Tag Archives: xenophobia

Except Israelis, of course. At this point in a nauseatingly long election cycle, Donald Trump‘s rampant xenophobia has been well documented. He famously took his bigotry to an entirely unprecedented level following the Paris Attacks when he pledged to ban all Muslims – 1.6 billion people globally – from entering …

As GOP hosts NY State Republican Gala in Midtown, thousands expected to protest outside with the explicit intention of shutting it down New York City and GOP leaders are bracing themselves for some of the largest anti-Trump protests this campaign season, as thousands of people are scheduled to protest the …

Report titled “The Trump Effect: The Impact of the Presidential Campaign on our Nation’s Schools” finds that the campaign is producing an alarming level of fear and anxiety among children of color. A survey of approximately 2,000 teachers by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC) has found that the presidential campaign – …

Two page memo sent to the Washington Post outlines how he will achieve this over three days  Promises to accomplish by using the Patriot Act to track private money transfers from Mexican-Americans to family in Mexico When you’ve had a rough week, return to your xenophobic roots and threaten to …

Less than a day after the Brussels Attacks, and just a few hours removed from calling for the reinstatement of waterboarding and new laws on legal torture, Donald Trump again took his Islamophobic rhetoric to dangerously new heights, blaming Muslims as a whole for the attack and saying the Muslim community …

Responding to vitriolic attacks from Donald Trump that almost make you forget that Ted Cruz is also a psychopath, Ted  Cruz took a page out of the GOP front-runner’s political playbook, and was unapologetic in his hardened rhetoric against undocumented immigrants. Cruz confirmed with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday …

Appearing Saturday on the “End Of Times” conservative radio program hosted by Ian Markell and Eric Barger, Michele Bachmann claimed that Islamic terrorists and Muslim Americans don’t need nuclear bombs to destroy Western Civilization because they have “rape culture.” Ignoring the fact that rape culture persists, well, everywhere in the …

According to a report from Buzzfeed News, a group of approximately 100 masked men physically attacked Swedish immigrants in a train station Friday night. Immediately before the attack, several subsets of the group were seen passing out anti-immigration and white nationalist fliers. Via Think Progress: Four suspects were arrested in …

Because of Germany’s historical involvement in genocide, hate speech in Germany has been considered a serious crime since WWII.  While the far-right has often clashed with law enforcement by speaking out against migrants, since the wave of violence in Cologne on New Years Eve where over 100 sexual assaults and robberies by …