As the campaign heats up in the final weeks before November’s U.S. midterms elections, so have overt appeals to racial animus and resentment, reported The Washington Post (WP) last week.
“The toxic remarks appear to be receiving less pushback from Republicans than in past years, suggesting that some candidates in the first post-Trump election cycle have been influenced by the ex-president’s norm-breaking example,” said the report.
The racial invective has come at a time when Democrats are dealing with their own scandal in Los Angeles, where Democratic city council members and a labor leader were recorded making racist statements, according to the report.
Civil rights leaders say they are holding out hope that the environment will improve after the U.S. midterms but worry that each new attack further erodes the standards for how people in public life talk about race and religion.
“I don’t know if it’ll be very easy to put the genie back in the bottle,” Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, was quoted as saying.
The racist messages from prominent Republicans came in rapid succession. It was on Friday, Sept. 30, when Donald Trump used racist language toward Elaine Chao, who served as his transportation secretary for four years. A week later, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama used racist rhetoric about Black people, crime and reparations.
The next day, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia re-emphasized her support for the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory. All the while, Black candidates for the U.S. Senate were confronting attack ads emphasizing race in unsubtle ways. Yesterday, for good measure, Trump thought it’d be a good idea to dabble in antisemitism — again.
To be sure, the push isn’t especially surprising. It’s also an offensive with ample precedent in the American tradition. What’s more, it’s very likely to have the intended effect: The right would steer clear of such ugly tactics if conservatives were convinced they wouldn’t work.
But The Washington Post had a good report over the weekend noting the difference between this year’s offensive messaging and what voters have seen in recent years.
Viktor Orban, the racist Hungarian PM who is increasingly isolated in the European Union over his “racist” anti-immigration policies, dismantling of rule of law safeguards, and opposition to further Russian sanctions, is likely to receive a very warm welcome when he takes the stage at a right-wing annual conservative conference in the US.
Ahead of his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, on Thursday, Orban met with former US President Donald Trump, describing him as “our important ally”.
Trump, who is believed to be gearing up for a second run for the Oval Office, said he and the racist Hungarian PM “discussed many interesting topics — few people know as much about what is going on today.”
For Orban, the visit to the US comes after sparking outrage in Europe over comments he delivered during his annual address at the Tusvanyos Summer University in Romania on 30 July.
Orban had praised what he called the “unmixed Hungarian race” and denounced countries where European and non-European people intermingle as “no longer nations”.
The racist Hungarian PM defended his stance again last Thursday during a visit to Austria, arguing that “I can sometimes express myself in a way that can be misunderstood” and that his comments were not about racism but about “cultural differences” and preserving the Hungarian culture “as it is now”.
Leaders of the political groups in the European parliaments nonetheless branded his comments as “openly racist” in a joint statement issued on Saturday.
The EU triggered the Article 7 procedure — the so-called nuclear option– against Hungary in September 2018 but leaders in the Council have not yet voted to determine whether there is “a clear risk of a serious breach” of the EU’s common values, which could see Hungary stripped of its voting right.
Orban’s mounting opposition to sanctions against Russia has also resulted in a cooling of relations with traditional EU allies Poland and Czechia.
The mayor of London has said that Donald Trump’s term as US president led to a significant rise in racist abuse directed at him.
While on a five-day trade mission to the US, London mayor Sadiq Khan told San Francisco’s Stanford University “during those four years he was president, that led to me having police protection and a lot of racial abuse”.
He added the temporary and permanent banning of the US ex-President Donald Trump from Twitter led to a substantial drop in such racist abuse.
The mayor of London says he has received at least 233,000 “explicitly racist or racialized social media messages” since being elected mayor of London in 2016.
Sadiq Khan partly blamed a 1,892% rise in racist abuse on Donald Trump’s election as US president.
A feud started in 2017 when Mr. Trump criticized the mayor over his response to the London Bridge terror attacks.
“He’s not my biggest fan,” Sadiq Khan told the audience in Silicon Valley.
The mayor of London was elected mayor of London in May 2016, six months before US President Donald Trump won the White House.
The ex-US president first criticized Mr. Khan, who was the first Muslim to be elected as the mayor of a major Western city, for his response to the London Bridge terror attacks in 2017.
During his 2019 visit to the UK, the former US president later called the London leader a “stone-cold loser” who had failed to manage crime rates in the capital.
It comes as Elon Musk, the richest man in the world declared he would reverse Donald Trump’s “foolish” ban from the platform as part of the plans to make permanent account suspensions a “rare thing” and support more free speech.
