Showing posts with label !Is it fair to describe James O'Keefe as racist?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label !Is it fair to describe James O'Keefe as racist?. Show all posts

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.