criticisms made of [...]
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Spike in California in Possible Trend
05 months ago
Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported Wednesday. That dramatic rise, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.
The numbers may be indicative of a renewed national rise in hate crimes directed at Latinos, who are often [...]