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.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/video-shows-white-supremacists-shouting-slurs-at-black-gay-republican/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
#leopardsatemyface
The true bigots are the left /s
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Leopards paid me off.
Clayton Bigsby?
This was a Dave Chapelle skit.
I mean Daryl Davis…
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.
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
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.
Or maybe he just learned how to live in denial, and put a positive spin on a nightmarish clusterfuck. Mission Accomplished!
Pretty much most Rs today.
"mistake"
Oops, we just killed a million Iraqis. Silly empire
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?
Why does he feel that it's relevant here? I don't really follow that part.
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.
He went to what was essentially a white supremacist rally and was shocked to meet white supremacists.
Hopefully no one feels sorry and donates to him. I have a feeling, though.
Exactly. This is on him to a certain degree.
I guess 100% is a certain degree...
I don't understand this take. Because he served in the military, he won't stop being allies with people even when they attack him and call him hateful slurs?
I don't think I've ever heard the "I served in Iraq, so I'm a doormat" argument before...
This guy is in this video https://youtu.be/42X_eAOU4DU?feature=shared
I think it's chilling that this anti-fascism video from 70 years ago is still just as relevant today. For anyone interested, here is the full version.
Attention? Self-loathing? Money? There are options. No good ones, but they're there.
Not so much that last one. Nobody that's not already ridiculously wealthy (like 0.1% wealthy) is going to profit under the GOP, it's just a question of how far back in the queue you are to get fleeced. All their policies are based around concentrating all the nations wealth into as few hands as possible. It's why the GOP has such a love affair with Russia of late, they want to emulate Putin and his oligarch minions.
They think they will lower taxes and the market will do better. So they save an extra thousand on federal tax and their 401k goes up a bit. Which isn’t true, but that’s what they think.
Ah yes, the most quintessential of Republican voter, the moron. Reagan caused so much damage to the US with his trickledown economics fantasy, and the worst part is I'm not even sure he intended to. At least Trump is legitimately a terrible human being that I can feel perfectly justified in hating as the walking pond scum he is.
The Republican party is just a mafia at this point
Well he's a podcaster... and here we are talking about him. I'm certain that his numbers will enjoy a bump.
Maybe he's racist against immigrants? Alternatively, maybe he's hoping that they'll care more about him being a fellow rich person (if he is in fact rich) than about his gay blackness (they don't).
Maybe he bought the lie that the ideology that belies Conservative platform isn't racist (or is an acceptable parameter of racist) or homophobic... Or maybe he just feels like he's been accepted into the club when he gets cheered on by his Conservative buddies for slaging on trans folk and other POCs because they lift him up as an exception. " Here's what a "good" gay black guy looks like. See we're not racist and our platform has merit we got one of them on our side! Buy him a drink! "... This holds up until you get into company that doesn't have to lie to themselves that they aren't trying to oppress you and want you to just not be an uncomfortable problem anymore.
Every genocide has idiots who join the other side in a bid to be a pet for safety and sell out their own communities in hope they will be respectable and safe... It's a gambit that only proves you're scum before it gets you get killed.
Last job, the gay Hispanic receptionist was a Trump man. My Philippina wife was too. Past tense, once I showed her a few things. She had only seen Fox News in her 2-years in America.
This guy? Fuck is his excuse?!
The only way a gay black man is a republican is because republicans are easy to grift.
He's stupid.
Or simply masochist...
"don't call me a n----- or I'll cum"
too much time downwind of a burn pit?
My guess as well
He likely bought into the idea of “well, there’s bigots on both sides, but at least the GOP will help me keep more of my money.”
The problem, however, is that the GOP have doubled down on social issues that shouldn’t really be part of the platform, and in doing so, the GOP have turned away from anything that was remotely useful in them.
