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Luis - worth noting, Berlusconi had the neo-fascists in his coalition. This makes sense re the parallel with Trump - whether he is actually fascist himself, he certainly seems comfortable courting and energizing a fascist politics.
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Fascism is impossible without a politics of ambiguity. And Trump is certainly a master of ambiguity. Stephen Colbert tried to expose this, by staging a debate between Trump and Trump, but I am pretty certainly it was preaching to the choir. Trump's fans might even see this as evidence of their idol's genius (which, in a certain distorted way, it indeed is).
Luís Henrique
The world is not as it is, but as it is constructed.
Falsely attributed to Lenin
Bragging about predatory behavior toward women?
Bragging about predatory behavior toward women?
Chris,
The Fraternal Order of Police, which represents more than 330,000 police officers across the country, has endorsed Donald Trump for president—but after the events of the past week, one thing is clear: Donald Trump has no interest in keeping women safe.
As women, we need to be able to trust the police officers in our community. They're a resource to turn to if we need to report sexual assault or domestic abuse, and they work to protect reproductive health care clinics from all-too-common anti-choice violence.
As many as 11 women have come forward accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault. Women need to trust the police to investigate sexual abuse cases—not to endorse a candidate accused of them.
Sign the petition to join NARAL and HuffPost in calling on the Fraternal Order of Police to rescind their endorsement of Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who brags about committing the heinous crime of sexual assault.
Many politicians have defended Donald Trump by dismissing his remarks as "just words." But many threats that begin as "just words" often escalate to do so much more harm: The domestic terrorist who killed three people and injured nine at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs last year used the same hateful rhetoric peddled by anti-choice politicians, and he acted on the dangerous suggestions by extremists that abortion opponents should target doctors and their families.
The police are sworn to serve and protect all people. Donald Trump has shown he is uninterested in protecting all people, and thousands of women have come forward in the last week with personal stories of sexual assault that parallel Trump's bragging. He's perpetuating a culture that stigmatizes the reporting of sexual assault and silences women who wish to come forward.
Add your name: The Fraternal Order of Police must rescind its endorsement of Donald Trump if it's truly committed to keeping all Americans safe.
No matter who commits it, sexual assault is a serious issue and a serious crime. If Donald Trump was truly "committed to law enforcement," he would understand why his remarks about forcibly groping and kissing women without their consent are so problematic.
But he does not. We deserve a president who shows women respect and who wants to do everything they can to help us and our families get ahead. That means keeping us safe from sexual assault and harassment.
I hope you'll join us, and I thank you for all you do for reproductive freedom.
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I think it's really hard to workout Trumps true agendas. Sucks that neither presidential candidate is at all trustworthy.
Has there ever been a serious candidate for POTUS who was?
I believe Trump genuinely cares about his country. He is far too wealthy and powerful to seek a Fascist position in the country, I think he is idealistic. Which is better than Clinton's version of pragmatism.
Of course you think that.
Trump himself may not be a fascist but some of his followers certainly are. Trump is very popular with the Alt-Right, which is the modern brand name for fascism. Since Trump has not held elected political office we cannot exactly say how he would govern but from what I can tell he would be pretty bad for working people.
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-the-anti-labor-day-candidate-running-against-fair-wages-worker-rights-and-unions/
I dont think trump is a fascist; at least not the way he pretends to be.
Trump is the only human being on this planet who could Get Clinton elected. She lost to Obama at the 08 primaries...
She literally had to rig the DNC this time just to beat sanders.
There was no way she could win unless the person she was facing was a Racist, Sexist, Fascist, Capitalist.
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"Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!" ~Charles Chaplin
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#RapeCulture is real. Trump and a key moment of national discussion
#RapeCulture is real. Trump and a key moment of national discussion
Commentary by Meredith Aby-Keirstead
Minneapolis, MN - Recently the Washington Post exposed Donald Trump’s conversation with Billy Bush where he bragged about sexually assaulting multiple women. Then Trump dismissed the discussion as “locker room talk” and in the presidential debate denied that he had ever sexually assaulted anyone. Every time I turn on the radio or open my computer I see or hear woman after woman accusing Trump of sexual assault. Since that time I have found myself experiencing moments of rage, depression and anxiety and have been shocked at the ways these events have rocked the U.S.
