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 …
Read More »Big Day In NY Politics: Dems Square Off In Brooklyn And Thousands Prepare To Shut Down Donald Trump In Midtown
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 …
Read More »Trump’s America: New Survey Finds The Presidential Campaign Has Profoundly Negative Impact On Schoolchildren Nationwide
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 – …
Read More »Trump Releases Plan To Build Wall On Southern Border, Promises To Open Up The Patriot Act
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 …
Read More »Trump Says Muslims Aren’t Helping Fight Terrorism, Ignores The Reality That Muslim Americans Repeatedly Cooperate With Authorities
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 …
Read More »Ted Clears This Up Once And For All: He Will Happily Deport Innocent Children If They Are Here Illegally
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 …
Read More »Michele Bachmann Claims That Muslims Are ‘Nuking Western Civilization With Rape’
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 …
Read More »Up To 100 Masked Men Attack Refugees In Sweden
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 …
Read More »Germany cracks down on anti-migrant hate speech
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 …
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