This idea of the “self-made” person and pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps sounds appealing on paper and can be inviting at first. My grandmother received her Master’s in Nursing at a time when the vast majority of blacks, let alone black women, in a medical field weren’t doing much more than the laundry. It’s easy to be proud of such things and attribute this to conservative ideals of doing “more” out of pure determination and strength of will, and then admonishing those who have neither the drive nor intelligence to do the same.
And then…there was Trump.
Under his umbrella, it seemed as if overnight, the party that was about doing for “self” was more about removing options for anyone who wasn’t a straight white Christian and ensuring that the “others” stayed in their place. What could once be ignored with the dismissive of “well, there’s plenty of liberals who are racist too”, was no longer applicable. The Left turned from the racists who pretended to care for show to just the people who’d rather let a few so-called “undeserving” folks get fed, clothed, and housed to ensuring that the hundred who really need help would be able to get it. Meanwhile, the Right continued down the path of being anti-everything; anti-anyone not white, not male, not Christian, and they weren’t even remotely concerned about the deficit or lowering taxes across the board for the people instead of just for major corporations and the top 1% of the 1%.
I don’t blame this man for having been a gay black Republican at some point, and trying to hold onto what he thought made sense in the past. I do, however, raise an eyebrow at any rational person who has watched the GOP’s descent and yet has still marched with them while they refuse to back away from white nationalism and show approval of outright hatred of all women, and non-Christians, and all people of color, and all those who aren’t cis-heteronormative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
Maybe they're one of Hillary's other mentioned deplorables. Or maybe they're like the other half that are just disconnected from reality and don't feel like any of Trump's shit will impact them (until it does). And to be fair, Democrats have worked hard to make sure people aren't impacted by the things Trump did.
Must be fiscally conservative and worried about the debt. That's what they're focused on right? Right? /s
Money.
'cuz at least he's not a woman
He's probably just an idiot.
The usual answer of Log Cabin Republicans is "I like lower taxes". Not much thought beyond that.
He doesn’t realize that there’s a quota of “one of the good ones” and it’s already been met
Shit, is there a Leopards Eating Faces community yet? If not, this would be a prime contender for the first post.
Hermain Caine has sealed GOAT leopard-face-eating status for all time, or at least as long as he continues posthumously tweeting.
Holy fuck. The ghouls who worked for him are still using his Twitter account? Lmao.
Color me shocked.
![email protected]
If you throw an exclamation mark in front of it people can use it as a link with most of the apps.
Aah I have such fond memories of that place
Me as well. Every day dealing with my mask at work hoping that I wouldn't be the small fraction of the population that still gets messed even vaxxed, then sitting down and scrolling through the long timeline of a goatee hat and sun glasses or religious-karen going from tough to vent.
Hot take: If leopards are only eating faces on one side of the political spectrum, maybe you need to consider that only one side is consistently voting for leopards eating faces.
I only know one guy in the hundreds of millions of dollars club (CEO and near sole owner of the corp I work for) and he is fairly leftwing. So I am going to nominate him. However, to be fair, even under some insane situation where the DNC had full power for several election cycles it isn't like there won't be rich people, there will be, they will just pay higher taxes. He isn't going to be on food stamps any time soon.
You keep saying that but don't post proof.
LOL that url, nice and spelled out for easy dissemination to the rubes.
I call bullshit - Let's see a few examples of liberals/democrats getting their faces eaten by policies they support.
"Oh noes, this free college is hurting me" "Oh noes, all this free healthcare, my wallet is too fat"
Just to be obvious here, show me what laws liberals have actually been able to pass just how they championed for, and show me the face eating. I'm waiting.
Inb4 something about an immigrantl/minority/female committing a crime (cause liberals are so pro crime)
So the fuck what. It's almost as though humans shouldn't be predisposed to shit lives by arbitrary borders in places that western nations like America fueled their instability in the first place.
