Last night, while everybody was already mad at Twitter over the mass-rollout of the new 280-character limit, the social media service evidently decided to steer into the spin by granting a coveted verification checkmark to Jason Kessler, the asshole who masterminded the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville…
Most of the recent time we’ve spent pondering the dregs of humanity has centered on sexual predators, but a new report from BuzzFeed has reminded us of another onerous group—namely, white supremacists (you’ll note there is some overlap between the two). Back on August 12, a bunch of white supremacists and neo-Nazis,…
Although Trump’s certainly earned the moniker President Toddler, what with his still developing motor skills and vocabulary, lately he behaves more like a sulky preteen. Look at the way he handled Charlottesville—the president waited two days before commenting on the white supremacist rally that left one activist dead…
The entire marketing campaign for South Park’s 21st season has centered around a back-to-basics promise. According to promos and interviews with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it will be a season without serialization; a season with more silliness and less politics; a season without Donald Trump.
A few weeks ago, when a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted in violence, the internet was flooded with photos, videos, and anecdotes from protestors down on the front lines. Suddenly, the hate that long burbled beneath the surface in America was laid bare for all to see. With the country…
It’s been a deservedly cruel summer for Christopher Cantwell, the neo-Nazi who chanted such charming slogans as “Jews will not replace us”—on camera, mind you—while marching in the “alt-right” / Klan crossover event known as the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville. Despite puffing his chest while around his…
On Monday, the Charlottesville City Council voted to cover the city’s monuments to Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson with black fabric. It’s a symbolic gesture to indicate the citywide mourning of Heather Heyer, the activist who was killed at the Unite The Right rally led by neo-Nazis earlier…
We can now add “disgraced YouTube stars” to the list of people more willing to distance themselves from white supremacy than the currently sitting American president, with massively successful Let’s Play-er Felix Kjellberg—a.k.a. PewDiePie—announcing that he’s giving up his beloved Nazi jokes in the wake of the events…
White supremacists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis (the AP is very clear on them not being the same thing, though we’re still trying to figure out when each is appropriate) got a shot in the Hitler-saluting arm when the president of the United States referred to (some of) them as “very fine people.” To add to this…
Given what happened in Charlottesville last weekend and the president’s latest not-so-tacit endorsement of white supremacists—in which he also expressed more concern about preserving monuments commemorating slave owners than the attacks on counter protesters by otherwise “fine people”—you might think that plans to…
This past weekend, a group of “slack-jawed, potato-faced” neo-nazis marched through the University Of Virginia with tiki torches. They were ostensibly there to protest Charlottesville’s plan to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee, but as this new documentary from Vice shows, it was more of a means to prove that the…
Yesterday, Donald Trump gave a big shoutout to all of his Nazi supporters by refusing to blame white nationalist ideologies for the murder of Heather Heyer during the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, with Trump choosing to say there was violence “on many sides” instead. It was arguably the most disgusting and…
President Donald Trump showed a rare burst of philosophical equanimity today, inviting Americans everywhere to consider both sides of the problems currently plaguing our country. Liberals and conservatives. Racists and non-racists. People standing in the street, and those who choose to accelerate into them in their…
Things got scary in the small college town of Charlottesville, Virginia, last night, when hundreds of torch-bearing white supremacists began marching through the city and onto the campus of the University of Virginia. The fact that the assembled group was carrying tiki torches, and not flaming crosses, made the whole…