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Twitch Joins Reddit in Cracking Down on Hate Speech, Forums Related to Trump
Social media companies have consistently been under fire over the past three years for allowing President Donald Trump and his supporters to use their platform to promote hate speech, even though hate speech supposedly violates their terms of service. Now, both Reddit and Twitch have begun to crack down on hateful content spread by the…
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The Phrase 'White Nationalist' Cut From Measure Designed to Screen for White Nationalists in the Military
A measure in the National Defense Authorization Act designed to allow for better screening of white nationalism in military enlistees has had the word ‘white nationalist’ removed. That, uh, makes sense, right? Huffington Post writes that after initially passing in the House, the language of the measure was altered to “extremist and gang-related activity,” after…
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Buckhead Bound: Trump and Pence Will Try to Kiss Up to Black Voters in Atlanta
Donald “I have a great relationship with the blacks” Trump will put that theory to the test this Friday when he heads down to downtown Atlanta to launch a new black voter initiative. That’s right, Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are headed to Buckhead. No, this apparently isn’t the premise for a white supremacist-endorsed…
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Rapper Who Went On Apology Tour After Idiotic, Ahistorical Slavery Comment Puts Foot in Mouth Once Again
There once was a man named “Old Kanye.” Actually, that tale is stale. Cut to today, and we have the current iteration of Kanye West, which is…something else, indeed. According to The Fader, between 7,000 and 10,000 people gathered at Gateway Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday for West’s infamous Sunday Service, which…
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Isaiah Washington Leaves the Democratic Party. No One Cares
Noted thespian, Obama critic and advocate for deregulating murder, Isaiah Washington sent progressive political supporters into a state of not-giving-a-fuck today when he told a Fox News wrestler that he was leaving the Democratic Party. On Wednesday’s episode of Nuff Said, which airs on Fox News’ online version of the ghetto, Fox Nation, the fourth most-famous…
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Nearly 1 in 3 Young Black People Say the Democratic Party Doesn’t Care About Them
Young black people are more likely than their peers to consider themselves Democrats—and “strong Democrats” at that—but nearly a third of them believe the Democratic Party doesn’t care about them, according to a recent poll. A new study from Gen Forward, a University of Chicago-based polling initiative, takes a deeper look at the political attitudes…
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#RepublicansSoWhite: Why Black Voters Don't Mess With the GOP
One of the favorite assertions of Candace Owens, Kanye West and black people who will happily let white people touch their hair, is that negroes have been bamboozled by the Democratic Party. They often ask why the Democratic Party tends to get the black vote by default. With a false sense of superiority bestowed upon…
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How the Republican Party Became The Party of Racism
Here’s a joke: What’s the difference between a Klan rally and a Republican Convention? Answer: The dress code. Here’s another one: How white is the Republican Party? According to Pew Research, 83 percent of the registered voters who identify as Republican are non-Hispanic whites. The Republican Party is whiter than Tilda Swinton riding a polar…
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Help Me Find the Lie: DNC Leader Keith Ellison Calls GOP ‘the Party of Racism’
In today’s water-is-wet news, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)—arguably one of the realest to ever do it—told guests gathered at Netroots Nation conference on Friday that the “Republican Party today is the party of racism” and former President Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t kick it with these racists. “You hear Republicans say, ‘We’re the party of Lincoln.’ He…