#racist-rhetoric

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fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago

Good Morning, News: Racist Texts From Portland Power Players, City Councilor Allegedly Fired Union Supporter, and Trump is Making a Bunch of Threats

Local real estate broker and political activists exchanged racist, sexist, and homophobic texts targeting progressive Portland councilors while council discussed entrenched racism.
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fromTruthout
1 month ago

Trump Spews Racist Vitriol Against Somalis, Calling Them "Garbage" as ICE Targets Population in Raids

The Trump administration is conducting targeted ICE raids in Minneapolis against Somali residents amid racist rhetoric from President Trump.
fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

All about anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Clay Higgins, the lone vote against Epstein files release

Republican U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana, the lone member of Congress to vote against release of the files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has a long record of anti-LGBTQ+, anti-immigrant, and racist stances. Higgins said he voted against the bill ordering release because innocent people would be injured by revelation of their names and personal information. However, "survivors' personal information and other sensitive material can be withheld or redacted with explanations to Congress," CBS News notes.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago

Hate preacher says GOP can only save the country by denying women the right to vote - LGBTQ Nation

Joel Webbon said women should not be allowed to vote and promoted extreme anti‑LGBTQ+ views, praised Confederates, and claimed Martin Luther King is in Hell.
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 months ago

CNN Anchor Clashes With Trump Fans Over Trump Chief's Anti-White Racist' Rant

Voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots. These demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been. And, by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C., are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President Trump is the one who is fixing that.
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