Young Republicans "immigration forum" devolves into white supremacist shit-show!

[bullwinkle428]

Quad-City residents are distancing themselves from an incendiary far-right activist who delivered racist remarks Monday at a forum hosted by the Scott County Teenage Republicans.

Nick Fuentes ("Unite the Right"/Charlottesville star), a far-right provocateur from Chicagoland known for espousing racist and anti-Semitic views, spoke for about 20 minutes at the end of the Quad Cities Immigration Forum, hosted at the Pleasant View Baptist Church in Bettendorf.

Fuentes told the crowd about the “drastic consequences” of immigration from non-European, non-white countries. He said that driving around majority non-white neighborhoods of cities like Chicago shows how racial and ethnic diversification is “not good.”

Now, others who spoke at the forum are distancing themselves from Fuentes, who has become a darling of the far-right.

“I had no idea who Fuentes was up until a few minutes ago," tweeted Bobby Schilling, former congressman and Republican candidate for Iowa’s second congressional district, who spoke before Fuentes took the stage. "His rhetoric is disgusting and I want in no way to be associated with him. His racist anti-Semitic statements do not reflect my own views. I proudly support Israel and I love people of all colors and ethnic backgrounds.”

https://qconline.com/news/local/quad-citians-distance-themselves-from-far-right-speaker-at-bettendorf/article_1b78f5e4-42fa-5eab-970f-e49487a0ae31.html

This asshole Bobby Schilling actually attempted to blame Antifa for sending "far-right actors" into Republican and Conservative events in an effort to smear them. Then it was revealed that Schilling's staffer was the one that contacted Fuentes to bring him in as part of the program!

[Garrett78]

1. Schilling and the like are full of shit.

The only difference between Fuentes and the likes of Schilling is that Fuentes is more transparent with his reasons for being anti-immigrant.

It's like the Never Trumpers who had no problem with decades of dog whistling before Trump replaced the dog whistle with a bullhorn.

[IADEMO2004]

2. Shit-show seems a bit too genteel. What the fuck Iowa

[Wounded Bear]

3. "I never knew him!" is the new Trumpista defense...

[Zambero]

17. Then there was the infamous David Duke denial

Some years ago.
Never heard of this Duke guy! White supremacy? That's anew one on me (wink-wink).
With Trump and minions, UNplausibel deniability goes back a ways.

[AJT]

4. My ex is from East Moline, on the Illinois side of the Quad Cities, it is a largely Hispanic

area that was known for having a large number of households losing at least one member during WWII military service. What a despicable bunch of a-holes republicans are.

[magicarpet]

5. Racism and hatred on full display,...

Fascist rejoice their messiah Fuhrer trDump.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. No one could have predicted ... nt

[CurtEastPoint]

7. How does someone like "Fuentes" (hmmm...Hispanic?) get to be so hateful at age 21?

[treestar]

9. He's like a Ben Carson/Clarence Thomas

So the Deplorable can say: Look, someone with a Hispanic name is against immigrants, so that proves that our opposition is not racist.

[Iggo]

8. Devolves or unmasks?

Young Republicans have always been white supremacists.

[Hoyt]

10. For decades I've thought of "young republicans" as a breeding ground for white wing racists.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. You are so right.

My experience with the local Campus YGOP ers in the 1960 time frame was the same. My goodness,we are talking some sixty years latter about a similiar topic. As someone who was a YDEM on Campus,one got to know each and everyone of the competition so to speak. Four or five of the YGOP are now members of the Wisconsin State Legislature,and they are the so called Leadership. Assholes one and all.

[Hoyt]

16. Exactly. When young folks don't even attempt to hide their Republican leanings,

you just know they are proud racists and bigots.

[Wellstone ruled]

27. So true.

The a fore mentioned are racist to the core. Others whom were members of the mentioned Club are today the Billionaire Club of Wisconsin. And,their Spawn profess the same ideals. Nothing more dangerous than a Rich Kid professing the same ideals of their parents racism.

