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.”

  • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Out of all the fairy-tales of religion, it’s my sincere hope that Karma and Reincarnation happen so that such people can be birthed into such circumstances they naively criticize to see for themselves. The racist to fill the shoes of a Syrian refugee, for instance.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        With respect you don’t have an understanding of the immigration rhetoric in America. If you did, you’d know that the conservatives are echo the exact same arguments you’re making here.

        Yes, broken people subject to war, poverty, and lack of education do tend to as a group be less stable. We all know that. That’s the toll of regional instability and a price the world must pay to the piper.

        The vast, vast majority assimilate quite effectively.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        the immigrants in USA actually do less crime than the americans themselves, were in Norway they do more than twice as much crime.

        Sounds like Norway needs reforms more than these people need to stop coming.

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            It’s just the way Islam works.

            Weird how the US has so many more Muslim immigrants than Norway does yet none of the problems.

            It’s also kind of bizarre that 3% of your population can break your entire system. Sounds like it was already broken and you just didn’t realize it.

            So much for your ancestors.

              • SCB@lemmy.world
                21·
                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@lemmy.world
                    22·
                    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.