Daily Archives: June 2, 2016

The Internet’s bigot crisis: There’s a new push to curtail online bigotry, but the toxic sludge of hate is too enormous to erase

Amanda Marcotte writes: For roughly the thousandth time, the masters of social media in Silicon Valley are promising to do something about online hate speech. Bloomberg reports that an impressive-sounding group of tech giants — Facebook, Twitter,Google and Microsoft — … Continue reading

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4chan Isn’t Sure Whether It’s Excited the Times Wrote Up Its Anti-Semitism

Jesse Singal writes: In an article that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times, Jonathan Weisman, deputy editor in the Times’ Washington bureau, explains what it’s like to be targeted by a swarm of (ostensibly) Trump-supporting anti-Semitic Twitter-goons: The anti-Semitic hate, … Continue reading

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Understanding the Alt-Right’s Jew Parentheses

Jesse Singal writes: Two defining characteristics of the alt-right, the loosely organized online coalition of meme-loving racists, are that its members like being weird online and aren’t particularly fond of Jews. Keep those two things in mind, and the following … Continue reading

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Two UCLA Female Profs Ordered Students To Ignore Lockdown And Take Exams

News: A professor at the University of California, Los Angeles asked her students to leave cover during a lockdown Wednesday and expose themselves to an active shooter situation in order to complete a final exam. “This is what I will … Continue reading

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Mainak Sarkar: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

Who allowed this killer into our country? From Heavy.com: The suspect in the shooting of a UCLA professor has been named as PhD candidate Mainak Sarkar. The victim was Professor William Klug. He was a teacher in Mechanical and Aerospace … Continue reading

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