President Trump says it"s not racist to call Covid-19 the "Chinese Virus" in a White House briefing — but here"s why it is

The racist rhetoric around the virus could potentially be a tactic in distracting from Trump’s handling of the situation, Rep ... Grace Meng said

The racist rhetoric around the virus could potentially be a tactic in distracting from Trump’s handling of the situation, Rep ... Grace Meng said

That means challenging nativist rhetoric – and making a pitch to voters that goes beyond economicsIt could be argued that the September 2016 speech in which Hillary Clinton said “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables” was the moment she lost the White House ... The phrase was rapidly deployed to define her – and liberals more generally – as out-of-touch elitists who dismissed voters as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it,” in Clinton’s own phrase

During a confrontation, he asked students to allow him a difference of opinion, only to be told to general approbation, “You’re saying some racist shit ... College administrators, charter-school boards, and the rest of us must resist bowing to this kind of rhetoric

Drew AngererFacebook announced Friday that it would begin testing Facebook News, its dedicated feed of links to verified news outlets ... Even though publishers have long advocated for Facebook to pay them for their content, the announcement stirred up controversy over who made the cut for the platform’s latest journalism experiment

Todd Starnes of Fox Nation also called migrants a ‘rampaging horde of illegal aliens’ less than two weeks after El Paso attackA Fox News host has said that the US has been invaded by a “rampaging horde of illegal aliens” less than two weeks after 22 people were killed in a Hispanic-targeting attack in El Paso, Texas ... The comments were first noted by media watchdog Media Matters’ Jason Campbell

Two small-town Virginia churches with the same name, but very different congregations, recently found themselves tangled in controversy related to the president"s tweets

Migrants fleeing violence or seeking a better life in the US were reframed through Trump’s racist prism as an unstoppable torrent of dark-skinned psychopaths and spongers ... The latest atrocity in El Paso, when an avowed white supremacist drove for 10 hours to a supermarket used by Latino families in order to murder and maim, was explicitly motivated by Trump’s baleful, anti-immigrant rhetoric

Democratic presidential candidates go beyond calling out president’s racist rhetoric following El Paso mass shootingTwo leading Democratic presidential candidates – Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke – have said in separate interviews that they consider Donald Trump to be a white supremacist ... Asked whether she considered the president to be a white supremacist, Warren on Wednesday offered an unequivocal “Yes”, the New York Times reported