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He came, he saw, he tried to conquer. Instead, he got arrested: Craig Cobb’s attempts to turn Leith, N.D., into a white-supremacist enclave have hit a wall now that he’s in a local jail, accused of terrorizing townsfolk.But there’s a new, ironic twist to his thwarted takeover attempt. You might even call it a case of reverse racism.The Los Angeles Times has previously cataloged Cobb’s plot and the repeated stumbles he’s faced -- first running afoul of local health rules, then discovering on a nationally syndicated talk…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePaul Schrader has claimed that the way his new film deals with racism led to its rejection from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).The 76-year-old director and screenwriter’s latest crime thriller, Master Gardener, stars Australian actor Joel Edgerton as Narvel Roth, a reformed white supremacist-turned-horticulturist.Narvel develops an unlikely romance with the biracial…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe 2022 horror film Soft & Quiet arrived on US Netflix on 1 May, and many viewers have been posting on social media about its “unflinching dedication to confront racism”.In the one-take indie from writer-director Beth de Araújo, a primary school teacher (Stefanie Estes) organises a mixer of like-minded white supremacist women, where an encounter with someone from her past spirals…

Kevin Spacey spoke about his “complicated” family upbringing while on the stand at his ongoing sexual abuse trial in New York.The former House of Cards actor revealed that his father, Thomas Fowler, was “a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi”.Spacey alleged that his father’s bigotry made him feel “shame” about his sexuality, leading him to become private about his personal life. In his testimony, Spacey’s accuser Anthony Rapp had said that Spacey was a fraud for not being openly gay.“To call someone a fraud is to say someone…

Spotify likes to talk a big game about how it prohibits extremist content on its platform, but that doesn’t mean it actually does something about it, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League. The watchdog group criticized the streaming platform for allowing dozens of white supremacist artists on its platform, verifying them, and promoting their music to unsuspecting listeners.In the report, the ADL’s Center on Extremism found 40 white supremacist artists across a variety of music genres and sub-genres…

Facebook served ads on searches related to white supremacist groups, despite a ban on such content on the platform, according to a report by the Tech Transparency Project. The report, which was first covered by The Washington Post, identified 119 Facebook pages and 20 Facebook groups affiliated with white supremacist organizations on the platform. Researchers searched Facebook for 226 designated hate groups or dangerous organizations using sources like the Southern Poverty Law Center, Anti-Defamation League, and even…