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Michigan state House candidate has shared antisemitic posts, including one calling feminism a Jewish program to degrade white menRobert Regan, the Republican nominee for a safely conservative state House seat in Michigan, has frequently re-posted antisemitic content and shared his own extreme views on Jews.
Regan is in a good position to win a May 3 special election for a vacant seat representing Kent County, Michigans 74th state district, after winning a crowded Republican primary last week by a narrow margin of 81 votes (according to unofficial tallies). Michigans Republican Party congratulated Regan on Wednesday for winning the primary.
In May 2021, Regans personal Facebook page shared two posts, still visible on his page as of Monday, in which he expressed antisemitic opinions. In one, he shared an image of a quote branded by the logo of Smoloko News, a now-defunct antisemitic website. The quote described feminism as a Jewish program to degrade and subjugate white men.
In January of last year, Regan shared a link to an antisemitic family history of the Rothschilds, the Jewish banking family often at the center of conspiracy theories about Jews and world banking domination. Two months later, he shared a meme made by a QAnon influencer that called (((Them))) the real virus in a post calling public health measures to combat COVID-19 nonsense. The triple parentheses, or echo symbol, is used online by antisemites to identify Jews.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Deuxcents
(16,330 posts)What is wrong with some people?
madaboutharry
(40,220 posts)Why are there so many bad people in the world?
Behind the Aegis
(53,985 posts)We make for an easy target. Anti-Semitism is fashionable, ancient, and depending on who is doing it, excusable.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)llmart
(15,552 posts)I believe they are one of the worst counties in the state for Covid deaths. Need I say more?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Maybe it's just you whose self-image is so wrapped up in a false sense of superiority?
Celerity
(43,497 posts)Climbing up the QMAGAt charts with a bullet.
Behind the Aegis
(53,985 posts)WTF?!
Him Gohmert, Bobbert, MTG, Cruz, Cawthorne and Rubio, can start a club called "The NUTZIS"!
highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)And how do we get them back underneath it and make sure they never crawl out again?
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)Whatever is making white supremacists mad at any given moment, suddenly "IT'S BEING RUN BY THE JEWS!!!". Fucking insane.
bullwinkle428
(20,630 posts)Elders of Zion". These pricks are all the same.
Archae
(46,345 posts)To the days of the early Christian church, once they got political power under the Roman Emperor Justinian, they ran with it, setting up anti-Semitic pogroms.
keep_left
(1,792 posts)...and feminism = Da Jooz. These alt-right morons just check every box when it comes to stereotypes. The only things that I didn't see mention of are radtrad Catholicism and chicken tendies. The article does mention his pathetic MRA/PUA "business":
"He also manages his own business called Big Boyz Shorts, which bills itself as a subscription service 'to provide meaningful and inspiring stories about manhood' and to encourage 'chaotic boys' to become 'young orderly men' and 'creative patriarchs.' "
So another box checked: grifting your gullible manchildren followers.
The alt-right obsession with Da Jooz has to be the laziest conspiracy theory ever. Like, literally, it's "we can't think of anything else, so it's gotta be Jooz!". Reminds me of the "Blame Canada" skit from South Park.
radius777
(3,635 posts)in this country, as there are too many partisan seats in local, state and even federal (the House) gov't, where kooks/racists/antisemites can win and be relatively safe. If these offices/races were open to a larger pool of voters (ie not as partisan and ideological) we would have a more functional gov't.
Behind the Aegis
(53,985 posts)BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 3/7/22 AT 6:23 PM EST
Critics are blasting Robert Regan, a Republican nominee for the Michigan House of Representatives, for publicly comparing the 2020 presidential election to a rape.
"I tell my daughters, 'Well, if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it,'" Regan joked on a Facebook livestream.
"That was a shameful comment," said Amber Harris, a Republican strategist, of Regan's rape remarks. The livestream's host, Adam de Angeli, told WXMI that Regan "misspoke," adding, "Maybe not the best analogy, but he was speaking extemporaneously."
Advocates say rape victims are often asked why they didn't "fight back" and are often blamed for their own rape because they "secretly enjoyed it."
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/lie-back-enjoy-it-if-raped-state-rep-jokes-hed-tell-daughters-1685698?piano_t=1
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