Ex-Trump delegate: ‘I was naive’ to think America had overcome prejudice against white supremacists

[LiberalArkie]

White nationalist William Johnson speaks to CNN (screen grab)

Is there any other group these days that’s more unfairly maligned than white supremacists? We joke, of course, but that seems to be the argument that former Trump delegate and prominent white nationalist William Johnson made recently in an interview with Buzzfeed.

Specifically, Johnson talked about his harrowing but short-lived experience of being selected as a California delegate for Donald Trump at this year’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Although the Trump campaign quickly moved to distance itself from Johnson after his racist views had been revealed, Johnson had initially held out hope that he’d be embraced so that he could practice his brand of white nationalism in the open and without fear of stigma.

“I was naive,” Johnson told Buzzfeed. “I thought, Gee, I could participate in the electoral process just like everybody else. I thought I could participate and be productive and be a good example for the community and help promote my candidate, but that was not the case.”

Of course, the best way he could be a good example to the community is to not be a white nationalist, but this doesn’t seem to have dawned upon him.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/ex-trump-delegate-i-was-naive-to-think-america-had-overcome-prejudice-against-white-supremacists/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I freely admit to being prejudiced against white supremacists.

So sue me.

[milestogo]

2. Men's rights groups are also unfairly maligned

and their suffering should not be "misunderestimated".

[LeftyMom]

8. That venn diagram is pretty much a circle.

[oberliner]

3. What percent of Trump's supporters are White Nationalists?

Or at least sympathetic to that cause?

[marybourg]

4. Maybe we just need

to practice more political correctness towards these poor maligned souls.

[struggle4progress]

5. "It's still like they all want us white supremacists to drink from separate water fountains!"

[gollygee]

6. Prejudice against white supremacists? What?

Oh my.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. It wouldn't surprise me anymore....

if someone actually said the words in the headlines.