🧩 BND Motif Index · M215
Targeting minorities
A government or group singles out a minority, by law, policy, slur or harassment, for harsh treatment, and the targeting itself becomes the story.
📜 Plots🗂️ Who rules🗂️ Coercion and Intimidation🗂️ Abuse of power
- 20claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 3center shows it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 7claims retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Punching down
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Blame the victim 🧩 Driven off the land 🧩 Predator in the bathroom 🧩 Transvestigation
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 5
🎙️ Hacks on Tap 🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) 🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ Today in Focus (Guardian)
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 France experiences riots and unrest following fuel price protests 2026-10-17 to 2026-10-22
- 📰 Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-07
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Immigrant communities feel a paralyzing fear of government officials hunting them down.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room - 2026-10-23 “Republicans are redrawing congressional maps to carve up Black districts and gain a conservative advantage.”
🎙️ The Daily (NYT) - 2026-10-23 “A Bolsonaro presidency would cause absolute disaster for indigenous peoples across the Amazon.”
🎙️ Today in Focus (Guardian) - 2026-10-22 “Benjamin Netanyahu uses racism to undermine the legitimacy of Arab parties.”
🎙️ Breaking Points 🎙️ BBC Global News Podcast - 2026-10-21 “Ken Paxton's team escorted a Black Republican woman from an event because they mistook her for a paid agitator.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-21 “Islamophobic fear-mongering is being used against Abdul El-Sayed.”
🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) - 2026-10-21 “The Republican campaign against El-Sayed relies on Islamophobia and his family's alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
🎙️ Hacks on Tap - 2026-10-20 “The UK government and NHS are causing the deaths of trans people through transphobic policies and medical neglect.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “A Black MAGA influencer was kicked out of a Ken Paxton rally.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-19 “J.K. Rowling is a bigoted person whose actions and views endanger trans people.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-19 “French rioters targeted a synagogue in Paris and Jewish-owned businesses in Marseille while sparing Muslim ones.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-16 “The Israeli Embassy has issued a warning that a website called 'lionnights' is being operated by hostile entities to identify and harm Jewish and Israeli families living abroad.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-14 “Anti-trans people are denying necessary healthcare and harassing transmasculine lesbians out of their identities.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “New York Democrats are fining unvaccinated Amish children $2,000 per day.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-09 “Donald Trump used a slur to attack Dr. Annie Andrews and posted videos to fear-monger against transgender people.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-08 “The claim that trans women and girls are being targeted with slurs and dehumanizing rhetoric by Republicans, particularly through the use of transphobic language and political attacks.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-07 “Arguments about whether trans people are dangerous and violent or are often falsely accused of crimes, and they are vilified and targeted by society and institutions.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Florida's government is targeting Canadians through a property tax scheme that will drive them out of the state and harm its economy.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-02 “Texas Muslims are ordering businesses to remove haram products within 30 days.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-09-26 “Voters believe Vivek is a target of anti-immigrant sentiment despite being a U.S. citizen.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M215 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works