Nope. Republicans have been parroting that line for decades. It’s never been true. It is true that the national Republican Party has very deliberately and cynically courted the votes of white supremacists ever since Nixon, so they’ve brought the association on themselves, but certainly there are some principled…

This line of argument is familiar - I’ve been hearing “calling people Nazis turns them into Nazis!” from the Gamergate/alt-right crowd for a while now.

Apparently I didn’t know much about Ohio! (I’ve never been there, so I have an excuse at least.)

Wonder if Sherrod Brown’s name ever helped clue him in to racism. I remember reading of a white guy named Washington who said he’d always been aware of racial prejudice because it was so noticeable how often he’d get rejected with paper applications (rent, jobs etc) but then get a very different response when he…

I am melanin-deficient myself, but I have to admit that before I saw pictures of this man on the internet this weekend, I had always assumed he was black. Mind blown.

Thanks. I am always on the lookout for new racist jargon ... the internet has made some of them real creative in hiding the racial slurs & Nazi bullshit.

Is 3-11 a commonly used thing? Not doubting he’s a full-blown racist asshole, just hadn’t heard that particular one before.

Do we know that the “holdouts” were refusing to convict? Might be 11 who wanted an acquittal and one person saying “fuck no.”

Tbh I don’t think a tribal court would have much patience for his bullshit either.

“Serggin cuff”?? Gosh. What could that POSSIBLY mean?

Wait, so the Proud Boys are just the formal incarnation of the #nofap brigade from 4chan?

It’s such a good show, but just be prepared that horrible shit happens and people die. Kinda like Game of Thrones that way.

Wow. That was incredible.

Just goes to show how deep the racism goes. It’s got levels upon levels.

He was an Oath Keeper originally, but they kicked him out over his insistence that black people have rights too:

I’d be totally unsurprised if these guys got arrested *because* of The Root’s profiles (because the white supremacists trolls who lurk here used it to ID them and agitate for their arrest).

Not me, but I am ... not conventionally attractive. It happened to me a few times in adolescence.

Trust me, survival is at the TOP of the International Jewish Agenda.

Now, now, it’s true that we control the world through international bankers, invented communism, and faked the Holocaust, but other races have other specialties. Remember that black people are basically superheroes who don’t feel pain, are afraid of nothing, are irresistibly sexy, and threaten the lives and morals of…

Dude. There are two people right here in my office who would be capable of writing almost every sentence in it. One of them is prone to announcing, as absolute fact, whatever is implied by some hysteria-prone Breitbart headline she recently skimmed (“OBAMA JUST DECLARED MARTIAL LAW, GUYS!!!”).