Perhaps not, but it would be nice if the wealthy shared their privilege with the less-fortunate, right? Last I checked Norway IS a Christian nation, after all... Would be awfully Jesus-like if they broke bread with their less-fortunate neighbors, now, wouldn't it? Of course I'm not saying the burden rests solely on Norway; rather it is a shared burden of the collective.
lmao you gettin raged on by all the muritards sorry m8
they can't even read lol
And another one for the block list.
Says the Euro trash.
Generally speaking, European arrogance like this is based on looking at US conservatives -- which is why this is so confusing, because you and OP are ideologically the same as US conservatives.
Or... Hear me out... One side just does it more frequently.
Zero sympathy. You ride with fascists, this is what happens.
"Guys, I am so shocked and offended and hurt that I would be called racial and homophobic slurs while speaking at the racist, homophobic convention. I thought being a Republican would make me one of the good ones to them! why isnt it making me one of the good ones to them!"
There's a party for economically conservative non-bigots, and it's called the Democratic Party.
Not possible.
To be a Republican you have to fundamentally hate America, and be extreme in thought.
its always been the case.
They used to just make effort to hide it from Cameras and public.
The only difference now is they dropped all pretense about it after Obama's election and they lost their mind over losing to a black man.
You can no more turn the Republican party into a good, for the people party, than you can turn the KKK or Proud Boys into a civics organization that helps low income communities of color.
Take away their bigotry and they have nothing else in common.
Why on earth would a gay man want to be a Republican? Just seems like a conflict of interest...
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.
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
Some people are richer than they are gay.
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.
ah lack of empathy is such a great indicator of conseravtism
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.
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.
Grifting stupid people.
We'll probably see more gay Republicans now that same-sex marriage is legal everywhere and no one seems interested in challenging it.
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.
What kind of battle over cognitive dissonance must people like this face?..
Dude must have an Olympic gold metal for mental gymnastics...
Money. It's the answer. Money.
here in germany, we have a politician who is in the AfD (a right-wing party, where many members are literally Nazis).
and he is an immigrant, talking about how we should stop immigration. he only gets accepted in there because he is as bigoted as them.
i know it has little to do with this post, but i got reminded of this story by it.
Trump claims immigrants are "poisoning the blood of this country." His wife, ex-wife, and mother are immigrants...
But they're from the correct group and countries. They want eastern European characters because they'll be the correct religion and skin color. Do they hold those beliefs? Doesn't matter. What matters is the image not the people. People are expendable, ideals sell.
Many Republican leaders are children of immigrants.
Many also say our birthrate is too low and we need more young people to support our future economy, something immigration builds up.
None of it makes sense.
It does when you accept that it's all a thin veneer for "we need to outbreed the undesirables"
"Well I'm doing my part!" --a gay furry, pounding a dudes cute ass
"no not like that!"
Thank you for your service 🫡
🥺😘
I have a coworker who is anti-immigrant because she thinks all immigrants are unvaccinated and spread diseases. She is also anti-vax.
I also have two half-Thai cousins who are anti-immigrant.
The leopard ate his face.
It is UNFAIR to expect me to know/accept that the Leopards Eating Faces Party would eat MY face
Breaking news: Face-eating leopard advocate gets face eaten by leopards
"I'm going to eat you."
He just tells it like it is!
Leopards and Faces come to mind here.
Black and gay? I'm just confused. Didn't you get the memo that these are the two things Republicans hate the most?
Cognitive dissonance
No, they hate black and gay women more.
But if he wouldn't grift, he would be even worse off! can't be black, gay AND poor, what would they think of him!
I'm sure he's definitely grifting somehow, but being black and gay I'd imagine people on the left would throw money at him if he wasn't a piece of shit. I don't know if he is, just saying if he wasn't then it would probably be easy and he'd have the benefit of not having to deal with actual racist nazis
Nobody parts with their money like the right. The left doesn’t just rally behind anything with the right keywords and will often provide emotional support before anything else.
The left has so many people who are abused for just being who they are that something like that is a Tuesday and not special enough to warrant sending $10 to a rando. There are bigger fish to fry and many would rather go after the instutions that allowed the pain to happen in the first place than pat themselves on the back for a weak bandaid solution.
