OTTAWA — Combating online hate is one of the main efforts getting a financial boost from Ottawa’s anti-racism strategy, with more than a dozen projects receiving federal funding Thursday. © Provided by The Canadian Press Diversity Minister Bardish Chagger listed 85 projects that will share $15 million from the strategy’s […]
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Is an Algorithm Less Racist Than a Loan Officer?
Brennan Johnson, left, and Trevor McIntosh, who secured a mortgage for their home through Better.com, in front of their home in Wheat Ridge, Colo., August 18, 2020. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times) In 2015, Melany Anderson’s 6-year-old daughter came home from a play date and asked her mother a heartbreaking […]
‘Antifa hunter’ gets 3 years for online racist threats
A Florida man who called himself “the Antifa hunter” as he waged an online campaign to terrorize and harass those who opposed his white supremacist ideology was sentenced on Monday to more than three years in prison. Daniel McMahon, 32, of Brandon, Florida, pleaded guilty in April to using social […]
Racist history of Manhattan Beach resurfaces amid BLM movement
The racist past of Manhattan Beach is revealed as Black Lives Matter movements urge cities across the country to confront their history. A popular resort for Black travelers formerly on Manhattan Beach was shut down by racist white residents, a relatively unknown historical fact. Now, the community is faced with […]
8 Women of Color on What Self-Care Looks Like in a Racist Society
Sundays are a day to recharge and reset by hanging with friends, turning off your phone, bathing for hours on end, or doing whatever else works for you. In this column (in conjunction with our Instagram Self-Care Sunday series), we ask editors, experts, influencers, writers, and more what a perfect self-care Sunday means to […]
Is it racist if I don’t want to date outside my own race?
“But Damona, isn’t it my choice who I date?” (Ross May / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images) L.A. love coach Damona Hoffman tackles dating and relationship questions on her weekly podcast, “Dates & Mates.” She said she receives many topical, thought-provoking relationship questions, but none has ever struck a chord […]
Tucker Carlson criticizes racist comments of show writer but offers no apology
Tucker Carlson at Fox News studios in Manhattan on Oct. 1, 2018. (Jennifer S. Altman / Los Angeles Times) Fox News host Tucker Carlson distanced himself and his program from the incendiary hate speech posted online by a former writer who worked on his top-rated program. But critics who expected […]
Tucker Carlson Announces ‘Vacation’ After Top Writer’s Racist, Sexist Posts Revealed
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson addressed the resignation of Blake Neff, a writer for Carlson’s show who quit soon after a CNN report revealed racist and sexist comments he had posted online. Carlson admitted to the viewers of his show on Monday night that “what Blake wrote anonymously was wrong.” “We don’t […]
Tucker Carlson writer Blake Neff resigns over racist messages
Fox said Tucker Carlson would address the topic in his show on Monday A top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has resigned after posting racist and sexist comments online. Blake Neff, who joined Tucker Carlson Tonight in 2017, resigned on Friday after a CNN investigation. It found that […]
Top Tucker Carlson writer at Fox News resigns after alleged racist, sexist online remarks
A top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has resigned after reports surfaced that he had posted racist and sexist comments in an online forum known to be a hotbed for offensive and bigoted remarks, Fox News executives confirmed in a memo Saturday, Variety reported. CNN Business first reported […]
Tucker Carlson Writer Resigns From Fox News After Racist Posts Were Exposed Online
A top writer for Fox News’ host Tucker Carlson resigned from the network after he was exposed for posting bigoted comments online. According to CNN Business, writer Blake Neff had spent years secretly writing racist, sexist, and homophobic remarks on AutoAdmit, an unmoderated online forum widely refer to as the “4Chan for law students and […]
Fox News condemns former Tucker Carlson writer for ‘horrific’ racist, sexist comments
Tucker Carlson on the set of his show in New York in 2017. (Richard Drew / Associated Press) Blake Neff, a writer for “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” has resigned from the top-rated Fox News show amid reports he posted racist, sexist and homophobic comments to an online forum under a pseudonym. […]
Fox host’s writer quits after racist and sexist online comments revealed
Photograph: Richard Drew/AP One of Fox host Tucker Carlson’s top writers has resigned after a CNN investigation found he was posting racist and sexist comments online under a pseudonym. Under the name “CharlesXII”, Blake Neff regularly posted offensive language on an online forum called AutoAdmit. In June, for example, Neff […]
Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s top writer resigned. A CNN Business report alleges he used racist, sexist language on an online forum under a pseudonym.
Tucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” poses for photos in a Fox News Channel studio, in New York, Thursday, March 2, 2107. Richard Drew/AP Blake Neff, the top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has resigned, a network spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. His resignation came in tandem […]
Writer For Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Show Resigns After Reports Of Racist, Offensive Posts
Click here to read the full article. A top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has resigned after the discovery of an online forum in which he reportedly used a pseudonym to make racist and offensive remarks. CNN Business reported that Neff had been posting on the online forum […]
Washington reckons with tributes to racist past
Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Gordon J Davis’s first encounter with the political writings of Woodrow Wilson was as a student at Columbia University. “I’m reading this stuff and saying: ‘That’s a great man,’ and mentioned it to my father who said: ‘Well, he wasn’t such a great man to us,’” recalls […]
Colleges Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racist Social Media Posts Emerge
The University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Fla., Feb. 26, 2020. (Eve Edelheit/The New York Times) A star high school athlete recruited to play football for Cornell University will no longer be attending the school after a Snapchat video of him using a racial slur went viral. Marquette University revoked […]
Shane Dawson demonetized on YouTube amid reckoning for racist videos, beauty guru drama
YouTube demonetized one of its biggest creators on Tuesday as Shane Dawson faces a reckoning for past videos which featured racist jokes and the sexualization of minors, as well as his involvement in drama from last year that nearly destroyed a beauty YouTuber’s career. The platform has suspended the ability […]
The Gathering’ has permanently banned cards it acknowledged were ‘racist or culturally offensive’
A player holds a hand of cards in “Magic the Gathering.” The company announced in June that it would no longer feature cards that were “racist or culturally offensive.” Gordon Chibroski/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Magic: The Gathering has scrapped several cards that the company acknowledged are “racist or […]