Hilton El Conquistador cancels plans to host upcoming white nationalist VDare conference

[demmiblue]

Source: Media Matters



The Hilton El Conquistador in Tucson, AZ, has canceled plans to host an upcoming “immigration conference” by the white nationalist group VDare. It is the third time this year that VDare has unsuccessfully attempted to schedule a conference.

VDare runs a racist website that’s been heavily criticized by civil rights groups for pushing white nationalism. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the white nationalist site “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites.” The Anti-Defamation League wrote that VDare is a racist site that “posts, promotes, and archives the work of racists, anti-immigrant figures, and anti-Semites.”

Headlines on VDare include: “One Problem With These Hispanic Immigrants Is Their Disgusting Behavior,” “Indians Aren`t That Intelligent (On Average),” “Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Hispanic Immigrants Taking Over FBI’s Ten Most Wanted,” “America Does Not Need ANY Immigrants From Africa,” and “Roll Over, JIHAD—There’s Also HIJRA, Muslim Conquest By Immigration.”

VDare is so bad that even the editor in chief for Breitbart privately called it “racist,” according to reporting by BuzzFeed (despite that private condemnation, Breitbart has publicly defended VDare).

Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/10/20/hilton-el-conquistador-cancels-plans-host-upcoming-white-nationalist-vdare-conference/218277

[Sunlei]

1. good. no one should promote the Republicans-Nazis hate POGROM against immigrants.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. Mar-a-Lago has some openings in its schedule

and they should be happy to host some like-minded group such as this.

[muntrv]

3. Hilton is exercising their private property rights to exclude VDARE.

[bullwinkle428]

4. "Controversial immigration patriots" - talk about polishing a turd!!

[Initech]

5. Wow, when Breitbart calls you racist, that's pretty fucking racist!

[Wounded Bear]

6. K & R...for visibility...

Good to see some businesses stepping up.

[angrychair]

7. Darn

I guess we’re all gathering around the cross burning again

[IronLionZion]

8. Unfortunately a vocal group of DUers agree with VDARE on Indians

and deliberately erase the government documented line between the 4 million of us who are US citizens and the 40,500 H1bs each year. It's more than a bit frustrating for brown natural born US citizens applying for jobs that require federal security clearances and US citizenship when too many idiots believe there's only one type of American. Schrodinger's H-1b is simultaneously stealing your job and too lazy to work.

It's the same deal with Trumpsters believing undocumented immigrants are voting illegally for Democrats and collecting benefits.

[lagomorph777]

9. The hotel's name is white supremacist.

The racists probably thought it would be the perfect location.

I propose they go to the middle of Death Valley National Monument. It's Federal land, so 1st Amendment applies. And it's too far from civilization to pose a threat to decent people.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. I imagine they only backed out because of business backlash

Otherwise the Hilton's and Trump's are very good friends. So I'd imagine they share the same white supremacist beliefs. Trump had been eyeing Paris since she was 12. And endorsed her book,



And her brother was videoed spewing a racist, homophobic rant.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4486302/Conrad-Hilton-unleashed-homophobic-tirade-police.html

So I imagine they were brought up in much the same racist household as the Trumps. I'm sure they were happy to hold such a vile conference until the optics just wouldn't hold up for them.