Rejecting words and actions which perpetrate, support or encourage white supremacists

Ricky Vaughn was able to remain anonymous ― until this week.

On Monday, white nationalist Republican candidate Paul Nehlen, who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin, grew upset about criticism directed at him ― and seemingly not disavowed by Ricky Vaughn ― as the alt-right fragments under the weight of infighting, lawsuits and anti-fascist opposition. Two main camps have emerged: the real-world extremists who want to continue holding rallies and mixing it up in the streets, and the “optics cucks” who think the best approach to the mainstream is to keep pushing alt-right ideas through better propaganda. Ricky Vaughn is in the latter camp. And he hasn’t been shy about it.

“I’m dividing the movement between effective people and dumb losers,” he wrote on Gab, a social media platform overrun by white supremacists.

Amid all this infighting, an angry Nehlen dropped Ricky Vaughn’s real name:

Douglass Mackey.

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wakephan09 said:

What does "working with" entail? Like were Google and Facebook aware they were perpetuating these anti-muslim ads?

ETA: apologies, I'm going all millennial and not reading the article right now. The answer is probably in there.

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Members of Morrow’s church community have pushed back on the idea that Morrow built the bombs in his bedroom and kitchen, for which investigators found handwritten instructions.


“I’d love to defend Ben because he has been described as a bomb maker and he’s not a bomb maker,” Rev. Jerry Marsden, the pastor who conducted Morrow’s funeral told the Associated Press. “He wasn’t a recluse as some have said he is. He was far from that.”


In an obituary, Morrow’s family described him as a religious man, who grew up homeschooled and later studied pre-pharmacy, math, and chemistry at Pensacola Christian College in Florida. The search warrant revealed Morrow had a Bible among his white supremacist literature and bomb-making material.

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PhDeac said:

Nothing to worry about guys. The man with white supremacist literature in his home and materials used to make bombs who died while making bombs was really a good dude.

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The militia members talked about attacks on President Barack Obama and members of Congress, a federal agent recounted in court. They discussed burning down churches whose members helped refugees settle in western Kansas. They mulled killing landlords who rented to Muslims.

In the end, prosecutors say, the three men decided to bomb a complex of low-slung apartments on West Mary Street in Garden City, Kan., a place where Somali immigrants sleep and pray between shifts at a nearby meatpacking plant on the state’s sparsely populated southwestern plains.

“If you have anything to do with the sellout of this country,” warned a handwritten manifesto that prosecutors say the men composed, “your homes, your businesses, your families are at risk.” Singled out for criticism: government officials, the news media and property owners who lease to refugees or illegal immigrants.

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Kansans voted overwhelmingly for Donald J. Trump, and defense lawyers sought to pick a jury from counties where high percentages of people voted for him. The lawyers said the case was “uniquely political” and that they wanted a pool with more rural, conservative jurors.

The defendants chose not to testify during the trial, but sat quietly in sport coats, ties and leg shackles as prosecutors showed the mostly white jury the rambling handwritten manifesto. The document contained alarming messages, but also listed grievances that sounded common, and well within the conservative mainstream: Border security was too weak, it said. Jobs had moved overseas. The Obama administration had overreached.

At one point, Melody Brannon, a lawyer for Mr. Allen, even alluded to Mr. Trump’s campaign slogan, suggesting that the manifesto called for “coming together as a nation, making America great again.”

“All of those statements reflect the political talk in 2016,” Ms. Brannon, Kansas’ federal public defender, said of the manifesto. “There is nothing in that document that is outside the political talk going on.”

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avalon said:

Racist Terror Plot, or Just Idle Talk? Kansas Trial Hinges on the Answer





Apologies for the excessively long quote, but the fact that the defense is using "they talked like the President!" to defend wannabe terrorists is .... something.

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The government's case featured months of profanity-laced recordings in which militia members discussed plans and referred to the Somalis as "cockroaches."

Wright is captured in one recording saying he hoped an attack on the Somalis would "wake people up" and inspire others to take similar action against Muslims.

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DDA said:

Syracuse suspends frat for racist, anti-semitic and homophobic slurs caught on video:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ity-for-racist-anti-semitic-homophobic-video/

Nice work, guys.

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Witnesses told police that the suspect called the child a racial slur and then spit on him.
Then on Thursday, the victim's family confirmed the witnesses' original account of events.
A witness told KCTV5 he heard a customer using the N-word.
"He basically said get that little 'blank' up off the floor," the witness said.
The boy's family was at the restaurant celebrating a birthday and said the boy had wandered away from the group when the incident happened.

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