Tag: Racism

Verified accounts could soon lose their checkmark for a number of reasons including inciting, promoting, and engaging in harassment, violence, and/or hate. (iStock)

Twitter strips verification badges from white nationalists after unveiling new guidelines

Katie Leach · November 16, 2017 12:47 am

No reasonable conservative would contend that racial discrimination doesn't exist anymore today, so to some extent it seems we must concede white privilege is a real phenomenon, though we may disagree over both the degree of its impact and how it's applied. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

How conservatives can engage privilege theory

Emily Jashinsky · November 15, 2017 11:55 pm

The song, originally performed on "Saturday Night Live" by Steve Martin as "King Tut," actually criticizes the commercialization and trivialization of Egyptian history and presents a caricature of the Treasures of Tutankhamun traveling exhibit that toured seven United States cities from 1976 to 1979. (Screenshot)

Red Alert Politics

Students triggered by Steve Martin’s ‘King Tut’ on ‘SNL’

Richard Raps · November 15, 2017 5:01 am

While very few millennials agreed, 29 percent of white millennials did indicate they believe minorities are taking away their employment opportunities. (iStock photo)

Study: White millennials believe they face equal discrimination as minorities

Aubree Poole · November 14, 2017 8:55 pm

Steve Bannon, the former chief strategist to President Trump, said he did not see the alt-right as a group motivated by racism. Instead, he thought that welcoming the group into the fold was more about harnessing the energy it brought to the culture wars. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Steve Bannon: Racists in alt-right will be ‘burned out over time’

Eddie Scarry · November 14, 2017 3:08 pm

Anglo-Americanism is pure and good, its critics are sad and silly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

FBI: Number of hate crimes rose nearly 5 percent in 2016

Kelly Cohen · November 13, 2017 6:47 pm

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was named GQ magazine's "Citizen of the Year." GQ wrote that Kaepernick has been "blackballed" for his protests against police brutality. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

GQ names Colin Kaepernick ‘Citizen of the Year’ after NFL protests

Caitlin Yilek · November 13, 2017 2:30 pm

A majority of white Americans, 55 percent, feel there is discrimination against them in today's world. Putting aside egregious cases of academic malfeasance at places like Middlebury College, however, this doesn't mean there is an actual bias against straight, white men. But given man's propensity for tribalism, it can definitely feed the perception of one. (Wikimedia Commons)

Beltway Confidential

No, whites do not face discrimination en masse today

Jerrod Laber · November 13, 2017 5:01 am

"That's what it looks like to be an activist coming out of the NFL," Mast said of Pat Tillman, rather than protesting "during the most important moment of that entire game when everybody comes together." (Image courtesy screenshot)

Veteran lawmaker Brian Mast: NFL player protest ‘really pisses me off’

Naomi Lim · November 12, 2017 8:13 pm

Kylo Ren may well have earned the Twitter account Emo Kylo Ren with his unfortunate choice of haircut and temper tantrums, but there is something eerily familiar to what his character reflects in politics today. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Kylo Ren from Star Wars is more politically relevant than you think

Stephen Kent · November 11, 2017 3:19 pm

The Police Accountability Act is one of the House Democrats' answers to the police brutality that they say still plagues black Americans around the country. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Democrats demand death penalty for cops who commit assault, murder

Pete Kasperowicz · November 10, 2017 12:58 pm

Lt. Gen. Jay Silveria gave a speech about race relations to cadets on Sept. 29 at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., after someone wrote racial slurs on message boards outside the dorm rooms of five black students. It was later revealed it was a black student who had perpetrated a hoax. (screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Byron York: At Air Force Academy, a perfect hoax for age of Trump

Byron York · November 10, 2017 4:37 am