Many women, like myself, have experienced profound flashbacks to times when we were sexually assaulted. These flashbacks have been triggered by the comments of right wing commentators who call these charges “made up” and who call women who speak out “media whores”. But these instances of PTSD have also been triggered by those who denounce this national conversation as a “distraction.”
This is a key moment in the national discussion about gender relations and women’s oppression. When I was in college Anita Hill went on national television to accuse Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment and began a similar national conversation. Before 1991 many of us had no language for what we experienced and did not feel we had community support to challenge the sexual harassment we faced. When I was in college in the 1990s we were just starting to have a conversation about consent and date rape. But this conversation has deepened over the past 20 years and now we have created an understanding that yes means yes and about what is really needed for consent.
I have learned a lot from this generation of student activists about the importance of naming aspects of rape culture. I would have benefited from this analysis as a college student. When I was propositioned and touched by a man who was using his power over me I didn’t have words to describe what had happened to me but I was fortunate that when I did finally tell someone what happened she believed me and got me help so I could get out of that situation.
Through my discussions with women the past two weeks it is apparent that almost every woman I know has experienced some form of sexual harassment and assault. This makes sense when you consider that one in four women are raped in college and nine in ten of them knew their rapist. Such a prevalence of severe sexual assault requires an environment steeped in all levels of it.
As our awareness of the severity of the problem has grown, we are increasingly dismayed by the lack of progress in combatting it in the general population. Many of us have been shocked at the recent treatment of rapists by the American ‘judicial system’ and have wanted there to be a much larger understanding of the messages boys and girls receive that promote rape.
Now, while everyone in the U.S. is talking about Trump’s bragging that he sexually assaults women, is a critical moment. Women across the country are telling their stories about sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape - many for the first time - in order to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of rape culture. Men have the opportunity to denounce Trump and rape culture and to demand more respect for women. We must seize this chance to reshape our society’s cultural norms.
Some people have made a significant error. Those who view the national outrage around sexual assault “a distraction” during this presidential election are siding against women’s liberation. The issue of sexual assault is more important than who wins the presidential election. Whoever is elected, Clinton or Trump, will continue the war on terror and provide significant barriers to the people’s movements for social justice. For the most part the ruling class, even before these debates, had lined up for Clinton and the election results have been decided. However, the national discussion around rape culture has the potential to transform women’s lives and to bring a real awareness to the struggle for women’s liberation in a way I have rarely seen.
I urge everyone to struggle for women’s liberation in the activism they do - whether that’s in the anti-war movement, student organizing, immigrant rights, the Black lives matter movement, the labor movement, the environmental movement, etc. One way that we can do this is by denouncing Trump’s attempt to normalize sexual assault and to make it a priority to support the women we organize with. Sexual assault is not just a women’s issue, but a societal one. At this important juncture, when women speak out about their experiences, we need to listen to them, believe them, support them and recognize the importance of the discussion.
Meredith Aby-Keirstead is a frequent contributor to Fight Back News and a leader in the anti-war movement in Minneapolis, MN.
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In an even more ominous note, a black church in Mississippi was burned and partially destroyed Tuesday night and defaced with pro-Trump graffiti. The fire destroyed much of the main sanctuary at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi. It came as a newspaper associated with the Ku Klux Klan, the Crusader, published an endorsement of Trump under the headline, “Make America Great Again.”
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016.../elec-n03.html
In fact, there is nothing surprising in the appearance and in therapid rise of Trump. Trump is an American ISIS. Trump and ISIS, as well as rising right-populist fascist parties in Europe ,have the same nature and cause. Trump is a reactionary, dark, mixed up in ignorance responce to the impossibility of further development of mankind on a capitalist basis. In the modern world really all from top to bottom is false.Freedom, democracy, human rights are fake,environmental control is a profanation,antipoverty programs are a hypocrisy,civil society is a set of organizations created and funded by the government,etc. Now when capitalism does not work any more, the old ideological superstructure can not exist any more.And here comes the time of Trump,ISIS,etc.Justly unmasking rottenness, lies and hypocrisy of the existing order, they called peoples back.They inflame the darkest instincts of people. From the fact that freedom, democracy and human rights in the modern world are fake, the crowds led by Trump come to the idea that a person should not have rights, freedom and democracy.And just those who need freedom, democracy and human rights most of all are ahead of this madness.
