Morning Briefing: Incels, White Supremacists, and Anti-LGBTIQ Far Right Extremist Violence
Morning Briefing: Incels, White Supremacists, and Anti-LGBTIQ Far Right Extremist Violence
Incel charged with hate crimes for pepper-spraying women in California, White supremacists charged with hate crime for burning cross in Mississippi, and Price Center vandalized in Florida.
Morning Briefing: The Pride Community Center in Gainesville, Florida was vandalized “with the culprit leaving behind a hateful message,” and LGBTIQ advocates believe the newly-passed anti-LGBTIQ policies in Florida “continue to have a negative effect on the students of the state.”
Johnny Deven Young was “arrested on hate crime charges, after a series of attacks in which he allegedly tear-gassed women while making derogatory comments.” Young is a self-described “incel” was arrested after “allegedly posting a video of himself sexually harassing and pepper-spraying women in Costa Mesa.”
Axel Cox is “facing federal hate crime charges for burning a cross in his front yard in Gulfport, Mississippi, allegedly to intimidate a Black family.” Cox allegedly “used threatening and racially derogatory remarks toward his Black neighbors,” according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Mississippi.
Spotify, the online music streaming service, “was found to be hosting—and in some cases actively playlisting—an array of white supremacist music,” according to a report published by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
In 2021, a majority of Americans believed that “Jews in America faced a lot of discrimination,” according to polling data from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), and this marks a “substantial increase from December 2013, when only 32% of Americans thought that Jews faced a lot of discrimination.”
Pennsylvania State Sen. Doug Mastriano, the far right Republican nominee for governor, said during a 2019 radio interview “that women should be charged with murder if they violated his proposed abortion ban.”
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Melissa Gira Grant writes that “each week brings some new twist to the horror. But the totality of the threats can be lost amid each individual news story about a conservative flak latching onto the smear ‘groomer,’ or a children’s hospital receiving bomb threats, or a library being evacuated, or a far-right group gearing up to attack a Pride celebration. Each story gets brief attention, then fades into the background as the next threat emerges. The connections between the individuals and groups driving these threats too often go unmentioned, and someone casually following the news can easily miss how widespread and common the increasingly dehumanizing rhetoric, political repression, and threats of violence have become.” [The New Republic]
Natasha Lennard writes that “the idea that a woman leader ‘opens doors’ for other women, as Clinton suggested, is of course laughable. That’s especially true when that leader is a fascist keen to stop abortions and do away with employment quotas that favor women — quite literally shuttering women in the nuclear home — while locking out immigrant women from Italy’s body politic all together. The media got this right much of the time, giving prominent billing to Meloni’s far-right nationalism, but numerous English-language headlines focused solely on her being Italy’s first woman prime minister. It’s tempting to say that her position as a woman leader should be considered irrelevant, given her and her party’s vile anti-immigrant, nationalist, racist, anti-LGBTQ+ politics. But ignoring her womanhood misses some crucial points about her political ideology.” [The Intercept]
Kathryn Joyce writes that Ali Alexander, a key organizer of the "Stop the Steal" protests, has joined “a handful of far-right activists, including white nationalist leader Nick Fuentes and failed Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer, who are discouraging their fans and followers from voting as a rebuke to the GOP. The trend began in August with Loomer, a self-declared ‘proud Islamophobe’ and white nationalist who, after losing the Republican primary in Florida's 11th congressional district, delivered a bizarre speech in which she refused to concede (‘because I'm a winner’). The following day, she urged her supporters not to vote for the Republican who defeated her, six-term incumbent Rep. Daniel Webster, in the November general election.” [Salon]
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