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• 4th-grader’s LGBT essay rejected by principal, who called it unacceptable, lawsuit says

  The principal told the girl’s mom the topic “was ‘not acceptable’ and that it was ‘not age-appropriate to discuss transgenders, lesbians and drag queens outside of the home,’” the suit says.

• California college to vote on ending Israel study program, with support from Rep. Tlaib

  ”This push to ban the study abroad at Haifa is nothing but the absolutely worst form of virtue signaling,” it said.

• Debra Messing apologizes after vagina cupcakes offend trans community

  “I did not, however, think ‘but there are innumerable beautiful, unique and powerful women who don’t have a vagina.’ And I SHOULD have. And for that I am so so sorry.”

• Swale council leader suspended from Conservative Party after retweeting support for Tommy Robinson

  The tweet in question said the decision to ban Mr Robinson was a “disgraceful injustice” and urged people to retweet it if they agreed, which Cllr Bowles, who represents the Boughton and Courtenay ward, did.

• 2 Swastikas Drawn In Blood In Los Angeles Public Park

  “Acts of hate and anti-Semitism are deeply painful and have no place in the city of Los Angeles,” City Councilman David Ryu said in a statement. “With hate incidents on the rise locally and nationally, we must stand up for our diverse communities and their safety.”

• Transgender woman arrested in chemical spray attack eyed as hate crime in New York

  Police say the believe that Heard’s actions were racially motivated, because all of her victims were white. When police arrested her, they recovered pepper spray and a pair of scissors.

• Alice Springs Accor hotel manager replaced as racial segregation claims reviewed

  The spokesperson for the Paris-based company also said they would be issuing a “formal communication to all employees reiterating our anti-discrimination expectations” and would be running “local anti-discrimination training” this week.

• Neo-Nazi hooligan mourned at Chemnitz football match

  “Chemnitz is an open-minded, tolerant and peaceful city,” said a statement issued Sunday. “We distance ourselves emphatically from all racist and right-wing actions and statements.”

• Vandals daub swastikas and homophobic graffiti on First World War memorial

  The writing reads: “To Tom. Good luck in war.

  “You are a f*g. Go die in war.”

• EMT fired by Stuart rescue squad after reports of his racially insensitive comments on a neo-Nazi podcast

  According to the summary of its investigation, the Virginia Office of EMS had received on Nov. 26 an anonymous online complaint that McNabb’s “‘far right-wing views’ on social media should render him unable to perform as an EMT in Virginia.

• Confederate statue removed from historic N Carolina court

  Elsewhere, two North Carolina Confederate statues have been torn down by protesters in recent years, including one at a historic Durham courthouse and another on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Louisville Free Public Library cancels drag queen story time

  “The popular and successful Drag Queen Story Hours that have happened in cities across the country are programs consistent with the Louisville Free Public Library’s values of respect for individuals and inclusion and we expect there to be a welcoming audience for this kind of program in Louisville. We plan to offer something similar in the future.”

• Murder charge for NJ man accused of deadly racial attack on white man

  Police have said Hubbard, who is black, did not know Wolkowitz, who is white, prior to the attack.

• Robert E. Lee statue toppled off stand in Florida

  It’s not known how the bust was separated from a larger monument dedicated to the leader or who did it.

• Dick’s Sporting Goods to stop selling guns in 125 stores

  “If they were to remove the hunting category, they would not lose as much as they would gain in other categories,” said Joseph Feldman, senior managing director at Telsey Advisory Group.

• ‘I’m sick of living in an “I find offence” society’: Northern Territory mayor slams his own council’s decision to ban merchandise bearing the popular tourism slogan ‘C U in the NT’

  ‘It’s a negative word. In common language it is not a joke,’ she said.

  ‘It’s used in a derogatory manner. It’s a swear word.

• Conservative university students outrage classmates by hanging a VERY politically incorrect sign on campus

  Members of the University of New South Wales’s Conservatives society set up a desk at the Kensington campus, in Sydney’s south east, with a sign: ‘Our immigration level is too high’.

• Swastika Found Carved Into Sand At Downers Grove Park

  Police say someone likely used their feet to carve a 10 foot by 10 foot swastika into the sand on the baseball field.

• Business owner sentenced for racial exchange during Columbus road rage incident

  Jeffrey Whitman, a white man, called Charles Lovett, a black man, the ‘n-word’ several times after a road rage incident.

  He pleaded guilty to ethnic intimidation, a reduction from the original disorderly conduct charge.

  Whitman’s lawyer Mark Collins also said Whitman got professional help to learn why calling black people the n-word is wrong.

• Norwegian Rapper Who Said ‘F*** Jews’ Was Criticizing Israel, Prosecutors Say

  On June 10, 2018, five days before the concert, Kholardi wrote on Twitter “f***|ing Jews are so corrupt.”

• Feds: Syracuse man faces trial over threats to kill Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Obama

  Officers said Taubert during this interview at times admitted to threatening Waters, but defended himself, saying the purpose of his call was to tell Waters she was a “low-IQ n*****.”