This has prompted a warning that hundreds of profiles belonging to the “very worst” trolls previously banned from the site could return.
Target is being accused of racism after one of its stores put the darker shades of makeup in a security box, while the lighter shades were left unprotected.
Eli Levi, 21, from New York City, was shopping in the popular department store chain when he noticed that darker shades of makeup and tones of the Versed Luminizing Glow Drops were being kept inside a sealed plastic bin to prevent stealing, while the lighter ones sat on the shelf with no protection.
He took a video of it and uploaded it to TikTok, slamming the store and calling it ‘racism at its finest.’
The video quickly went viral, gaining more than 500,000 views in a matter of days, and it left many people on the internet outraged.
‘Target, please explain to me why the lighter shades are perfectly out while the darker shades are packaged and security sealed, ‘ he said in the clip.
‘That is racism at its finest in the beauty section at Target.’
The product comes in two different shades: sheer golden (which is the one that sat freely on the shelf) and sheer bronzed (which is the one that was locked up), and the latter is a visibly darker shade.
However, on its website, the brand insists that the glow drops are actually designed for all skin tones.
‘Choose between Sheer Bronzed and Sheer Golden (or don’t – both shades work well on almost all skin tones and can be mixed together),’ the brand’s description of the products read.
Many people were horrified with Target’s actions and took to the comment section to share their dismay, tagging the company and asking for a response.
‘@Target do better,’ wrote one disgruntled TikToker.
‘Yup, they’ve been getting away with this for years. #Shopsmall,’ added another.
The conflict raging in Ukraine between Russian and Ukrainian Slavs, the latter with the support of a tribal coalition of nations across sub-Scandinavian Europe, has exposed much more than the fragility of peace on the disease-ravaged subcontinent.
It has also revealed a mean streak of racist exceptionalism with which many Europeans, and people of European heritage, tend to regard themselves.
It has been impossible to miss the shock among Caucasian journalists covering the war, sparked by Russia’s invasion under the pretext of supporting ethnic allies in the eastern tribal enclaves of Donetsk and Luhansk, which it has recognised as independent states, at the idea that this could happen in Europe.
“They seem so like us. That is what makes it so shocking … War is no longer something visited upon impoverished and remote populations. It can happen to anyone,” wrote Daniel Hannan in the UK’s The Telegraph.
“We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city, and we have cruise missile fired as if we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine,” a commentator wailed on French TV.
Reporting from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Charlie D’Agata, a correspondent with CBS News in the US, declared Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades.
This is a relatively civilised, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, where you wouldn’t expect that or hope that it’s going to happen.” He later apologised.
The pearl-clutching is of course nothing new. When covering events in the US during the Donald Trump administration, especially the 2020 elections, reporters would regularly exclaim that such chaos was expected of the “Third World”, not the US.
“America is a Third World country now” was a headline of Fortune magazine following the unhinged first presidential debate between Trump and his eventual successor, Joe Biden.
A Confederate flag parading through the Capitol is just one of the many disturbing images the country confronted on January 6. Some photos and videos were more painful than others for some Americans.
A number of pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol wore clothing with anti-Semitic messages—the latest sign of a growing problem in America.
From 2015 to 2019, anti-Semitic incidents jumped to nearly a record high, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Some Jewish leaders said the growth of crimes against Jews intensified under former President Trump.
During the Capitol riots, Audrey Glickman, a Jewish woman from Pittsburgh, had to look at rioters wearing “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirts. She said those images hit her viscerally.
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A Confederate flag parading through the Capitol is just one of the many disturbing images the country confronted on January 6. Some photos and videos were more painful than others for some Americans. A number of pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol wore clothing with anti-Semitic messages—the latest sign of a growing problem in America. From 2015 to 2019, anti-Semitic incidents jumped to nearly a record high, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Some Jewish leaders said the growth of crimes against Jews intensified under former President Trump. During the Capitol riots, Audrey Glickman, a Jewish woman from Pittsburgh, had to look at rioters wearing “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirts. She said those images hit her viscerally. A Confederate flag parading through the Capitol is just one of the many disturbing images the country confronted on January 6. Some photos and videos were more painful than others for some Americans. A number of pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol wore clothing with anti-Semitic messages—the latest sign of a growing problem in America. From 2015 to 2019, anti-Semitic incidents jumped to nearly a record high, according to the Anti-Defamation League. Some Jewish leaders said the growth of crimes against Jews intensified under former President Trump. dangerous phase dangerous phase dangerous phase
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against President Trump moves forward
E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against President Trump moves forward
A federal judge in New York has scheduled a telephone conference in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump, a signal the case is moving forward despite attempts by the Justice Department to intervene.