Why then the establishment is so afraid of Trump? Those who are in power are afraid of any uncontrolled activity from below - hell knows what would want then that yokels who follow now Trump?
Here is an interesting Lenin;s remark:
"There is in our Black-Hundred movement one exceedingly original and exceedingly important feature that has not been the subject of sufficient attention. That feature is ignorant peasant democracy, democracy of the crudest type but also extremely deep-seated. No matter how much the commanding classes try to fence our political parties off from the people both by means of the June Third election law and by thousands of “peculiar features” of our political system, reality has its way. Every political party, even of the extreme Right, has to seek some sort of link with the people.
The extreme Rights constitute the party of the landowners. They cannot, however, confine themselves to links with the landowners alone. They have to conceal those links and pretend that they are defending the interests of the entire people, that they stand for the “good old”, “stable” way of rural life. They have to appeal to the most deep-rooted prejudices of the most backward peasant, they have to play on his ignorance.
Such a game cannot be played without risk. Now and again the voice of the real peasant life, peasant democracy, breaks through all the Black-Hundred mustiness and cliché. Then the Rights are compelled to get rid of the “inconvenient” peasant democrat." https://www.marxists.org/archive/len...913/sep/26.htm
Any anti-communist is a dog. - Jean-Paul Sartre.
This doesn't end Tuesday
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Chris,
Our steering committee met this weekend and discussed what's on everyone's mind: this election.
Here are some of our thoughts.
This campaign has featured the most vicious open in-fighting in the last 100 years of U.S. history
Trump has repeatedly called for locking up his opponent, Hillary Clinton, and has implied twice that she should be assassinated.
He has said that he won't accept the results of the elections if he doesn't win. He refuses to back down and this has caused more than a few of his followers to speculate on civil war if he loses. This is a very dangerous situation.
There are deep divisions between those at the top of the ruling class about the best way to run their empire. These are sure to sharpen in coming days, even after the elections. Whatever happens on Tuesday, we don't expect a respite from the animus that has polarized the country on a terrible basis.
Is there potential for a deeper legitimacy crisis? Could those who run the system decide to make a leap towards fascism, and what would that mean? What is required of us now?
To get into some of the answers to these questions, we encourage our readers to dig deeply into these articles from revcom.us.
The Democrats Have Already Said They Will Accept A Trump Election As Legitimate. What Does This Mean? And What Must We Do?
Why I am Not Voting in This Election, Why You Shouldn't Either...But Why I Will Defend the Right of Black and Other Oppressed People to Vote! by Carl Dix.
At this point, anything can happen — but the following we know:
There is a fascist wing of the Republican Party that has been working over a period of decades to consolidate power. Through Donald Trump they could succeed in winning the presidency.
We are told that to stop Donald Trump, we must vote for Hillary Clinton. But this is not a solution that will bring justice, or peace.
1. The Democrats have pledged to respect the results of the election if Trump wins. Clinton has never attacked Trump's essential legitimacy, even while he has continued to attack her. She touts her qualifications to be commander in chief, as someone who is able to seek common ground and work with the neo-cons. Joe Biden himself said on CNN about Trump, "If he wins, I'll extend a hand. He would be the president of the United States. Period."
2. Clinton has decades of experience as a tool for the interests of this empire that is killing the planet and its people. She is a proven war criminal who played a key role in her husband's administration, which imposed sanctions on Iraq that caused the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children. She runs on her competence to lead a "super-predator" military that is currently waging unjust war on seven countries. She authorized drone strikes as Secretary of State that have killed civilian populations, and she pledges more support for these types of killings. Clinton threatens a "no fly" zone over Syria; similar actions led to the deaths of thousands in Kosovo and Libya.
