The Hateful 8: Meet the Biggest Bigots On the Ballot in 2018

[GMDino]

I've seen an uptick in people on the board concerned about racism in this country (from all sides).  Maybe the article will help people make informed choices if they are in the areas covered.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republican-holocaust-deniers-697379/

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Joe Arpaio, Republican
U.S. Senate – Arizona

The former Maricopa County Sheriff first rose to prominence in 2005 for instructing his officers to demand proof of citizenship from any person suspected of being undocumented. He stubbornly stuck to the policy even after courts ruled it constituted racial profiling. He was convicted of contempt of court in 2017, but pardoned by President Trump before he was even sentenced, paving the way for the once-vocal birther’s bid for Senate.

John Fitzgerald, Republican
U.S. House – California’s 11th District

A Holocaust-denier who believes 9/11 was a Jewish-orchestrated conspiracy, Fitzgerald netted more than 36,000 votes in his California district’s June primary – enough to earn him a slot on the ballot in November. Since then, he’s been making media rounds, promoting his campaign on neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic podcasts where he’s reiterated his promise to expose “the truth about the Holocaust and how it’s an absolute fabricated lie.”

Seth Grossman, Republican
U.S. House – New Jersey’s 2nd District

The former city councilman and county freeholder from Atlantic City has written that gay men should have been quarantined in the ‘80s and called Islam “a cancer.” On Facebook, he’s shared posts by Jihad Watch’s Robert Spencer, anti-Islam agitator Pamela Geller, alt-right posterboy Milo Yiannopoulos as well as racist memes, including one that suggested Arabs, like Obama, want to “move to your country, rape our women, bomb your buses, riot in your streets, and demand that you accept [their] religion.”

Arthur Jones, Republican
U.S. House – Illinois’ 3rd District

A former member of the American Nazi party, Jones lost seven bids for Congress before finally securing the GOP nomination this year at the age of 70 to the chagrin of the state’s Republican party, which paid for robocalls warning voters to “stop Illinois Nazis.” Twenty-thousand Republicans nonetheless pulled the lever for Jones, whose campaign website calls the Holocaust was “a greatly overblown nonevent.”

Steve King, Republican
U.S. House – Iowa’s 4th District (Incumbent)

King – considered a shoe-in for an eighth term this November – has approvingly retweeted prominent bigots like Geert Wilders, Mark Collett and Viktor Orbán, proudly displayed a Confederate flag on his desk for years, once said white people contributed more to civilization than any other “subgroup” in history, and has casually characterized immigrants having “calves the size of cantaloupes” from hauling drugs across the desert.

Paul Nehlen, Republican
U.S. House – Wisconsin’s 1st District

The self-described “pro-White” congressional candidate has palled around with ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke and signal-boosted Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin. He’s been permanently suspended by both Twitter (for making a racist joke about Meghan Markle) and the alt-right’s favorite social network, Gab (for doxxing a right-wing troll). His views are so toxic that he’s not only been condemned by the state GOP and Paul Ryan, whose seat he’s seeking, but even on the alt-right platform of Breitbart, which once championed his candidacy, too.

Corey Stewart, Republican
U.S. Senate – Virginia

At the height of the debate over Confederate monuments last year, Minnesota-born Stewart declared on Twitter, “Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don’t matter.” More recently, he’s asserted his disbelief “that the Civil War was ultimately fought over the issue of slavery.”

Russell Walker, Republican
U.S. House – North Carolina’s 48th District

Walker, who has declared “God is a racist and a white supremacist” and all Jewish people “descend from Satan,” won the Republican primary in May. Since then, he’s appeared on the white supremacist Stormfront Action podcast where he was scolded by the show’s host for using the n-word to describe voters in his district. Walker will face an African American minister in November general election.

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Nathan Larson, Independent
U.S. House – Virginia’s 10th District

The failed Libertarian, who created a series of websites for likeminded pedophiles and involuntary celibates, told HuffPost there was “a grain of truth” to his posts about father-daughter incest and spousal rape. His campaign manifesto envisioned a country where a “benevolent white supremacy” ruled, incest and child pornography were legal, the Violence Against Women Act was repealed and replaced by “a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands.” Larson got less than two percent of the vote in the primary, but he’ll have a second shot when he appears on the general election ballot in November.

