When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online...

When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online.

Black gay Republican podcaster Rob Smith has claimed that “white supremacist” members of his political party called him “fa**ot” and the n-word during his Sunday night attendance of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona. Though Smith posted a video of his brief interaction with the aggressors, commenters on X (formerly Twitter) noted that the video didn’t feature the n-word and mocked Smith his membership in an anti-gay political party.

“Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don’t like gays or blacks in the Republican Party,” Smith wrote in a December 18 post on X. “They shouted ‘nr’ and ‘ft’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”

    • @SCB
      1•11 months ago

      Imagine every major US city having 10% muslims.

      It’s weird that you think this would scare me. Like do you not get that? That’s the central conceit here - we fundamentally disagree on the idea “Muslims are scary”

      Besides, the system worked perfectly fine for norwegians

      Back in topic, in your own words, your system is a failure to what I see as basic human rights, so no, it didn’t work perfectly.

      If your culture cannot survive immigrants, your culture has no value. That’s what a “war of ideas” is. That’s why Iran and North Korea don’t allow immigrants.

      For clarity, I have said and will say again this exact same thing to every American who disagrees too. If some aspect of “being American” cannot survive immigration, then it doesn’t deserve to exist.

        • @SCB
          0•11 months ago

          See this “othering” of 2 billion or so people is what I meant when I said that we have substantial character differences.