Clinton's promise to extend the legacy of Obama should be taken as a guarantee of expanding the endless war on the world. No less than the former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzei (previously a cheerleader for the U.S. occupation) said in the Washington Post this week:
"Just show me one example of a bombing that has taken Afghanistan one step closer to peace. Fifteen years on, do we have more Taliban or less, more terror or less? Is this really a war against terror, or is it something else in which the lives of Afghans don't matter?"
Clinton and Trump are criminal choices, and we need to reject them both.
These lines from our Call to Drive Out The Bush Regime still ring true:
"There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into 'leaders' who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people."
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We don't have the luxury to believe Trump may not be a fascist given that he's done everything in his power to make that impression.
Choosing the lesser evil isn't about accepting the lesser evil as an ultimate solution. It's about not allowing oneself to be annihilated by the greater evil. Why would you let a mad man get in power. It says here that he's a fascist. & what American leader isn't a war criminal?
But these people have been around for 40 years with their above it all line & failed to create a mass movement.
We need to correct *that* error.
If you notice, that's what the entire article is about. (Also those aren't *my* words, as you erroneously indicate.)
Well, it's an uphill battle -- you're making it sound like the WCW / RCP is at fault for there being a lack of generalized revolution.
Yup.
PCJF in Court Monday Morning Battling for Right to Protest at Trump Inauguration
Urgent Alert: PCJF in Court Monday Morning Battling for Right to Protest at Trump Inauguration
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Urgent Alert: PCJF in Court Monday Morning Battling for Right to Protest at Trump Inauguration
Government Asserts Free Speech Exclusion Zones are Outside the First Amendment’s Protections
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Trump is elected and Free Speech rights are already at stake starting Day 1 – Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017.
Monday, November 14 — Join the PCJF in Court in Washington, D.C.
A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition v. W Ralph Basham, et al. (Case No. 16-5047)
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We are going to court on Monday. We know that you share our sense of urgency and we are counting on you and others to support this fight.
The government has announced that on Inauguration Day space alongside the Pennsylvania Avenue inaugural parade route including Freedom Plaza and the area in front of the Trump Hotel will be free speech exclusion zones reserved for Trump supporters and funders.
On Monday morning, November 14th, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the PCJF will defend the First Amendment rights of the people.
In an unprecedented court filing, the U.S. Government and its Justice Department argue that the government may take the public parklands, sidewalks and streets of America at the central moment of their use by the people for assembly, speech and debate, and petitioning of the government and redesignate our public spaces into exclusive “government speech” or No Free Speech Zones. There is no limitation to the scope of these zones.
The government has argued in its brief to the Court that with respect to these exclusion zones “the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment is not implicated” – that Free Speech rights under the First Amendment do not apply to demonstrations on public space if the government chooses to support a pro-government or favored viewpoint instead.
This is a new constitutional doctrine — carving a massive hole into the First Amendment — that the Justice Department is for the very first time in history arguing exists.
You can imagine what this means for democracy in America.
If the government wins court approval of this radical evisceration of First Amendment rights, you can expect that President Trump (or any mayor or governor) will be able to prevent or displace protest on public space at will simply by declaring that public forums like our sidewalks and parks are reserved for private organizations espousing a pro-government viewpoint. If they can do it on Pennsylvania Avenue, “America’s Main Street,” on Inauguration Day, they will do it everywhere they wish.
At Monday’s hearing, the PCJF will demand that Freedom Plaza — so named in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s leadership of a civil rights movement that spoke truth to power and which so profoundly benefited our society — be made available to dissent, and that the buffer zone around Trump Hotel reserved for Trump supporters be disallowed.
The extreme danger posed to the Bill of Rights and the right to protest by the actions of the government cannot be overstated.
The PCJF has fought for the right to protest along the Inaugural route for 16 years regardless of administration. This case alone has been litigated since 2005.
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We REFUSE to Accept a Fascist America
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As we said Monday, this is so not over. Like many of you, we've been out on the streets starting Wednesday protesting with outraged people. See some photos from those protests in the sidebar.