[CaptYossarian]

18. Young Republicans are America's answer to the Hitler Youth. Remember the

frat houses in Animal House? Nailed it with Niedermeyer and Greg Marmalard--and probably the rubber glove too.

Fuentes mentions the non-white neighborhoods in major cities and blaming the victims. Hasn't he heard of Institutional Racism? It's the government bureaus that refuse to fund these areas and their schools, further keeping the underprivileged down. There is no level playing field. That would take Socialism (shhhhh-damn keyboard won't whisper).

Minorities themselves aren't any more stupid or lazy than whites. The past 3 presidents have proven that.

[Hoyt]

20. Hitler Youth is what I think of. Don't get me started on fraternities. Where I went, most of the

houses had giant confederate flags flying, often on the big plantation style porch.

[CaptYossarian]

24. Yep. Right out in the open--just like today when they march without hoods.

They're empowered by the orange goon.

I'd prefer the hoods and sheets come back. They might be flammable.

[struggle4progress]

11. "Come! Deny the refugees! Burn your cross. And follow Trump, our Chosen One!"

[roamer65]

13. Figures.... in a Baptist church.

Religion is poison and should be dealt with accordingly.

[wnylib]

14. Doesn't the website have a way to

delete the racist messages and block racist posters?

[Ace Rothstein]

15. Fuentes is such a dork.

[Initech]

22. He's that guy in Office Space who thinks he gets a merit badge for wearing 37 pieces of flair.

But secretly everyone knows that he's a douchebag.

[SMC22307]

19. "Charlottesville star"? That little prick Fuentes must be basking in that glory.

He shouldn't be given the satisfaction.

[Initech]

21. *Pretends to be shocked*

I'm bookmarking this one next time my conservative friends and relatives have the nerve to say that liberals are unhinged lunatics.

[JDC]

23. Am I the only one that notices the leaders of these groups

Are not particularly "white" in the "classic WASP sense?" The Portland Proud Boys guy is rather dark skinned, this guy's name is Fuentes; Steven Miller is 1 degree of Jewish immigrant decent. The "integrity" of these groups and their "beliefs" is flawed in every way. They can't even get the white supremacy right.
Jesus H. disgusting people abound.

[Recursion]

26. I just came here to say that

Kevin Williamson, though a conservative dickhead, really lampooned this brilliantly in his piece on how stupid white nationalists are:

A Charlottesville protester named Nicholas J. Fuentes, raging against the “rootless transnational elite,” vows: “You will not replace us.” I have reviewed the passenger manifest of the Mayflower, and there is not a single “Fuentes” to be found. Indeed, the rowdier white-power element in Texas, where I live, would very much like to see every man bearing the name “Fuentes” set down on the southerly side of a muddy little river that runs through Laredo. Peter Cvjetanovic, the 20-year-old rage-monkey bellowing in one of the now-famous photos of the tiki-Nazi procession in Virginia, complains: “I’m not the angry racist they see in that photo.” One hopes not: “Cvjetanović” is a Croat name. Not a whole lot of Slavs on the Mayflower, either, and the originators of that swastika flag the angry white boys in Virginia like to fly would have put every Cvjetanović they could lay hands on in a camp, eventually. Benito Mussolini reported that he himself had been impressed by a protest against “Jugo-Slav” immigrants in Italy.

[Recursion]

25. "Fuentes"?

Really?

[lunasun]

28. He is not from Chicago but he helped organize the Unite the Right protest from his parent's

basement while being a student council leader at Lyons Township HS as a senior
This is a suburban school in the SW suburbs not far from Brookfield zoo
He does not look Latino but claims 1/4 Mexican and some Afto Caribbean heritage
Mostly wasp out there so maybe got harassed for his name when younger or just an asshole
who knows where smug little shits like this learn to hate others

[ck4829]

29. Blaming antifa instead of accepting responsibility, typical

[KY_EnviroGuy]

30. Who funds these racist brats traveling around the country spreading hate?

Many working people with no money to even take a short vacation would like to know.......