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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,335 posts)
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 03:09 PM Aug 2017

Sebastian Gorka says people should stop criticizing white supremacists so much

No one is quite sure what Sebastian Gorka, officially a deputy assistant to President Trump, actually does at the White House. This hasn’t stopped him, however, from being a near constant presence in the media.

Wednesday, Gorka appeared on Breitbart News Daily, the radio show of his former employer. Gorka responded to criticism stemming from a previous media appearance on MSNBC where he said “[t]here’s no such thing as a lone wolf” attack. The concept, according to Gorka, was “invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid.”

The idea of a “lone wolf attack,” Gorka says, is a ruse to point blame away from al Qaeda and ISIS when “[t]here has never been a serious attack or a serious plot that was unconnected from ISIS or al Qaeda.” Critics were quick to point to the example of Timothy McVeigh, who was not connected to ISIS or al Qaeda and killed 168 people when he bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

On Wednesday, Gorka lashed out at “at [New York Times reporter] Maggie Haberman and her acolytes in the fake news media, who immediately have a conniption fit” and brought up McVeigh. He added that “white men” and “white supremacists” are not “the problem.”

https://thinkprogress.org/white-house-adviser-says-people-should-stop-criticizing-white-supremacists-so-much-ddd587767d60/

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Sebastian Gorka says people should stop criticizing white supremacists so much (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2017 OP
Until we're allowed hose them down with aged urine, criticism will have to do Orrex Aug 2017 #1
He's right about McVeigh not being a lone wolf. Girard442 Aug 2017 #2
Sounds like Gorka is the "pajama boy." muntrv Aug 2017 #3
Hungarian Nazi says what about white supremacists? CakeGrrl Aug 2017 #4
Yes, the Hungarian Arrow Cross has a "distinguished" history DBoon Aug 2017 #7
No. Fuck you Gorka. Initech Aug 2017 #5
Millions murdered by the Nazis beg to disagree DBoon Aug 2017 #6
Kick ck4829 Aug 2017 #8

Girard442

(6,087 posts)
2. He's right about McVeigh not being a lone wolf.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 03:15 PM
Aug 2017

Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier were also convicted in the Oklahoma City bombing.

DBoon

(22,405 posts)
7. Yes, the Hungarian Arrow Cross has a "distinguished" history
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 04:09 PM
Aug 2017

They were installed into power by the Nazis in the last months of the war:

"After the Arrowcross putsch, the more than 200,000 strong Jewish community in Budapest, which had been untouched so far, came into direct, life-threatening danger when Adolf Eichmann, who directed the deportation of nearly half a million Jews living in the countryside, returned to Budapest on October 17th. In July, when Horthy stopped the deportations he was removed. Under Eichmann´s command, more than 60,000 Jews were forced on a merciless march westward, to Austria, where they were compelled to build fortifications. Approximately 70,000 Budapest Jews who managed to avoid deportation were forced into a ghetto. At the same time, some 30,000 Jews who possessed letters of protection from neutral countries were given places in “safe houses.” Thousands of others were robbed, executed and thrown into the Danube. The Arrowcross activists were on a murderous rage until the last minute, but the ghetto was saved like none other in Europe. "

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hungarian-nazis-arrow-cross-party

Initech

(100,114 posts)
5. No. Fuck you Gorka.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 03:42 PM
Aug 2017

The sooner the alt right and modern white supremacy is cast into the fiery pit from hell from which it came, the better. Fuck white supremacists.

DBoon

(22,405 posts)
6. Millions murdered by the Nazis beg to disagree
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 04:06 PM
Aug 2017

If the dead could speak, Gorka would be deaf from their screams

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