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In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America
Rise Up... Get Into The Streets... Unite with People Everywhere
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Don’t Stop: Don’t Conciliate... Don’t Accommodate... Don’t Collaborate
Donald Trump has now won the presidency. Under the slogan “Make America Great Again,” he has viciously attacked Mexicans and Muslims, threatened to deport millions and boasted that he will build walls and close borders. He incites people to fear and hate those who are “different,” or who come from other countries or nationalities, or practice different religions. He crudely demeans and degrades women, and openly boasts about molesting them. He’s a champion of white supremacy who has insulted and threatened Black people, and whipped up a racist lynch-mob mentality. Trump has mocked the disabled. He is an aggressive and unapologetic militarist, who threatens to use nuclear weapons and will have his fingers on the nuclear codes.
He openly advocates war crimes and crimes against humanity—including torture and killing the families of people accused of terrorism. He plans to pack the Supreme Court with justices who will gut and reverse the right to abortion, gay rights, and other important legal rights. He calls climate change a hoax and his policies will wreak further devastation on the environment. He has attacked and threatened the press and stirred up his supporters to do the same. Trump has utter contempt for facts and the truth, and consistently lies to advance his agenda. As for the rule of law, Trump went so far as to openly threaten his opponent, Hillary Clinton, not only with jail, but even assassination. Donald Trump is an outright fascist. And he is now the president-elect.
Fascism is a very serious thing. Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, and the aggressive reinstitution of oppressive “traditional values.” Fascism feeds on and encourages the threat and use of violence to build a movement and come to power. Fascism, once in power, essentially eliminates traditional democratic rights. Fascism attacks, jails, and executes its opponents, and launches violent mob attacks on “minorities.” In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and ’40s, under Hitler, fascism did all these things. They imprisoned millions in concentration camps and exterminated millions of Jews, Roma people (Gypsies), and other “undesirables.” And Hitler did almost all of this through the established institutions and the “rule of law.” This is where this goes. And yes, Hitler himself could “talk graciously” when he felt it would serve his interests and lull his opponents.
Trump did not even win the popular vote, (even though he did win the “electoral college” which decides elections in the U.S.). Hitler himself came to power through democratic procedures, including through the process of elections. Should people have accepted Hitler?! Unfortunately, they did, at a horrific cost to humanity. Today, with nuclear weapons, that cost could be far higher.
In the name of humanity, we must refuse to accept a fascist America!
The fact that Trump won as many votes as he did must be understood. The fact that he got more than even 10 percent of the vote is disgraceful and reveals some very ugly things about America. So why did this happen? The world today is turbulent, full of changes. Those who supported Trump’s fascist program were overwhelmingly sections of white people, especially but not only white men, who yearn for the days of open white supremacy and American global domination, and the blatant subjugation of women. A significant minority of white people did oppose him, but we have to confront how deep the racism, the national chauvinism, and the hatred of women is woven into this society... and not give in to this, but vigorously challenge and fiercely oppose it.
But even more than this, Trump was backed by powerful forces in this society. Beyond those who directly supported him, the media, the Democratic Party, and others treated him as a legitimate candidate, refused to call him out as the fascist he is, and now call on everyone to accept his ascension to power. All the major powerful forces in this society bear the responsibility—it is they who have, over decades, either built up this fascist force or have “enabled” it.
You cannot try to “wait things out” with fascists. Those who lived through Hitler’s Germany and sat on the sidelines, looking on as Hitler rounded up one group after another, became shameful collaborators with monstrous crimes against humanity. Trump and his regime must be resisted and defied, beginning now, in many different ways and in every corner of society.
Reconciliation and collaboration would be nothing less than criminal and deadly. Literally. Come together... resist... and let the whole world know that we will not allow this to stand!
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Thousands march to reject Trump in Minneapolis, block Interstate 94
Thousands march to reject Trump in Minneapolis, block Interstate 94
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Minneapolis, MN - Two days after Donald Trump was declared the winner in the presidential election, several thousand people poured into the streets of Minneapolis, Nov. 10, to express their outrage and pledging to resist Trump’s entire reactionary agenda. Chants ranged from “We reject the president elect!” and “Not our president!” to chants supporting particular struggles and movements like immigrant rights, Black Lives Matter, Native struggles, environmental struggles, LGBTQ and women's liberation, and more.
