AFN to host session on hate and discrimination with Anti-Defamation League HEAD TOPICS
AFN to host session on hate and discrimination with Anti-Defamation League
10/21/2022 6:23:00 PM The ADL was founded more than a hundred years ago to fight anti-Semitism But their mission also includes securing ' fair and just treatment to all ' and for its Pacific Northwest office that includes in Alaska
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'Racism in Alaska, especially against Alaska Native people, is not new,' said Miriam Aarons with the Anti-Defamation League, which is hosting a talk on discrimination this morning at the Alaska Federation of Natives convention. The ADL was founded more than a hundred years ago to fight anti-Semitism. But their mission also includes securing 'fair and just treatment to all,' and for its Pacific Northwest office, that includes in Alaska. Regional Director Stephen Paolini and Advisory Board member Miriam Aarons say the Anti-Defamation League wants to do more work in Alaska in the future.The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.. And it’s really concerning to me. I think that racism has no place in our society, and especially no place in public forums, such as the Anchorage Assembly. MA: Yeah, definitely. Stephen, tell me just a little bit about the Anti-Defamation League, what that is, and then also, is there maybe more of an increased effort to be involved in Alaska here more recently?CG Read more:
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Who the FK cares😡😡😡😡😡😡 Hot pile of steaming doo doo 🤝 hot pile of steaming doo doo at 9:30 a.propaganda media network that spewed ethnic hate speech throughout the Rwandan civil war.October 20, 2022 Earlier this month, Ye tweeted a threat that he would go"death [sic] con 3" on Jewish people.'The Cross Connection' host Tiffany Cross (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) It's not just Whites, it's White women. m. Friday on addressing hate and discrimination — put on by the Anti-Defamation League. “So it’s not just whites, it’s white women. The ADL was founded more than a hundred years ago to fight anti-Semitism. Ye also criticized so-called"Jewish underground media mafia" during an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation this month. But their mission also includes securing “fair and just treatment to all,” and for its Pacific Northwest office, that includes in Alaska. “They’re dangerous. Regional Director Stephen Paolini and Advisory Board member Miriam Aarons say the Anti-Defamation League wants to do more work in Alaska in the future. Now, don't be fooled by the fact that Tiffany Cross can barely speak a coherent sentence. Listen : The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.” Later on in the segment, he also suggested that MSNBC management and its parent company, Comcast, were actively and intentionally supporting this supposed incitement by its Black host. At this point, what more do you need to review?" Greenblatt writes. Miriam Aarons : Well, racism in Alaska, especially against Alaska Native people, is not new. And I’m really excited that the ADL is expanding its anti-racism work here in Alaska. “Why are they allowing this? This is not a policy debate. I’ve seen a lot more emboldened hate speech.S. I think that you don’t need to look much further than the .” He added: “Do they know what’s happening on their channel? Are they OK with this? What do you think happens if we continue to talk this way? You may not watch this channel, but some people do. They are, by the nature of their DNA, potential domestic terrorists. And it’s really concerning to me. I think that racism has no place in our society, and especially no place in public forums, such as the Anchorage Assembly.” This is. Greenblatt pointed to a rise in anti-Semitism incidents in the U. Casey Grove : Yeah, I mean, even even if we’re just talking about the Anchorage Assembly, things in the last few years have gotten, I think it’s fair to say, really tense there. But just in general, how have you seen this change in the last few years? MA : It’s definitely more out in the open. When I was growing up, I would hear things in the hallways at school, but I never really heard adults speak openly, say racist things about Alaska Native people." The ADL, an anti-hate organization founded in 1913"to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all," in the U. It's always wrong to reduce people to the color of their skin, to their melanin content, to their DNA, and it's even worse to attack them on the basis of that. But within the last few years, I’ve definitely seen a lot more of that. And it’s, it’s really disconcerting. CG : Yeah, definitely. Antisemitic incidents include assaults, harassment and vandalism. Stephen, tell me just a little bit about the Anti-Defamation League, what that is, and then also, is there maybe more of an increased effort to be involved in Alaska here more recently? Stephen Paolini : Yeah, absolutely. And thanks for that question. People who neither discovered nor built this land have been led to believe that America is theirs and theirs alone. So we are certainly founded in a support for the Jewish community, but we want to work and support all communities. I’m not Jewish myself, but I come to this work with firsthand experience with ADL supporting me when I experienced hate and bias. And over the last year, we’ve really looked to redouble our commitment to working in Alaska. But one of the key challenges that we have is reporting here in Alaska, is really, really sparse. FBI Uniform Criminal Code data showed just nine incidents of hate crimes last year. This woman, Tiffany Cross, whose clips you've been watching, is so deranged by a racialist worldview that she believes all people of one color are oppressed by all people of another color. And we know that’s not indicative of the experience on the ground. And it shows a real gap. And for my role at ADL, we want to help close that by being a source where folks can report when they’ve experienced hate and bias and get that support that they need. That’s my job, is to support victims, and most importantly, make sure that we understand the size and scale of the problem, which is quite, quite extreme here. And in all communities, really. I mean, it just represents a larger issue. CG : When you talk about tools for reporting hate and bias, what does that look like? I mean, what does reporting hate look like when someone’s experienced that? SP : Yeah, so individuals report to ADL for a variety of reasons. Our office has handled a little bit under 500 incidents of hate and bias. And they run the full gamut from, you know, noncriminal incidents that are nonetheless very serious and must be condemned. Just to give a quick example, one of our board members here in Alaska was recently victimized by really virulently anti-Semitic fliers that were distributed around Anchorage. And it might not be a crime, but it’s really serious and concerning and indicative of a larger trend of toxicity in our discourse and harassment of people based on their identity. But if you look at that picture and say this is White supremacy, what are you really saying? You're saying that anybody involved in the sport who is White defiles the sport because Whiteness is itself inherently corrupting. And then it ranges all the way up to criminal acts. And folks report to us sometimes because they don’t feel comfortable reporting to law enforcement. But other times because they just want to make sure there’s an advocate to help work closely with law enforcement to make sure they understand the full context of what’s happening in that incident. But we like to see ourselves as sort of an ally and an advocate for people. CG : Miriam, for you, I mean, you’ve been to AFN before, this is kind of one of these breakout sessions, away from the main floor. Again, you have to wonder, what does Comcast’s board think of this? It's not a rhetorical question, really, now that we're talking about sports, because Comcast also owns an NHL team, a hockey team, the Philadelphia Fliers and maybe not surprisingly, the NHL just published its first ever diversity report and according to that report, we have a huge problem with hockey and the problem is there are too many White people in hockey. What do you expect from this? I mean, what do you think it’s going to be like, and what do you think people are going to tell you? MA : I really don’t have any expectations. I hope that people are willing to attend and share their experiences and their concerns. I hope that they learn about the ADL’s mission, and that the ADL learns more about what people are experiencing on the ground here in Alaska. I think that doing nothing when incidents of racism occur supports that kind of behavior. So I think it’s really important to stop it when you can. Again, do you want to live in a country where powerful people talk this way? What do you think it looks like in five years? The head of the NHL's"Social Impact Division" said,"We have a lot of work to do. It’s poison. It’s contagious. And it’s it’s not something that I think the majority of Alaskans want to see in our society. .