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Do you have a source for that? Beyond the NYT piece, which is so laughable it does hit pieces a disservice by being grouped with them.

• wizzwizz4 5y ago
  The NYT piece didn't even say that; it said that he supported genocide (??), which is similar, but I don't remember it saying that he courted neo-Nazis. (Or was that one of the heavily-implied things I was oblivious to?)
  • arijun 5y ago
    Perhaps it was more implying they were welcomed? > The voices also included white supremacists and neo-fascists. The only people who struggled to be heard... were “social justice warriors.”
• Impassionata 5y ago
  There's some leaked emails where he plainly states he's chasing that audience. https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.com/TopherTBrennan/status/1362108632070905857 https://web.archive.org/web/20210217195335/https://twitter.c... I wouldn't say he's racist but it's almost worse. He didn't think about how this would go down, which is to say, when you court an audience that has a reputation of being overtly racist, your audience will become more and more racist, driving good people out.
  • arijun 5y ago
    I couldn't read Scott's email at your link but I could here: https://twitter.com/arsonatdennys/status/1362153191102677001 https://twitter.com/arsonatdennys/status/1362153191102677001 I don't think his reasoning is that crazy here--I certainly don't see it as the smoking gun that you or the person who tweeted it do. I also haven't noticed a huge amount of racists in his comment section, although I have to admit I haven't spent all that much time on the blog.