The initial conference was scheduled for Dec.11 at 9:30 a.m. before Judge Lewis Kaplan.
“We look forward to finally moving ahead with discovery in the case, which has been on hold since Trump filed his motion for a stay last February, and look forward to the initial conference in E Jean Carroll’s case on Dec. 11, if the parties cannot agree on a schedule,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement provided to ABC News.
Judge Kaplan, who is of no relation to the plaintiff’s attorney, last month rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to substitute for President Trump as the defendant in a suit that claimed he defamed Carroll when he accused her of lying about an alleged rape in a department store dressing room.
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A federal judge in New York has scheduled a telephone conference in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump, a signal the case is moving forward despite attempts by the Justice Department to intervene. The initial conference was scheduled for Dec.11 at 9:30 a.m. before Judge Lewis Kaplan. “We look forward to finally moving ahead with discovery in the case, which has been on hold since Trump filed his motion for a stay last February, and look forward to the initial conference in E Jean Carroll’s case on Dec. 11, if the parties cannot agree on a schedule,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement provided to ABC News. Judge Kaplan, who is of no relation to the plaintiff’s attorney, last month rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to substitute for President Trump as the defendant in a suit that claimed he defamed Carroll when he accused her of lying about an alleged rape in a department store dressing room.
The Stench of Trump’s Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever
The Stench of Trump’s Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever
A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government. “She’s telling us how to run our country,” he sneered. “How did you do where you came from? How’s your country doing? She’s going to tell us — she’s telling us how to run our country.”
Omar is an American citizen who immigrated to the United States legally as a child. Trump’s claim that she has no right to participate in American politics because she is an immigrant from Africa — and that she is permanently defined by her country of origin — is not only flagrantly racist but would have been seen as bigoted a hundred years ago. And yet he has continued to repeat this grotesque racist attack on her at rally after rally before braying crowds.
A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government. “She’s telling us how to run our country,” he sneered. “How did you do where you came from? How’s your country doing? She’s going to tell us — she’s telling us how to run our country.”Omar is an American citizen who immigrated to the United States legally as a child. Trump’s claim that she has no right to participate in American politics because she is an immigrant from Africa — and that she is permanently defined by her country of origin — is not only flagrantly racist but would have been seen as bigoted a hundred years ago. And yet he has continued to repeat this grotesque racist attack on her at rally after rally before braying crowds.
Biden calls Trump ‘one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history.’
Biden calls Trump ‘one of the most racist presidents we’ve had in modern history.’
President Trump came to the debate ready with his regular wrap on race when asked to explain his description of “Black Lives Matter” as a symbol of hate: He claimed he had done more than any president since Abraham Lincoln for African-Americans, and he called himself the “least racist person in this room.” (Never mind that the moderator of the debate, Kristen Welker, is a Black woman.)
But he has limited achievements to back up the ludicrous claims he regularly makes as part of his stump speech. He typically points to criminal justice reform and his support for historically Black colleges and universities as the twin backbones of his support for Black Americans. On Thursday night, he also talked about creating opportunity zones.
It’s all been part of an effort to shave off a few points of Mr. Biden’s support among Black voters. Mr. Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters in 2016 and his campaign wants to increase his margin by a few points.
But he has limited achievements to back up the ludicrous claims he regularly makes as part of his stump speech. He typically points to criminal justice reform and his support for historically Black colleges and universities as the twin backbones of his support for Black Americans. On Thursday night, he also talked about creating opportunity zones. It’s all been part of an effort to shave off a few points of Mr. Biden’s support among Black voters. Mr. Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters in 2016 and his campaign wants to increase his margin by a few points. a few points
Trump’s Impact on Immigration – Anti-Muslim Stats
Trump’s Impact on Immigration – Anti-Muslim Stats
Mr Trump’s hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known – he once pledged to enact a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges.
As a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office.
Mr Trump’s hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known – he once pledged to enact a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges. As a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office. Mr Trump’s hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known – he once pledged to enact a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges. As a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office. Mr Trump’s hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known – he once pledged to enact a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges. As a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office. Mr Trump’s hostility to any immigration from Muslim-majority countries is well known – he once pledged to enact a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” – and a reduction in refugee quotas proved easier to implement than an outright ban, which became mired in legal challenges. As a result, the number of refugees admitted from a number of majority-Muslim countries, including Iraq, Somalia, Iran and Syria, fell almost to zero soon after he took office.