alexcl4rk
Alex Clark
alexcl4rk
Alex Clark is a video journalist and filmmaker covering social inequality, the internet and American politics. He's a Senior Producer at GMG and instructs video at Columbia Journalism School.

For Fox News rabble rousers, blurring complex and detailed systems in to easy-to-hate symbols, mascots, and memes is literally an art form. Read more

cant wait for the meaningful and polite conversations to take place in these comments Read more

My favorite rhetorical device is the one used recently by Rep. Steve King (Nazi-IA), when he said (I paraphrase), “White supremacy, western culture... what’s wrong with them?” Read more

I’m just a lowly gray across most GMG blogs, so what do I know, but why the fuck are several quite un-greyed comments in the “staff” section expressing explicitly white supremacist ideas? Like, aren’t these people supposed to be moderated away? Why are they being highlighted? Read more

To anyone that still believes in the myth of White supremacy, I offer two words: Terry Crews. Read more

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The whole idea that a percentage of humans are innately superior to others because they’re more likely to die of skin cancer is on its face absurd. Read more

What an incredible human being. We need to see more stories like this. Read more

They did, though, in so many words. They were chanting to build the wall.
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This series covers facets of Islam through Muslims sharing their individual interpretations and communal relationship with their faith. This platform is valuable because there is a wealth of misinformation about a group that comprises 1.5B+ adherents and has substantial influence in both govt. representation and forei Read more

Interesting to see what Jihad means to these folks.  But irrelevant.  The only meaning of Jihad that matters is the one applied by the guy flying a plane into the WTC or driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market. Read more

It’s not what it “actually” means, it what it means to some, maybe even “most,” Muslims. Don’t be so daft as to take a few educated and westernized Muslims and turn them into a monolith.   Read more

The racists are quick off the mark for this one, I see. Brown people scaaaaarrrryyyyy! Read more

You may wish to actually ensure that the verses you link contain the *word* in question before going down this route. Read more

If these verses are not about Jihad, what on earth are they about? Read more