The ability to disregard all shades of nuance is a privilege that plays directly into the hands of warmongers.

I’ve seen too many people cheer on violence, murder and rape, all the while having to text friends of mine to see if they & their families are safe. I woke up this morning to the news that 250+ were potentially killed at a festival for peace near the Gazan border. I’ve seen people I usually agree with celebrate this or labelling it as ‘decolonization’.

All North American settlers, of course.

I'm playing a bit of catch-up here, but prominent Québec white nationalist Alexandre Cormier-Denis recently made a 2nd appearance on Radio X, one of the biggest radio stations in the province of Québec.

Obviously bad! But this one quote from the show illustrates just how bad.🧵 For context: Alexandre Cormier-Denis is the host of Nomos-TV, a French-language podcast with a not-insignificant following in Québec and in France. antihate.ca/quebec_nomos_t…

You've definitely seen it, but you might not have picked up on it: anti-fatness is everywhere in far-right politics. Unfortunately, there's been very little focus on why that is.

🧵Let's talk about it and start a conversation.🧵 One of my goals with #OHREP has been to look at communities targeted by hate which are too often ignored by researchers in our field. The targeting of fat people very much falls within that focus. It's puzzling, because anti-fatness is actually... very prominent in these spaces.

Some good news this morning - Gabriel Sohier-Chaput, aka 'Zeiger', writer of 1000s of articles for the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, has been found guilty of promoting hatred against Jews.

🧵Here's why I think this matters, a lot.🧵

https://twitter.com/NoBordersMedia/status/1617562010442514442?s=20&t=xjELKwKAmBSASKsP845YtQ

Antifascists had been worried a different outcome was likely. Rather than consider the whole of Sohier-Chaput's writings, the trial was focused on a single article.

Still, even in this one article, Sohier-Chaput calls for 'Non-stop Nazism, everywhere'.

On Hatepedia.ca, we listed the Burger King Crown as a contextual hate symbol, meaning that's it's an otherwise innocent symbol which has been co-opted for hateful uses.

How so? Let's go on a journey together, in a short 🧵 1. In October 2020, a man wearing a Burger King Crown boarded a New York-bound flight and screamed anti-Black and misogynistic slurs at another passenger. The incident was caught on camera. nypost.com/2020/10/23/man…

I've been teasing this for months, and it's finally here!

As of this morning, our #OHREP website Hatepedia.ca is finally live. We've been working hard for months (and will keep working hard) to build it into an important resource in the fight against hate in Canada. On Hatepedia, you'll find a few tools we've created to help people make sense of online hate. Most importantly, you'll find a list of symbols used to promote hate on-(and off)line in Canada.

All symbols were found in actual hateful memes, posted on major social media platforms.

🧵 1. Part of why it’s important to understand the meaning of hate symbols/memes is that they can often tell you a lot about the person displaying them.

Let’s use this fresh basket of Hell as a case study. (Thanks @BaruchelNDG!)

https://twitter.com/BaruchelNDG/status/1517671697318440960

2. There’s quite a bit going on here, so let’s start with one of the images that comes back a lot here.

This is a clown pepe/honkler. It more or less is used to express the belief that we live in a ‘clown world’. It’s a way of calling their opponents crazy, basically.

1. Two days after a close associate of theirs was arrested at the Coutts blockade and gear featuring their logo was seized, members of the Diagolon network are on the defensive, with some claiming the movement is nothing more than a joke. Good time for a 🧵 on irony poisoning!

https://twitter.com/antihateca/status/1493727043392978947

2. First, some context. Diagolon is a fictional country first envisioned by a group of antisemitic streamers, which spans across North America from Alaska to Florida in a more or less diagonal line. It’s meant to represent jurisdictions with fewer COVID restrictions.