Patrick Little, Republican
U.S. Senate – California

Little campaigned for the chance to challenge Sen. Dianne Feinstein under the slogan “Liberate the US from the Jewish Oligarchy.” His platform included a promise to have the U.S. formally declare the Holocaust “a Jewish war atrocity propaganda hoax that never happened.”

Roy Moore, Republican
U.S. Senate – Alabama

As chief justice of Alabama’s Supreme Court, Moore deflected criticism of his racist, anti-gay and transphobic views for years. His Senate bid was tanked, though, by multiple credible accusations of sexual misconduct with underage girls.

[Griever]

being racist has been made OK in todays america

[*michaelsean*]

I didn't vote for any of 'em.

[Benton]

(07-12-2018, 01:11 PM)Griever Wrote: being racist has been made OK in todays america

I'd disagree. There's just more attention now when people don't get the outcome they want.

And they often don't. Because there's nothing (generally) illegal about a lot of what we hear about racism in this country. I don't mean when cops do it or a business refuses to serve someone based on skin color. That's one thing. But when a d-bag is being a d-bag just because he doesn't like people of color? That's not necessarily illegal. But we still get to watch the Facebook video of it and the comments of how horrible people are. People were always that horrible, it just wasn't on social media.

[hollodero]

(07-12-2018, 01:51 PM)Benton Wrote: I'd disagree. There's just more attention now when people don't get the outcome they want.

And they often don't. Because there's nothing (generally) illegal about a lot of what we hear about racism in this country. I don't mean when cops do it or a business refuses to serve someone based on skin color. That's one thing. But when a d-bag is being a d-bag just because he doesn't like people of color? That's not necessarily illegal. But we still get to watch the Facebook video of it and the comments of how horrible people are. People were always that horrible, it just wasn't on social media.

I agree partly with that, but that's not the whole story. In many cases (admittedly these are experiences from my own country), there seems to be a very thin layer of "accepted" stances/behaviour that is easily peeled away the more racist voices can be heard. Hence, it is on the increase. More and more people drop the layer and figure that the feelings they used to be ashamed of are getting more acceptable.

I do think sites like Breitbart not only collect racists that were always horrible, it also creates additional racists that used to restrain from being horrible.

[Benton]

(07-12-2018, 01:55 PM)hollodero Wrote: I agree partly with that, but that's not the whole story. In many cases (admittedly these are experiences from my own country), there seems to be a very thin layer of "accepted" stances/behaviour that is easily peeled away the more racist voices can be heard. Hence, it is on the increase. More and more people drop the layer and figure that the feelings they used to be ashamed of are getting more acceptable.

I do think sites like Breitbart not only collect racists that were always horrible, it also creates additional racists that used to restrain from being horrible.

Then go home!



Just kidding. I think a lot of it here is — kind of what you touched on — accepted behavior rubbing up against beliefs. Social media, and alt media, have a lot to do with that. You can go some places in the south where it's acceptable to call people some names, but those people using the term would be shocked if you called them a racist. 

[*michaelsean*]

(07-12-2018, 01:55 PM)hollodero Wrote: I agree partly with that, but that's not the whole story. In many cases (admittedly these are experiences from my own country), there seems to be a very thin layer of "accepted" stances/behaviour that is easily peeled away the more racist voices can be heard. Hence, it is on the increase. More and more people drop the layer and figure that the feelings they used to be ashamed of are getting more acceptable.

I do think sites like Breitbart not only collect racists that were always horrible, it also creates additional racists that used to restrain from being horrible.

Who are you racist against in Austria?  People with green eyes?

[BmorePat87]

Corey Stewart has been trash for years. Watch 9500 Liberty. It's 80 minutes long but it's good. He tried to enact that racial profiling law (before AZ did) the VA burbs outside of DC in 2006-2007 based on the idea that their county was facing economic and criminal hardship from immigration (in reality the opposite was happening, crime was down and the economy was up). Those trends reversed when they enacted it and he was finally defeated by the community but managed to save face. Now he's running for the Senate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNiGwsZ5dkI

[hollodero]

(07-12-2018, 02:22 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Who are you racist against in Austria?  People with green eyes?

