Trolling for the white supremacist reader
by digby
Here’s the Daily Caller bringing you all the news that’s not fit to print:
Something called the White Student Union at Towson University has announced plans to conduct random nighttime patrols on the school’s campus.
Members of the group say they have taken this task upon themselves to protect the 20,000 or so students who attend the public school in Baltimore County, Maryland from serious crimes such as robbery and sexual assault, according to The Towerlight, Towson’s independent campus newspaper.
That’s nice. But lest you think there is something racist about the “white Student Union’s” concerns, worry not:
“One thing we’re doing at night is to have a male member accompany female members across campus or to night classes,” Commander Heimbach told The Towerlight. “Not because we’re terrified, but in college everyone is focused on themselves. We just want to make campus a better place. If we see a white person commit a crime against a person who is not white, we’re going to assist the person who was attacked every time.”
That’s mighty white of him.
These are not fringy weirdos. They are mainstream conservatives:
“Commander Heimbach” and his troops found their way into the headlines recently when several group members attended the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.
You remember these guys, right?
The accidental media star of CPAC is a bearded North Carolina conservative named Scott Terry. He went a black Republican-run panel titled “Trumping the Race” card and asked an unexpected Socratic question: Were the experts “reaching out to voters at the expense of young white Southern males?” K. Carl Smith, the moderator, started to explain that even Frederick Douglass forgave his slavemaster.
“For giving him shelter?” asked Terry. “And food?”
The rest of the story was told immediately by TPM’s Benjy Sarlin. I was only dimly aware of the mess when I stopped by a happy hour put on by Rick Santorum’s Patriot Voices PAC. After Santorum left, after talking Quantitative Easing over Coronas with a law student, I found a table where a guy in a Confederate flag shirt had set up shop. He was Matthew Heimbach, founder of the White Students at Towson University — the guy sitting next to Scott Terry at the fateful moment. He was reading his smartphone and sharing the news.
“We’re on LGF (Little Green Footballs)!” he said. He showed the phone to Terry and a small group of Marylanders standing around the table. LGF, a blog run by a reformed “anti-jihadist” who now shames white supremacists whenever they make news.Terry was amused and exasperated. “All the minorities agreed with us! All of ’em!” he said. A raw but polite argument had been turned into a shouting match not by them, but after a black female reporter from Voice of Russia started trolling the panelists.
Heimbach fielded phone calls from reporters — “It’s on the front page of The Blaze!” — laughing that his media reputation couldn’t really get any worse. The Southern Poverty Law Center had designated his group a “hate group,” a weird badge of honor.“You look at the SPLC — as fake as they are, they talk about how patriot groups are increasing in the Obama era,” he said. “With a black face in charge of the White House, of the federal government, we know it’s foreign. We know something isn’t right.
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