Virginia GOP Calls Democratic Candidate a Race Traitor for Wanting Confederate Statues Removed

[DonViejo]

Last edited Wed Aug 23, 2017, 04:41 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: The Daily Beast


The Virginia Republican Party on Wednesday essentially deemed the state’s lieutenant governor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam a race traitor for his call to remove Confederate monuments. “@RalphNortham has turned his back on his own family's heritage in demanding monument removal,” the party’s official Twitter account posted. “Shows @RalphNortham will do anything or say anything to try and be #VAGov - #Pathetic.” Northam discovered earlier this year that his ancestors on Virginia’s Eastern Shore owned slaves. Several months later, he called for the relocation of Confederate statues to museums. Northam is currently running for governor against Republican candidate Ed Gillespie.

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UPDATE:

Apparently, the tweets have been deleted by the Virginia GOP

[muntrv]

1. Virginia GOP is national traitor for supporting confederate monuments.

[kimbutgar]

2. Do they not realize this will galvanize people now to vote for Northampton after Charlottesville?

[Warpy]

3. Race traitor? I say American patriot!

That's the only legitimate response. I love it when they get this nasty. They open themselves up to all kinds of shit.

[forgotmylogin]

4. Links are both down. n/t

[NastyRiffraff]

5. They're not even trying to pretend any more

I don't believe for a minute they didn't know EXACTLY what they were saying. "turned his back on his own family's heritage" has been a placeholder for the race traitor accusation since before the Civil War and the "great" tradition was continued in Nazi Germany.

[flibbitygiblets]

9. So, he's bad for "turning his back" on his slave-owning ancestors? Am I hearing this right?

What the Actual Fcuk is wrong with these people???

[The Wizard]

6. They have Trump as a fall back position (NT).

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. The Latest: Virginia GOP apologizes for tweet about Democrat

The Latest: Virginia GOP apologizes for tweet about Democrat

By Associated Press August 23 at 5:08 PM

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The Latest on protests against Confederate monuments that have occurred in the aftermath of deadly violence at a Virginia rally by white nationalists (all times local):

5 p.m.

The Republican Party of Virginia has apologized for tweeting that Democratic candidate for governor Ralph Northam had “turned his back on his own family’s heritage” by supporting the removal of Confederate monuments.

The state GOP party deleted the messages Wednesday and posted an apology, saying the tweets “were interpreted in a way we never intended.”

Executive Director John Findlay told the Washington Post that the party felt Northam was betraying his family’s legacy because his great-grandfather had fought for the Confederacy.

The tweets were widely panned as offensive. The fate of Confederate monuments has become a prominent issue in Virginia’s gubernatorial contest following a deadly white nationalist rally over a Confederate statue in Charlottesville earlier this month.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. "interpreted in a way we never intended" ie "the dog whistle was in range of normal human hearing"

"Our white supremacy message was a bit too obvious. It's the Trump effect - our interns are getting cocky about being openly bigoted. They will be punished until they can signal to our base without being called out in public."

[jcmaine72]

8. What was the point of deleting the tweets? It's not as if the average rethug is repelled by...

...racist invective. Quite the contrary.