Yeah, those. Also former Yugoslavians, Turks, Muslims, black people. Yes we do have some black people.

Of course, when they don't have green eyes they're basically fine. But being a Turk AND looking at the world through these baboonvomit-colored abdomination of a visual organ really can get too much for many.

[Dill]

(07-12-2018, 01:55 PM)hollodero Wrote: I agree partly with that, but that's not the whole story. In many cases (admittedly these are experiences from my own country), there seems to be a very thin layer of "accepted" stances/behaviour that is easily peeled away the more racist voices can be heard. Hence, it is on the increase. More and more people drop the layer and figure that the feelings they used to be ashamed of are getting more acceptable.

I do think sites like Breitbart not only collect racists that were always horrible, it also creates additional racists that used to restrain from being horrible.

I think that's right. Internet forums and websites like Breitbart and the Washington Times create venues where people can not only let it all hang out, but also  where young people can learn that racism can be ok and even fun.

I am not sure all of it is "real" racism; some is people learning to collect a variety of grievances (not all faux) and to associate them with "libtards" and Hillary and people of color protected by something called "political correctness."

It does seem to me, though, that for the first time since 1968, the trend of publicly censoring racist rhetorical is somewhat reversing--at least it seems more people do feel permission to "go there" or get as close to the edge of acceptable as they can to "make liberals heads explode."  

Sometimes I suspect a game is being played--come as close as you can to racist rhetoric/behavior in hopes of getting someone to denounce you, then demanding an apology, or "proof," or accusing someone of playing the race card.

[BengalHawk62]

(07-12-2018, 02:26 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah, those. Also former Yugoslavians, Turks, Muslims, black people. Yes we do have some black people.

Of course, when they don't have green eyes they're basically fine. But being a Turk AND looking at the world through these baboonvomit-colored abdomination of a visual organ really can get too much for many.

What are you saying?  I have green eyes.  Green eyes matter! 

Without green eyes, the world would have never known the beauty and grace of Kathy Ireland.  The ferocious Gen. Patton. Nor the love of humanity from Kate Middleton or Lindsey Lohan. 

ok, those last ones I made up, but seriously.....Green eyes are cool.  way better than those feces colored brown eyes.

[hollodero]

(07-12-2018, 03:30 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: What are you saying?  I have green eyes.  Green eyes matter! 

Without green eyes, the world would have never known the beauty and grace of Kathy Ireland.  The ferocious Gen. Patton. Nor the love of humanity from Kate Middleton or Lindsey Lohan. 

ok, those last ones I made up, but seriously.....Green eyes are cool.  way better than those feces colored brown eyes.

Kathy Ireland had eyes?

Apart from that, all eyes matter. I didn't say I take issue with green ones. Green eyes, deformed limbs, harelips... I love everyone regardless of his imperfections.

Sadly, some are just not as tolerant and me. That's not my fault. You still shouldn't associate your traits with beautiful women to feel better. I don't attribute extraordinary intelligence with them either.

[hollodero]

(07-12-2018, 03:25 PM)Dill Wrote: Sometimes I suspect a game is being played--come as close as you can to racist rhetoric/behavior in hopes of getting someone to denounce you, then demanding an apology, or "proof," or accusing someone of playing the race card.

Oh I suspect the same. There are traps set up.
I have to say though that the same game is played on the left side too. Lure people in a debate where you can come out crying racist. One point - not the most important one, but still - is that the term got thrown out so arbitrary and loosely that the line began to blur. Is how I feel.

[*Nately120*]

(07-12-2018, 01:55 PM)hollodero Wrote: I do think sites like Breitbart not only collect racists that were always horrible, it also creates additional racists that used to restrain from being horrible.

Gee, you mean right-wing nuts might be heading for safe-spaces!? And for all people act like the liberals are the ones demanding political correctness, I've had no lack of people citing that it's impolite or incorrect to ask people to justify their reasons for their political or (particularly) their religious beliefs. Then a lot of right-wingers have the ace up their sleeve of "don't argue with me, I'm older than you and therefore I win this argument" and other delightful ways of saying "Stop, I'm getting upset."

I will say that the right-wingers tend to have better ways of hiding or justifying their need for safe-spaces and a cease-fire on their beliefs...but it's still there.