Trump 2.0 är här, med allt vad det innebär.
När högerextrema rörelser vinner politisk mark och deras anhängare känner sig bekräftade, brukar det märkas både online och offline. Efter att Donald Trump vann USA-valet dröjde det precis som förra gången inte länge innan trakasserier och hatbrott mot flickor, kvinnor och minoriteter ökade i intensitet. Nedan följer en länklista med ett urval av rapporterat hat, hot, rasism och antisemitism veckorna efter presidentvalet.
Afroamerikanska studenter och skolbarn i minst 13 delstater får rasistiska sms och kallas slavar
The texts, which began as early as Wednesday morning, were reported across the country. […] The texts followed a pattern: addressing recipients by name, telling them they had been selected to ‘pick cotton’ on a plantation and ordering them to show up at a specific time to be picked up by slave handlers.
Wave of Racist Texts After Election Prompts F.B.I.’s Scrutiny (New York Times, 7/11)
‘Although Hopkins Public School is nonpartisan, we recognize that the outcome of the election has and will continue to spark instances of racism, homophobia, and sexism in school communities across the nation and state, including here in Hopkins’.
Black students in Hopkins receive racist text messages referencing slavery, district says (CBS News, 8/11)
Latinos och hbtqi-personer får hat-sms om att de ska utvisas eller skickas till omskolningsläger
The F.B.I. is investigating messages that told people they would be deported or transported to a ‘re-education camp.’ They came after racist texts were sent to Black people.
New Wave of Offensive Texts Targets Hispanic and L.G.B.T.Q. People (New York Times, 17/11)
Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ+ Americans across the U.S. say they received offensive text messages after the 2024 elections.
Flickor och kvinnor trakasseras och våldtäktshotas
The use of derogatory and misogynistic language was already rife among well-noted manosphere and extremist communities on these platforms, and this activity has only gained steam in the past three days since the election. ISD also observed reports of these narratives being used to harass women offline, particularly on high school and college campuses.
“Your body, my choice:” Hate and harassment towards women spreads online (Institute for Strategic Dialogue, 8/11)
‘Although Justin says he has been on Bluesky for more than a year, he mostly used X until this week. 'After the election, the timeline was full of Swifties getting DMs from Trump supporters threatening rape or sexual assault and making sexually violent comments gloating because Trump won,' he says.
Maskerade nazister viftar med hakkorsflaggor utanför teater i Michigan som spelar pjäsen Anne Franks dagbok
President-elect Donald Trump's reelection was credited for emboldening a group of people waving Nazi flags in Michigan over the weekend.
'Hail Hitler and hail Trump': People wave Nazi flags outside Jewish play in Michigan (Rawstory, 11/11)
[M]any of the 75 people who watched the play were afraid to leave the building and had to be escorted to their cars.
Demonstrators wave Nazi flags outside local theater performance of ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ in Michigan (CNN, 11/11)
National experts describe a familiar pattern: Small groups of mostly masked men chant and wave swastika or white power flags in public and yell racial slurs at targets as varied as immigrants, Black people, Jews and L.G.B.T.Q. people. They unfurl offensive banners over highways or post racist fliers in communities. The demonstrations are typically captured on video and ricochet across social media to large audiences.
White Supremacist Incidents Are Rising Across the U.S. (New York Times, 21/11)
WIRED compiled all reported instances of similar neo-Nazi demonstrations, gleaned from local news reports and social media, and counted 34 in total for 2024, across 16 states. That’s compared to about 30 demonstrations in 2023, 22 in 2022, and four in 2021. Experts say they are now happening with such frequency that they risk becoming normalized.
Neo-Nazis Are on the March Across America (Wired, 26/11)
Relaterat (Trump 1.0)
[A] collection of more than 500 videos that ProPublica determined were taken during the events of Jan. 6 and were relevant and newsworthy. Taken together, they provide one of the most comprehensive records of a dark event in American history through the eyes of those who took part.
What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol (ProPublica, 17/2021)
Two years ago, Patrick Eugene Stein hatched a plot with two other men to kill Somali refugees by blowing up an apartment complex in Kansas that contained a mosque.
The men referred to Muslims as cockroaches and, in the words of prosecutors, ‘described in the most extreme and violent terms what they planned to do to them.’
Trump’s rhetoric is partly to blame for a man’s plot to bomb Muslim refugees, his lawyer says (CNN, 31/10 2018)
The men — at least two of whom had posted pro-Trump messages on social media, according to reports — at times invoked anti-Islam rhetoric expressed by Trump and his allies during the 2016 election.
Three Kansas militiamen who plotted to bomb Muslims are found guilty on terrorism charges (Washington Post, 18/4 2018)
In 2016, the SPLC documented 867 bias-related incidents in the 10 days following the presidential election, including incidents in which Muslim Americans were frequently characterized as terrorists. Many of the perpetrators invoked Trump’s name.
Trump's anti-Muslim words and policies have consequences (Southern Poverty Law Center, 24/4 2018)
Hate crimes based on someone’s race, ethnicity or ancestry spiked the day after President Trump’s election victory in 2016. There were a total of 3489 race-based hate crimes in 2016, up to 5 percent from the previous year.
Hate crimes rose the day after Trump was elected, FBI data show (Washington Post, 23/3 2018)
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