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But it's not limited to "white" nationalists. They recently deplatformed infamous anti-semite and black nationalist Louis Farrakhan. And before anyone says thi

But it's not limited to "white" nationalists. They recently deplatformed infamous anti-semite and black nationalist Louis Farrakhan. And before anyone says this guy has always been a crank: he was actively being courted by Repulicans like Jack Kemp in the 1980s back when his anti-communist views were deemed politically useful.

busterarm 7y ago
> And before anyone says this guy has always been a crank: he was actively being courted by Repulicans like Jack Kemp in the 1980s back when his anti-communist views were deemed politically useful. Maybe such a claim is useful to you but it really doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I grew up in the 80s, in a conservative household, and in New York City - Jack Kemp's home turf. His political career was effectively over by 1982, taking 6 years to really die and I don't think I heard his name mentioned a single time in the 15 years I grew up having to listen to conservative talk radio all day every day. What I did have to hear though, starting from the beginning of Bob Grant's era through Sliwa's morning and Limbaugh's afternoon shows, was what a threat to American society Louis Farrakhan was. He literally was enemy number one in the crosshairs of right-wing talk radio hosts for nearly 20 years.
- spamizbad 7y ago
  Jack Kemp was Bob Dole’s VP nominee and continued to praise Farrakhan into the 90s. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/kemp-praises-farrakhan-for-his-focus-on-family.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/kemp-praises-farrakhan... I understand these days the conservative establishment is mostly in sync with what’s said on talk radio, but that wasn’t always the case.
  - busterarm 7y ago
    Dole lost badly as I recall and Clinton regularly reminded people of Dole's age during his campaigning. Dole was widely thought to be too old to serve two terms and maybe not even a whole first term. Literally nobody wanted Kemp to be president were that to happen.
Fins 7y ago
That seems to be a prime example of "too little, too late", and looks like a rather han-fisted attempt to appear fair.

busterarm 7y ago

> And before anyone says this guy has always been a crank: he was actively being courted by Repulicans like Jack Kemp in the 1980s back when his anti-communist views were deemed politically useful. Maybe such a claim is useful to you but it really doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I grew up in the 80s, in a conservative household, and in New York City - Jack Kemp's home turf. His political career was effectively over by 1982, taking 6 years to really die and I don't think I heard his name mentioned a single time in the 15 years I grew up having to listen to conservative talk radio all day every day. What I did have to hear though, starting from the beginning of Bob Grant's era through Sliwa's morning and Limbaugh's afternoon shows, was what a threat to American society Louis Farrakhan was. He literally was enemy number one in the crosshairs of right-wing talk radio hosts for nearly 20 years.

spamizbad 7y ago
Jack Kemp was Bob Dole’s VP nominee and continued to praise Farrakhan into the 90s. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/kemp-praises-farrakhan-for-his-focus-on-family.html https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/10/us/kemp-praises-farrakhan... I understand these days the conservative establishment is mostly in sync with what’s said on talk radio, but that wasn’t always the case.
- busterarm 7y ago
  Dole lost badly as I recall and Clinton regularly reminded people of Dole's age during his campaigning. Dole was widely thought to be too old to serve two terms and maybe not even a whole first term. Literally nobody wanted Kemp to be president were that to happen.

Fins 7y ago

That seems to be a prime example of "too little, too late", and looks like a rather han-fisted attempt to appear fair.