On Saturday, a gunman killed eight people in a mall shooting in Allen, Texas. In the aftermath, police said the alleged gunman, who died in the shooting, expressed neo-Nazi and far-right views online. Influencers on the right immediately tried to cast aspersion on those claims, given the gunman, Mauricio Garcia, appeared to be of Latino … Read more
“WTF are kpop stylists doing?? It’s like they’ll make an idol wear any shirt with english on it if it’s ~aesthetic~ enough,” one fan wrote on Reddit. “WHERE WAS CHAEYOUNG ON JAN 6th?!” one commenter said on TikTok. It’s unclear whether Son owns the clothes or if they were the work of a stylist, but … Read more
Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter for “incitement to violence,” Elon Musk has announced. Ye shared a series of tweets to his page on Thursday, one of which featured a photo of a Jewish Star of David with a swastika in the middle. “YE24. LOVE EVERYONE #LOVESPEECH,” the rapper wrote alongside the image, referring … Read more
Odds are, seeing a swastika invokes only the most unsavory images of hatred, fascism and flagrant racism—both of Nazis and death camps from WWII, and, sadly, of white supremacy groups of today. There’s good reason that many note it as a physical manifestation of evil. However, even if it isn’t widely talked about, it’s no … Read more