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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConspiracy theories and racist memes: How a dozen Tx. GOP county chairs caused turmoil within party
On Friday morning, Texas top Republican officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, had condemned four GOP chairs for proliferating conspiracy theories on Facebook. The posts, from chairs of some of the largest counties in Texas, suggested George Floyds death was staged to erode black support for President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, a fifth chairperson posted a racist image of a Martin Luther King Jr. quote next to a banana.
On Friday afternoon, The Texas Tribune identified similar posts from seven more GOP chairs across the state. Some of these posts suggested people who have been protesting Floyds death across the state and the country were being paid by Jewish billionaire George Soros an oft-used anti-Semitic trope.
GOP county chairs are elected leaders of the Republican Party who help oversee local elections and head up county-level meetings and events. News circulating about the first five chairs posts sparked concern both internal and external about the Texas GOP.
This is a disgusting level of ignorance thats hard to hear from anyone, much less an elected official, State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, said in an email to the Tribune. Im glad to see Republican state leaders finally start to push back against this nonsense and look forward to a day when we can actually debate fact-based policy instead of constantly refuting conspiracies.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/05/texas-gop-chairs-racist-george-floyd/
tblue37
(65,490 posts)mercuryblues
(14,544 posts)malaise
(269,200 posts)RFN!
struggle4progress
(118,370 posts)maxrandb
(15,362 posts)Retrumplicans AREN'T pushing back against this ignorance...
Their pushing back on making this ignorance public.
That's a huge difference, and you shouldn't let them off the hook so easily.
If this were not made public and highlighted, the Retrumplicans wouldn't say a God Damned thing about it.