The marchers were overwhelmingly young. Bystanders and passing cars responded enthusiastically, with many chanting along with the marchers and some joining and swelling the size of the march. All the speakers at the march emphasized the need to resist Trump’s agenda immediately.
The march first passed through the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, home to a large Somali and East African community. In the last week of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump spoke in Minneapolis and lashed out with threats against the Somali community. The march then went down Franklin Avenue, passing by the Republican Party headquarters at 22nd and Franklin Avenue. Heading back toward Riverside Avenue, marchers suddenly sprinted toward the Highway 94 entrance, flooding past police cars trying to block the entrance. Thousands of people surged onto the highway, shutting down the main artery through the Twin Cities for over an hour, symbolizing that there will not be business as usual for Donald Trump. Marchers held the highway until 9:00 p.m., then decided to leave the highway on the Cedar Avenue exit, returning to the march starting point. Nobody was arrested.
The march’s starting and ending point was outside the University of Minnesota Humphrey School building. It started there in solidarity with an immigrant rights protest that had been previously planned there the same evening by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC), to protest a speech by Senator Amy Klobuchar due to her inaction on stopping the jailing of immigrant children who cross the border into for-profit ‘family detention centers’. 40 legislators have signed on to a letter asking President Obama to shut down these detention centers, but Klobuchar so far has not. Facing the prospect of a very large protest, at the last minute Klobuchar’s event was moved to McNamara Alumni Center on the other side of the university campus. MIRAC protested outside her speech at McNamara, then also participated as a contingent in the anti-Trump protest.
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Don't do PR for racists
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Chris,
“Alt-right” is a term white nationalists and white supremacists use to obscure their overtly racist, anti-Semitic, xenophobic and misogynist agenda.
Too many media outlets are using the term without definition or context — and these omissions help normalize extremist groups and create an environment where increased levels of dehumanization, harassment and violence against Muslims, immigrants, people of color, women and LGBTQI folks become daily occurrences.
Tell the media: Stop doing PR for racists.
The Associated Press just released standards for reporting on the “alt-right” — urging the media to stop using the term without context.1 All news outlets should follow the AP's recommendation to “avoid using the term generically and without definition ... because it is not well known and ... may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience.”
Urge the media to stop using the term “alt-right” without context. News outlets need to call out racism, white nationalism, neo-Nazism, white supremacy and misogyny for what they are.
People’s lives are at risk as members of the incoming Trump administration call for mass deportation of undocumented people, a ban on Muslims entering the country,2 and suppression of the Black vote.3 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 701 reported incidents of hateful harassment in the 10 days following the election.4 These incidents can't be separated from Trump's hateful platform or the agenda of the so-called “alt-right.”5
The media must hold the administration and white supremacist groups accountable for their actions and stop doing PR for racists.
Thanks for all that you do—
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P.S. Urge the media to stop using the term “alt-right” without context. News outlets should call out racism, white nationalism, neo-Nazism, white supremacy and misogyny for what they are.
1. “Writing About the ‘Alt-Right,’” Associated Press, Nov. 28, 2016: https://act.freepress.net/go/16583?t...9036884.JoUDCj
2. "What the Alt-Right Actually Wants from President Trump," Vox, Nov. 28, 2016: http://act.freepress.net/go/16584?t=...9036884.JoUDCj
3. "Trump’s Chief Adviser Reportedly Made These Incredibly Racist Comments About Voting," Fusion, Nov. 28, 2016: http://act.freepress.net/go/16585?t=...9036884.JoUDCj
4. "Update: Incidents of Hateful Harassment Since Election Day Now Number 701,” Southern Poverty Law Center, Nov. 18, 2016: https://act.freepress.net/go/16586?t...9036884.JoUDCj
5. "Hitler Salutes and White Supremacism: A Weekend with the ‘Alt-Right,’" The Guardian, Nov. 21, 2016: https://act.freepress.net/go/16587?t...9036884.JoUDCj
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