History Minute (077): The Klan called all these people "threats to white American society"

"From originally being a brotherhood determined to reinstate slavery, the Klan identified myriad alleged threats to white American society after the end of the First World War in 1918. Catholics, Asians, the labour movement, Communists and to some extent Jews were all accused of threatening white American civilization."

Excerpt from:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21567689.2020.1809384

The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism

In countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, where the conservative Theravada strain predominates, monks have emerged as central figures in movements that promote sectarian hatred, abandoning the teachings of the Buddha in favour of a more common and earthly goal: political power. My journey to Dharamshala and across other parts of the Buddhist world was driven by a need to understand how this transformation had occurred…

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/25/the-dangerous-rise-of-buddhist-extremism-attaining-nirvana-can-wait

 

The antichrist has long haunted American politics. Now it’s rearing its head again

Labelling neighbors "antichrist" is not simply an insult; in this very Protestant American culture, it marks the enemy of God and humanity, the architect of persecution, the final deceiver. Once your opponents become eschatological villains, the normal habits of politics and pluralism feel like complicity with evil. In extreme cases, violence begins to look sanctifying...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/antichrist-peter-thiel-michigan

 

Pope Leo criticises ‘exclusionary mindset’ of nationalist political movements | Pope Leo XIV | The Guardian

During Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square, the pope asked that God 'open borders, break down walls (and) dispel hatred'…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/08/pope-leo-criticises-exclusionary-mindset-of-nationalist-political-movements 

 

This is Florida. It’s all I’m allowed to teach.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/13k1kmm/when_all_the_books_are_burned/

Former Fox News politics editor says network stoked ‘paranoia and hatred’ | Fox News | The Guardian

"Even in the four years since the previous presidential election, Fox viewers had become even more accustomed to flattery and less willing to hear news that challenged their expectation," Stirewalt's memoir adds.

That was even the case when viewers' expectations amounted to "black-helicopter-level paranoia and hatred", according to the memoir…

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/22/chris-stirewalter-fox-news-book-trump-2020-election

Opinion: The problem with Ted Cruz's defense of a Nazi salute - CNN

… The question here is not about free speech and what it allows. The issue is whether Americans and their political leaders will act on the basis of a higher principle than political point-scoring, and ultimately be able to douse the flames of hatred and division that are weakening the country. Ted Cruz, it seems, doesn't get it...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/opinions/problem-with-ted-cruzs-defense-nazi-salute-ghitis/index.html

End Times Pastor Irvin Baxter Says Hatred of Trump Is 'Deeply Inhuman' - RWW News

End Times pastor Irvin Baxter says that hatred of Trump is "deeply inhuman" and driven by Satan's fury that Trump is messing up his plans to create a one-world government. ...
https://youtu.be/vsnZ1QHIIzQ

The Daily Wire is a cesspool of bigotry and hatred

https://youtu.be/7owlpEbo7x4

Liberals add far-right extremist groups to list of outlawed terror networks - CBC News

The Liberal government has added two international neo-Nazi groups to Canada's list of outlawed terrorist organizations — part of a series of new measures to combat online hate.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/goodale-terrorism-right-wing-extremism-1.5190685

‘It was getting ugly,’ Native American elder says after MAGA-hat teens surrounded him - The Washington Post:

The tense encounter in Washington prompted outrage on social media....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/it-was-getting-ugly-native-american-drummer-on-the-maga-hat-wearing-teens-who-surrounded-him/2019/01/19/41678d84-1c1b-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html

Native American Congresswoman Condemns White Teens Who Taunted an Omaha Elder - Mother Jones

Footage of white teenagers taunting a Native American man in Washington, DC, has sparked outrage and prompted a Native American member of Congress to condemn their "display of blatant hate, disrespect, and intolerance." ...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/native-american-congresswoman-teens-taunted-elder/

Top Republican tries to deflect incitement of hatred, violence away from GOP and on to Nancy Pelosi - Daily Kos

Less than 24 hours after what's probably the deadliest attack on Jews in the nation's history, the incredibly odious Sen. John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, tweeted this: ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1808158

Trump resumes tweeting about caravan conspiracy theories that apparently inspired Pittsburgh shooter - ThinkProgress.org

President Donald Trump resumed tweeting baseless conspiracy theories about a migrant caravan that is traveling north from Central America on Monday morning, less than 48 hours after an anti-Semite who reportedly promoted similar conspiracy theories on social media murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-twitter-migrant-caravan-pittsburgh-shooting-robert-bowers-gab-f5f412c1a7ab/

In the Wake of the Pittsburgh Massacre, Sarah Sanders Gaslights America - Mother Jones

It was not surprising. Giving the first White House news briefing in weeks, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued the predictable words: "The American people reject hatred, bigotry, prejudice, and violence." But President Donald Trump has not rejected any of that. The case is undeniable—except Trump and his minions keep denying it. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/in-the-wake-of-the-pittsburgh-massacre-sarah-sanders-gaslights-america/

Enough platitudes: Let’s name names - The Washington Post: Opinion

Let's end the lazy thinking and the moral denseness. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/29/enough-platitudes-lets-name-names/

Fox News host: 'Anti-Semitism from the left' is the real cause of hateful attacks on Jews - Raw Story

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday blamed "the left" for the rise in hate against Jews in America. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/fox-news-host-anti-semitism-left-real-cause-hateful-attacks-jews/

Video shows white woman demanding Guatemalan family show their passports in a restaurant - VICE:

"You don't freeload in this fucking country," the white woman can be heard saying to the family, who were here on vacation. "You get the fuck out, back to your fucking country." ....
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j53zmp/video-shows-white-woman-demanding-guatemalan-family-show-their-passports-in-a-restaurant

Trump is responsible for the descent into thuggery - The Washington Post: Opinion

Yes, let's blame Trump. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/25/trump-is-responsible-for-the-descent-into-thuggery/

Why is the mob angry? Because Trump is ripping us apart with bigotry and hatred - The Washington Post: Opinion

Trump is the cancer at the center of it all. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/12/why-is-the-mob-angry-because-trump-is-ripping-us-apart-with-bigotry-and-hatred/