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.”

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    It’s weird that you think this would scare me. Like do you not get that? That’s the central conceit here - we fundamentally disagree on the idea “Muslims are scary”

    You should, because a lot of them will wage unrestricted warfare against you. They love naive people like you, makes it easy for them.

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      See this “othering” of 2 billion or so people is what I meant when I said that we have substantial character differences.

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        Oh, poor 2 milliard (long scale, deal with it) people. If Norway of 5,5 million people can’t handle taking in those 2 milliards there must be something wrong with Norways way of handling immigration. /s