There's lots of gay black guys, why would the left throw money at him?
Maybe he's a masochist.
Probs thought it cancels out.
I mean, I'm not sure what he expected.
Surprised they didn't mock him for his military service too!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-confirms-trump-privately-disparaged-us-service-members-vete-rcna118543
What did this dumb shit expect?
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.
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.
"i don't understand why these leopards that I voted for are eating my face."
-Black, gay Trump supporter Rob Smith
He is like that dude from Saw who cut off his leg to get free, but the chain hasn't been actaully connected to anything but him. And as a war-forged vet, he promise he'd cut another one just to keep grifting. If something, that scandal only upped his media visibility, and there would be lots of people curious wtf he even is, and to bait him with slurs as he does react on them. Hold it, his stonks bag says, hold it, as you can always run safe at a short notice. Next it would be flying bottles and he'd still think he can earn a little more before quiting. It's not safe to be a career hypocrite.
First they came for the n***** f******
I don't see those two words together often, but when I do it always brings me back to that derrick comedy spelling bee sketch
https://youtu.be/G2nTbqbtGug?si=_dssYREHyBJ-Q6x8
I'm really glad I wasn't the only one lmao, I wasn't sure if I should have even made the joke.
(That was hysterical...)
What do pineapples have to do with this?
Nothing really. Not at all.
How can anyone be that stupid? Of course, he is free to support Trump, but this is not the wisest move, not for anybody, but especially not for anyone who is not exactly white supremacist recruting material...
That kind of cognitive dissonance is widespread in minority groups everywhere. Right-wingers have become extremely adept at pretending to be civil, telling them "we don't have anything against you, because you're one of the good ones." And these poor souls believe it, because they don't understand what the right-wingers want to say, which is "we'll go after you, once we're done with your friends."
He's not dumb. He knows republicans are easy to grift. He's trying to be like Candace Owens.
*pikachu face*
This should surprise nobody.
The only logical solution here is to double down on his beliefs.
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"
Knowing when to quit a battle is a virtue, not a failure.
Dear Rob Smith: Pick up the clue phone on line one. It's been ringing off the hook since you got here.
He is so dumb to support Trump. But so are all Trump supporters, anyway.
Grifters gotta grift.
I'd say this is the wrong Community, because racist homophobes being racist and homophobic isn't really news, but I don't think there's a c/whatthefuckdidyouthinkwouldhappenyoudick Community.
c/LeopardsAteMyFace
Is c/whatever just a stylistic thing copying r/whatever from Reddit, or is there some circumstance where it acts as a functioning link to a community?
I think the syntax is !community@instance.
In other news, Turkeys are voting for Christmas
So they said the quiet part out loud?
Republicans have never been all that quiet …
I don't like anyone in the Republican Party.
We are not the same.
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.
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.
Is there a leopards ate my face fediverse community?
!conservative
Yes but I don't know how to post links. It's [email protected]
![email protected]
Just add an exclamation mark at the start
add @ to that like this
@leopardsatemyface
Should work on any instance without leaving. the lemmy ones shit me to no end because they're basically just an offsite link.
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?!?!
Yeah, no shit. That's why we don't allow that speech
Respectability politics backfires.
Everything about this is sad.
I think it's funny.
I agree with both of you.
It is a bit saddy
Damn man. The monetary haul from stupid people must be THAT good lmao.
they only get up in the morning to cause suffering
Without proof or corroborating witnesses, he'll be called a Jussie.
Shocking if true
Dean Browning?
Sucked in, dickhead.
Poor idiot
Maybe there were just lots of pieces of paper that said ...
Get fucked, asshole
DEAN BROWING NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO
what an utterly strange thing
Huh. How come?
WHAT A MOROON
@MicroWave
This is like an Atheist going to a Jewish synagogue and expecting Jews to reject their religious beliefs.