Black, gay Trump supporter brutally taunted with slurs at rightwing conference

When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online.

Black gay Republican podcaster Rob Smith has claimed that “white supremacist” members of his political party called him “fa**ot” and the n-word during his Sunday night attendance of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona. Though Smith posted a video of his brief interaction with the aggressors, commenters on X (formerly Twitter) noted that the video didn’t feature the n-word and mocked Smith his membership in an anti-gay political party.

“Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don’t like gays or blacks in the Republican Party,” Smith wrote in a December 18 post on X. “They shouted ‘nr’ and ‘ft’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”

JeeBaiChow,

Maybe having served in Iraq, he should have learned how a mistake is sometimes just a mistake and to know how to change your course of action once it turns out to be a mistake.

DogMuffins,

Why does he feel that it’s relevant here? I don’t really follow that part.

JeeBaiChow,

BCOS the military and its vets are the R’s version of ‘think of the babies’, right until the point they ask for bothersome thugs like rights and support.

magnetosphere,
magnetosphere avatar

Or maybe he just learned how to live in denial, and put a positive spin on a nightmarish clusterfuck. Mission Accomplished!

JeeBaiChow,

Pretty much most Rs today.

Psychodelic,

“mistake”

Oops, we just killed a million Iraqis. Silly empire

rottingleaf,

Maybe he has an ideological reason and considers such events less important than that.

Say, he’s a supporter of right-wing populist state capitalism. Satan knows why, Satan knows how, but he is.

Is there an alternative political affiliation for him, so that he wouldn’t be a Trump supporter?

EdibleFriend,
@EdibleFriend@lemmy.world avatar

black man attends KKK meeting, shocked to find they were rather rude to him

mx_smith,

Clayton Bigsby?

Deceptichum,
Deceptichum avatar

I mean Daryl Davis…

KpntAutismus,

he did not try to participate, he made friends and was mostly observing.

and in the process managed to change some of these people’s minds.

violetraven,
@violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

He says here he participated https://www.ted.com/talks/daryl_davis_why_i_as_a_black_man_attend_kkk_rallies
And his conversion rate isn’t foolproof https://archive.is/We57h

jaybone,

This was a Dave Chapelle skit.

magnetosphere, (edited )
magnetosphere avatar

If this is what it takes for him to realize that he’s on the side of people who hate him, then I guess it’s ultimately for the best. Since he still insists he will “never back down”, though, I’m not very hopeful.

Edit: I didn’t know Roseanne Barr was a full-on Holocaust denier. Terrible person, sure, but I didn’t realize she’d gone that far off the rails. Huh.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

I mean, I’m not sure what he expected.

Surprised they didn’t mock him for his military service too!

nbcnews.com/…/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately…

pope,

WHAT A MOROON

someguy,

@MicroWave
This is like an Atheist going to a Jewish synagogue and expecting Jews to reject their religious beliefs.

aceshigh,
@aceshigh@lemmy.world avatar

The only logical solution here is to double down on his beliefs.

phx,

No shit, right? While not all people in that group are racists, bigots, or homophobes it is the side which is more likely to attract such. Gotta have some real blinders on to think that a black, gay man is going to be welcomed by all as “part of the team”

TimLovesTech,
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social avatar

This guy is probably only OK with the hate when they have tiki torches chanting “Jews will not replace us”, or when Orange Leader is telling the cult that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our nation”. Who knew they would be hateful towards people that are gay and/or black when Orange Leader had a dinner party with a former KKK Grand Wizard?!?!

FReddit,

What did this dumb shit expect?

tryagain,

For the leopards to not…uh… lynch him? It’s hard to see his position as being anything other than a grift, and I think he knew full well what would happen and this outrage/pointing-and-laughing is all part of the play.

stolid_agnostic,

He hoped that he would be one of the “good ones” in their eyes. He’s in it for the economic policy more than anything.

TransplantedSconie,

Damn man. The monetary haul from stupid people must be THAT good lmao.

ramius345,

The leopard ate his face.

VonCesaw,

It is UNFAIR to expect me to know/accept that the Leopards Eating Faces Party would eat MY face

unreasonabro,

Never ever backing down from a stupid fucking position like “black gay republican” or “The Iraq War” seems like an issue to discuss in therapy, dumbfuck. Not the national news. Christ i fucking hate people.

CCF_100,

Why on earth would a gay man want to be a Republican? Just seems like a conflict of interest…

unreasonabro, (edited )

gullibility combined with personality traits like “i never back down because i was in a wrong and illegal war started by the party of criminals who want to kill me and everyone like me” could be one reason, I think.

maybe he just really hates poor people.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT,

Maybe he believes it really is just about class and nothing else and thought, ka-ching! Time to get in with the class that’s exploiting everyone and only pretending to be white supremacist to stir up the plebs

afraid_of_zombies,

The same reason why a poor white person with kids would?

I do agree that your example is much more extreme, but maybe it’s a question of degree not kind.

TransplantedSconie,

Grifting stupid people.

derf82,

Some people are richer than they are gay.

smackjack,

We’ll probably see more gay Republicans now that same-sex marriage is legal everywhere and no one seems interested in challenging it.

Jomega,

They are absolutely still interested in challenging it. They’ve been talking about repealing it since the day that it was enacted. Why do you think they keep dialing up the anti LGBT rhetoric? Do you think that they just threw up their hands and said “oh well!” when that thing they railed against for decades happened? That which they raged against with all the hatred in their hearts. That they insisted was a sin against god and would lead to the collapse of Western civilization?

They didn’t stop being angry at us. They’re still pissed.

Duamerthrax,

Based on the one I know, toxic upbringing, dumb as rocks, and completely unemphatic to anyone else. I was stuck in a car with one that’s a family friend for 25 hours. He’s managed to survive, so why can’t all the other lgbts just suck it up is probably the unspoken thought he has. When he was complaining that the Metrosexuals messed up his ability to find other gay people, I told him I haven’t heard anyone use that term in years. He was also convinced that his boyfriend is hiding that fact that he works as at a porn store and that’s going to get him fired from his job as an… Pianist/Organist for the Catholic Church. I try to avoid him.

Baines,

ah lack of empathy is such a great indicator of conseravtism

stolid_agnostic,

It’s all about the financial aspect. These people tend to be wealthier and very anti-tax. They hope to be one of the “good ones” that are tokenized in the party.

Gazumi,

In other news, Turkeys are voting for Christmas

doctorcrimson,

Log Cabin Republicans are very persistent to last as long as they have.

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