Author claiming Obama intends to turn urban gangs into 'own Brownshirts' named UNC-TV Trustee.

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Orson Scott Card has been named to the UNC-TV Board of Trustees by NC Senate Leader Phil Berger. In a May 2013 newspaper column, Card compared President Obama to Hitler and Stalin. "Obama is, by character and preference, a dictator. He hates the very idea of compromise; he demonizes his critics and despises even his own toadies in the liberal press," Card wrote. He also claimed that President Obama intended to turn urban gangs into his "own Brownshirts" saying, ""Like Hitler, he needs a powerful domestic army to terrify any opposition that might arise. In other words, Obama will put a thin veneer of training and military structure on urban gangs, and send them out to channel their violence against Obama's enemies."


More from WRAL:
http://www.wral.com/controversial-author-named-to-unc-tv-trustees/12866613/

[shenmue]

1. What a moron

I can't believe some people.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. What an absolute fuckstain.

What's with these people?

[KamaAina]

3. His homophobia rises to the level of treason

Srsly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/07/orson-scott-card-gay-protest_n_3558189.html

In 2009, Card joined the board of directors at the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a group which has actively opposed same-sex marriage. The Hollywood Reporter also cites a 2009 Mormon Times opinion piece penned by Card, in which he argued, “Marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down."

[TeamPooka]

4. Orson Scott Card is a hack writer. nt

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Don't forget to boycott the living fuck out of Card's upcoming film of Ender's Game

This atavistic hate monger is a notorious homophobe. Uber right winger. Making his film tank should be a shared objective of thinking people everywhere.

[blm]

10. I concur

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[xfundy]

6. It fits the current meme among Repigs

"There really is a black mob violence epidemic" is currently playing on Wanker Nut Daily.

No link from me, but here's the top graf and a sample of the responses from Gentle Christians™ there.

I got a thoughtful email from a devoted WND visitor recently who describes herself as a black, Christian conservative. (<Farah)

“I simply wanted to email you because I am SO disturbed by your website constantly running stories about black-on-white violence,” wrote Bonnie. “Why? Please help me understand WHY? If you did both sides, I would understand you are making a statement about our culture. Please do not say that you are simply reporting a truth – there is a one-sided purpose here. It seems to me that you are intentionally planting seeds of racial resentment within your conservative and predominately Christian readership. This truly grieves me as a Christian since you offer so many good resources otherwise. I just don’t understand how you reconcile your Christian faith with, what seems to be, your one-sided racial bias.”

Now, some Christian Love™ in response (bolding is mine):

FauxScienceSlayer • 21 hours ago
I HATE MYSELF....my defective baby momma and my degenerate baby daddy did not give me any usable social skills....

Therefore....i will HATE WHITIE....attack a white [or brown, or yellow] man....then society will punish me....then i will be absolved....because I AM A VICTIM....

This is a self reinforcing psychosis....amplified by the race baiters....a wedge issue, kept honed by the powerful, for political potential....humans are better than this....we need a leadership change in the SHADOW GOVERNMENT that reflects our better potential.

dean53 • 21 hours ago ?
Too bad for Bonnie. For the past 60 years White America has bent over backwards for Black America. We've gotten ZERO thanks for it, as if everything we've done is far less than what was owed. So-called "good" "Christian" blacks almost ALWAYS side with their race first, no matter what. All other allegiances are secondary. Very, very, very few blacks can ever be trusted to defy Black Leadership and take a stand with whites against fellow blacks. Blacks just don't have the guts to risk antagonizing their own community.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. We Need A Special Award For This Sort Of Author

IMO, we need a special award for politics and literature for this sort of wingnut literati. How about the Ezra Pound Memorial Award For Politics And Literature?



Mr. Card seems to be in the lead for the 2013 award.

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For younger DU'ers, Ezra Pound was a very talented American poet who fell in love with Italian Fascism, wrote anti-Roosevelt screeds and made pro-Fascist broadcasts during World War II.

[Scuba]

8. The State of North Carolina has gone completely off it's rocker.

This is what happens when nut jobs are elected.

[Hissyspit]

9. "Controversial author"

There is no controversy. He's an asshole who doesn't know what he's talking about. Everyone knows that. There is no controversy about it.

[surrealAmerican]

11. He is, indeed, an author of fiction.

He really shouldn't name his invented characters after real people.