• Interim UT President Randy Boyd looks for avenues to curb racist events after blackface incident

  “We for racial equality boys,” the caption reads. “Bout to get this free college now that I’m black let’s gooooo #blacklivesmatter.”

• Hindu Extremist burn down 200 Muslim homes in India

  Despite the rise in tensions between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs businesses are trying to diffuse the hostilities by creating harmonious ad campaigns. Detergent brand Surf, the largest in the region, created a heart-warming commercial promoting Hindu-Muslim harmony as part of its latest ‘Holi’ campaign.

• Geneva: Muslim councillor ‘forced to sit out council meeting because of headscarf’

  [E]lected representatives in Geneva are banned from displaying religious symbols including headscarves when taking part in plenary council sessions or during other official acts when they are in public view.

  Tiguemounine chose not to remove her headscarf for Tuesday’s council meeting which meant she could not vote during the session.

• Online activists are silencing us, scientists say

  A Twitter user who identifies himself as a patient called Paul Watton (@thegodofpleasur) wrote: “I really am looking forward to his professional demise and his much-deserved public humiliation.” Another, Anton Mayer (@MECFSNews), likened Sharpe’s behaviour to “that of an abuser.”

• Jewish student describes feeling ‘intimidated’ at panel where Leeds University Union voted down motion to combat antisemitism

  “I barely slept last night. I cannot stop thinking of the injustice of how this motion was approached by the vast crowd who turned up to intimidate me (attempting) to get me to withdraw. Why’s the Jewish community the only one who aren’t allowed to define our own oppression?”

• Border Patrol: Guatemalan man convicted of child rape re-entered U.S. via El Paso

  Quinilla was arrested on March 22, 2005 in Massachusetts and charged with Rape of Child with Force, a felony. Quinilla was later found guilty and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Quinilla was subsequently deported to Guatemala in 2009.

• Suspected neo-Nazis behind bomb threats across Germany: reports

  More than 100 threatening emails signed off with “National Socialist Offensive,” “NSU 2.0” — short for National Socialist Underground — or “Wehrmacht” have been sent to prominent politicians and state institutions since the end of 2018, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and public broadcaster NDR reported late Wednesday.

• Rwanda invites Emmanuel Macron to attend 25th anniversary of genocide

  Kigali has long insisted that France supported the Hutu regime and helped train the soldiers and militiamen who carried out the killing of minority ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

• Front Page of Polish Paper Runs Piece on ‘How to Spot a Jew’

  The Polish-language weekly, Tylko Polska, or “Only Poland,” lists on its front page “Names, anthropological features, expressions, appearances, character traits, methods of operation” and “disinformation activities.”

• Officer dismissed from Met Police over ‘racist comment’ at march

  In an apparent response to the march organiser saying “You shouldn’t be here”, Mr Tyson tells her: “You don’t tell me what to do in my country.”

  “It’s my country.”

• Volkswagen boss apologises for Nazi gaffe

  Herbert Diess used the line “Ebit macht frei” at a company event on Tuesday.

  The phrase echoes the maxim “Arbeit Macht Frei” – meaning “work sets you free” – which was famously emblazoned in wrought-iron on the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  Ebit is a commonly used acronym for “earnings before interest and taxes”.

• Gang of six men make monkey noises at black commuter on London Underground train

  ‘We need to stop the hatred around the world man. All this racism that’s going on, it’s nonsense. We’re all the same.’

• Nike condemned for putting hijab on Iranian mathematician who chose not to wear one

  “Welcome to Women’s History Month!” the email from Nike reads, before going on to detail various upcoming events and promotions.

• Japan says transgender people must be sterilised

  Although several Asian countries, including South Korea, have similar laws, Western countries that once also used to require sterilisation, such as Norway, France and Sweden, no longer do. In 2017 the European Court of Human Rights called for the change in all 47 countries under its jurisdiction.

• Ohio woman claims her Muslim husband was fed nothing but pork sandwiches for six days by Border Patrol

  ‘I am trying to keep things afloat, but I am facing eviction and can’t afford any more for the lawyers needed to get him out.

  ‘If if he doesn’t get a bond soon or gets deported I will lose my home and my husband,’ she writes, adding ‘this has been the worst month in my whole life and in Dani’s.’

• Norfolk police officer uses phrase ‘thickism’ when referring to people with low literacy levels

  “Council takes too much money from ‘city dwellers’ and blames them for being illiterate. Now there’s a new excuse.

  “Does ‘thickism’ fall under the equality laws???? Or is it more a case of where there’s blame there’s a claim?”

• ‘Why should I care about male suicide?’ Feminist blogger behind the #SaggyBoobsMatter campaign sparks outrage for claiming she has NO concern for men who ‘kill themselves because they can’t cry’

  During the tirade, Ms Eggerue, 24, from Peckham in south London, wrote: ‘I don’t have time to think about the reasons why the system you created at my expense to benefit you is now choking you. If men are committing s*icide because they can’t cry, how’s it my concern?’

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