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.”

https://lemmy.world/post/9812121

  • @roofuskit
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    2611 months ago

    Oh no, I sided with bigots and they bigoted me!

  • @[email protected]
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    2311 months ago

    I don’t even feel bad anymore for these morons. If after all this time you still support the Reich wing, especially as a gay minority then I don’t know what they expected.

  • @[email protected]
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    1611 months ago

    “But I’m the good one!” The leopard cares not, the leopard cares only to feast on the face.

  • @morphballganon
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    1211 months ago

    Don’t those ultra-manly republicans know that confronting a gay guy is totes gay though

  • @Clent
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    1111 months ago

    Never backing down is part of the ethos of the right so he certainly fits on that part. He probably thinks his gay part attributes are god testing him.

  • @PedroMaldonado
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    811 months ago

    DUDE! how could possibly have been surprised?

  • @[email protected]
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    711 months ago

    That’s so weird! “Conservatives” are so very educated, tolerant, and forward-thinking…

  • @wabafee
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    611 months ago

    Heavy dose of stockholm syndrome.