Thursday, November 03, 2016

Is It Fair to Describe James O'Keefe as Racist? Let's See If I Can't Throw Some Light on That. (Part 1 of a series, ONE HOPES?)


NJO: Shambolic work in progress. Things I want to look at in this series:
  • His ongoing working relationship with the bigot Laura Loomer, and why that person can accurately be called a bigot.
  • His ongoing working relationship with the bigot Gavin McInnes, and why that person can accurately be called a bigot.
  • His past working relationship with the bigot Ben Wetmore, and why that person can accurately be called a bigot.
  • His ongoing working relationship with Christian Hartsock, and why that person has at the least a troubling attitude towards black people. 
  • Update 11/11/2016: His ongoing working relationship with, and willingness to humor, the birther Alex Jones.
  • His attendance of a racist conference in 2006 and his speaking at what was arguably another racist conference in 2011.
  • But, hang on, what about all the black/Latino/otherwise non-Caucasian people he's worked with?
  • His tendency in the past to talk about (or blog about) ethnicity.
  • Certain editorial decisions he made while the editor of student newspaper The Centurion.
  • His recurring dismissive attitude towards the points of view of certain people of color (e.g. Maya Angelou; the uni administrator in his Lucky Charms video; Black Lives Matter) and other minorities.
  • His support of candidate Donald Trump for President of the United States in 2016.

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