Posted on 01/05/2024 1:46:06 PM PST by libh8er
BETTENDORF, Iowa — At a campaign event this week, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy touted an endorsement by a disgraced former congressman who lost his election after defending white nationalism. He refused to directly condemn white supremacy. And he said he didn’t recognize the name of Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed nine people at a historically Black church in South Carolina.
“Was there a point in our prior national history where there have been vicious forms of anti-Black or anti-Brown discrimination in this country, after the Civil War and otherwise? Yes. But you’re looking in the rearview mirror,” said Ramaswamy, while making false incendiary claims that white supremacy was a fabricated threat as he stood in front of a banner that said “TRUTH.” An entrepreneur and first-time candidate who built some momentum last year but has since faded sharply in polls of the Republican race, Ramaswamy has increasingly embraced extreme ideas, far-right individuals and causes, and debunked conspiracy theories. Barnstorming this state in the final stretch before the Iowa caucuses, some Republican strategists see his approach as a desperate ploy to garner attention as a provocateur. It’s one that is also dangerous, some experts warned, as data shows white extremist violence and threats have risen in recent years.
“While most people wouldn’t trust information coming from sources like Alex Jones or Steve King, they are more likely to trust a person like Ramaswamy who is running for the Republican Party nomination,” Jennifer Mercieca, a professor at Texas A&M University who researches democracy and rhetoric, wrote in an email. “This allows Ramaswamy to ‘launder’ narratives from the extreme rightwing fringe into the mainstream of American political discourse, which is how the extreme-right has taken over the Republican Party.”
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480 out of 180,000,000
Roof may not be special but someone is here and it’s not me.
It’s a no lose situation. We aren’t supposed to remember Roof was a scumbag regardless of all else.....because blacks kill 480 white people a year.
“Far right extremist views” = refusal to worship libtardism
“ Not sure how any person in the United States would have no knowledge of Dylann Roof.”
I don’t keep the names of mass murderers in my memory .
Competing with the name “Lee”...
Smug socialist c-nt
Okay. Let’s say that the Replacement Theory has been debunked.
Does it matter if it is a conspiracy or not if the effect is the same, that American citizens and taxpayers are quickly being inundated with non-taxpaying and welfare collecting illegal aliens.
Our social safety net will soon collapse under the weight of the rapidly expanding pool of non-citizen welfare recipients.
The available living space for these illegals has already been exhausted and the current usurper in chief is doing nothing about it.
Conspiracy or not the effect is the same.
With my first wife, with our first baby, we waited until he was born to give him his name. She asked, “How about Dylan?” “I said, no F’ing way am I going name a kid Dylan.”
We ended up with her second option for a name and he turned out quite well.
“I said, no F’ing way am I going name a kid Dylan.”
LOL! Smart. (But I hope his middle name isn’t Wayne. That could be a problem.)
Vivek Ramaswamy predicted this!'.I'm not — I'm not going to recite some catechism for you,” Ramaswamy told her. "I'm against vicious racial discrimination in this country. So I'm not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism which absolutely fits the test." "I'm not going to bend the knee to your religion. I'm sorry, I'm not asking you to bend the knee to mine, and I'm not going to bend the knee to yours. But do I condemn vicious racial discrimination? Yes, I do. Am I going to play your silly game of ‘Gotcha'? No, I'm not. And frankly, this is why people have lost trust [in the media]." Ramaswamy continued, "And I know you’re going to go print the headline tomorrow. I already know this; we already know how your game works. 'Vivek Ramaswamy Refuses to Condemn Racism,' because you asked a stupid question. The reality is, I condemn vicious racial discrimination in this country, but the kind of vicious and systematic racism we see today is discrimination on the basis of race in a very different direction."
Would not know him if he walked up and slapped me.
It is one of those, the name is vaguely familiar, sort of things.
Have you noticed that no one seems to know the backstory on Dylann Roof as in: was he or a member of his family victimized by blacks and nothing was done about it or worse, he and/or they were told that they deserved it because they were white oppressors and therefore deserved it?
And Nikkei Haley the governor didn’t blame him, she blamed the confederate flag.
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