• GOP activist who donated to Ron DeSantis called Obama a "Fucking Muslim N*****"
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/ron-desantis-florida-racial-issues-830726 MIAMI — A Republican activist who donated more than $20,000 to Ron DeSantis and lined up a speech for him at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club called President Obama a “F---- MUSLIM N----” on Twitter recently, in addition to other inflammatory remarks. Steven M. Alembik told POLITICO Wednesday he wrote the Obama tweet in anger, that he’s “absolutely not” a racist and that he understood that DeSantis’s campaign for governor would need to distance himself from the comments — which the campaign promptly did. “We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: we adamantly denounce this sort of disgusting rhetoric,” DeSantis campaign spokesman Stephen Lawson said in a written statement. The controversy comes after DeSantis sent his campaign into a tailspin the day after the Aug. 28 primary by using the awkward phrase “monkey this up” in describing how the economy could falter under the plans of his opponent, Andrew Gillum, the Florida Democratic Party’s first African-American nominee for governor. Alembik, a self-employed data and email services provider in Boca Raton who has had some Republican campaign clients, said it was unfair to call DeSantis a racist. Alembik, who has contributed a total of $22,920 over the years to DeSantis, said there was a double standard for white people when it came to using the N-word. “So somebody like Chris Rock can get up onstage and use the word and there’s no problem? But some white guy says it and he’s a racist? Really?” the 67-year-old Alembik said, noting that what’s considered racially charged language now wasn’t racist when he was a kid. “I grew up in New York in the ‘50s. We were the k----. They were the n------. They were the goyim. And those were the s----.” On Sept. 8, Alembik acknowledges, he used the full N-word in anger in responding to a tweet from the Republican National Committee that criticized Obama for saying that “over the past few decades, the politics of division and resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party.” “Without a hint of irony, Obama smears President Trump’s 63 million Republican voters as divisive & resentful,” the RNC wrote, prompting Alembik to quote the tweet and write in all capital letters: “F--- THE MUSLIM N-----.” Initially, Alembik said he didn’t believe he wrote that but then, after reviewing the tweet, said that “when I write anything inflammatory, it’s because I’m seriously pissed off. I’m an e motional human being. Do I have a filter on what I say? In public, yes. Would I use that word in public? No. This is Twitter.” Alembik deleted the tweet after speaking with POLITICO. Asked about the tweet, Alembik said he was riffing off of a comedic act from Lewis Black and that there was no racial intent. Alembik has also in the past drawn contrasts between the higher proportion of Jewish Nobel Prize winners compared to Muslims. When asked if the comments would appear anti- Muslim, he said, “Of course they would. But it’s not meant to be. These are just the statistics and the facts ... I’m not anti-Muslim. I’m anti-people-trying-to-kill me.” Originally, the gala was supposed to be held at a nearby resort. But Alembik switched to Mar-a-Lago amid a wave of event cancellations there in August 2017 after the president said there were “very fine people” at the protests in Charlottesville that included violent white supremacists, one of whom killed a woman. “I’d like to come here and show our support for the president of the United States,” Alembik, while speaking at the gala, said he told the event booker at Mar-a-Lago. Alembik said he was able to get DeSantis to attend the event because they’ve known each other for years. “I told him the next time I see him I’m going to charge him because I’ve got more pictures with him than I have of my kids,” Alembik joked.
And people still say the monkey comment wasn't a dog whistle?
"I grew up in New York in the ‘50s. We were the k----. They were the n------. They were the goyim. And those were the s----.” Okay but where were you during the last 70 years where we realized that shit is unacceptable?
why did the censor the others but not goyim lmao
Typical racist rhetoric. They lie and say “I didn’t mean it! It was a mistake/I was emotional/on Ambien!” or “Oh, I’m not racist, I’m just *something to justify racism*” or “Why do they get to say the n-word, but we can’t?!” or “I’m a *racial slur*, can’t I call them *racial slur*?” This is honestly disgusting and I wish people like him could just fade into obscurity, shrivel up, and die somewhere far away from civilized society.
https://youtu.be/YWWdk-GVZV8 Love his defense "we were all some ---- back in the day so I keep calling people that when I'm angry" ya that's racism.
So should we be surprised or...? “I grew up in New York in the ‘50s. We were the k----. They were the n------. They were the goyim. And those were the s----.” I get what the first two are supposed to be but what's the last one?
Spics, I think.
Its kikes.
I'm pretty sure it's kikes judging by the later goyim comment.
Why do they call it a controversy in the title doesn't that imply that there are two sides?
I can't wait for some politician to say "I'm not racist, but blacks are inferior."
Do I have a filter on what I say? In public, yes. Would I use that word in public? No. This is Twitter. Twitter is more fucking public than being broadcast live on a state news channel, you racist lump of dogshit.
"What do you mean people can hear my megaphone?"
Fucking hell he's literally admitting to the fact that he lives stuck in the past. Do I have a filter on what I say? In public, yes. Would I use that word in public? No. This is Twitter. Holy shit Twitter is a public platform you fucking dip, jsut because you're doing a Twitter post from your room completely alone does not make it a private platform.
As easily as a tweet is archived, you'd think he'd realize he's basically "stating for the record" that he's fucking racist.
It's not just him. When Rosanne Barr got in trouble for her tweet I saw a lot of presumably intelligent defenders try to make the distinction of public statements vs something posted on Twitter. Some people do genuinely believe you shouldn't be held accountable for anything you say on social media because you didn't really "say" it out loud.
I'm actually glad so many extremist candidates are running and winning primaries. It'll cause moderate Republicans to vote Dem for a change. And if they can't bring themselves to do that, they simply won't come out to vote. Meanwhile, Democrat voters, watching the country fall to fascism, will be galvanized. At least, that's how it should work. Much depends on the Democrat nominees running smart campaigns and not doing what Clinton did. They need to try extra hard to reach across the aisle and seduce Republican voters.
Well, assuming the Republican voters do not vote Republican anyways out of spite, I'm pretty sure some will do that. Also, aren't dog whistles suppose to be invisible for those not in the know? This shit gets found out so quickly it's beyond laughable.
This wasn't a dog whistle, it was a full on bullhorn tirade in public. Dog whistles have an element of deception. There's no cryptoracism here, it's in plain sight.
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