GoldenRod
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CPAC and White Nationalists
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cpac-white-nationalists-extremists-michelle-malkin-peter-brimelow_n_5c7c3834e4b0e1f776530551
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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — In 2004, far-right activist Michelle Malkin published a racist book called “In Defense of Internment.” It argued that the United States was right to forcibly remove 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry from their homes during World War II — 70 percent of whom were American citizens — and place them in internment camps for years, where they often lived behind barbed-wire fences under the watch of armed guards.
On Friday afternoon, Malkin was a featured speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, speaking from the same stage where Vice President Mike Pence had spoken just a few hours earlier, and where President Donald Trump spoke Saturday.
Malkin — who, it bears repeating, wrote a book that defended putting an ethnic group in government internment camps — told the crowd that current immigration levels amount to an “invasion” that “endangers our general welfare and the blessings of liberty.”
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Among those whom Malkin listed as on the “front lines for liberty” were Gavin McInnes, the racist and anti-Semitic founder of the violent neofascist gang the Proud Boys; Laura Loomer, the anti-Muslim activist and InfoWars conspiracy theorist; and the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigrant group founded by a eugenicist.
Malkin closed her speech by telling the crowd that “diversity is not our strength,” parroting a slogan white supremacists have used for years. “And I know those words are a trigger,” she continued. “Diversity is not our strength. Unity is. Our common purpose is the common defense of our nation. Good people make America great. Good people stand up and fight. Thank you.”
The crowd, full of people in red “Make America Great Again” hats, roared.
After the speech, white nationalist Peter Brimelow stood in the hallway outside the ballroom, an official CPAC attendee badge dangling from his neck. He was delighted.
Brimelow — a racist who has said “Hispanics do specialize in rape” — runs the hate site VDare.com, named for Virginia Dare, said to be the first white baby born in the so-called New World. He has regularly published the work of anti-Semites and Nazi sympathizers, including big-name white supremacists like Richard Spencer. He has also published the writing of Malkin.
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Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to Trump, spoke from the main stage Thursday, warning the CPAC crowd about the alleged perils of socialism. Gorka has been a regular contributor to Fox News and The Rebel, a Canadian far-right website. (The Rebel once published a video by Gavin McInnes called “Ten Things I Hate About Jews.”)
Gorka is an anti-Muslim extremist, long associating himself with Islamophobic hate groups. He has said that accepting Muslim refugees into America would be a “national suicide.” In 2017, speaking in his capacity as a White House official, Gorka told MSNBC that a bombing of a Minnesota mosque may have been a “fake hate crime.” (It was not.)
Gorka has also been photographed wearing a medal associated with Vitezi Rend, a Nazi-linked Hungarian political group. Gorka denied being part of the group, but Vitezi Rend stated that he was, in fact, a sworn member.
Another anti-Muslim extremist, Frank Gaffney, was featured on a panel about China at this year’s CPAC. Gaffney was banned from CPAC for years due to his unhinged claim that two CPAC board members were covertly working for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Gaffney is arguably America’s foremost anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist, heading up the organization Center for Security Policy, which he’s used to promote debunked claims about how American Muslims are plotting to take over the U.S. government. (During HuffPost’s CPAC interview with Brimelow, a man wearing a Center for Security Policy badge came up and shook Brimelow’s hand. Brimelow told HuffPost the man was a “friend.”)
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When one of the biggest support groups of the current Republican party, and a group that the president and VP attend and speak at, is full of speakers that are members of hate groups, it's really hard not to lump them all together....
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