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lapfog_1

(29,193 posts)
3. I thought she was invited to speak at CPAC CCRAP
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 09:04 PM
Feb 2020

haven't heard if she actually spoke there or not.

This is the worst sort of grifting. Create a mirror copycat because you don't have any original ideas.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
4. Per WaPo, 2/28/2020: "Anti-climate activist praises alt-right commentator at CPAC"
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 09:25 PM
Feb 2020

She’s worse than a right-wing manufactured anti-climate-change puppet. She’s a hardcore white nationalist as well. This is where CPAC stands now.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/29/anti-climate-activist-praises-white-nationalist-cpac/%3foutputType=amp
Washington Post
02/28/2020 by Juliet Eilperin and Desmond Butler
Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old German YouTuber whom conservatives have dubbed the “anti-Greta,” expressed support Friday for a Canadian alt-right commentator at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Speaking to reporters at a panel sponsored by the Heartland Institute, a right-leaning think tank based outside Chicago, Seibt argued that climate activists amounted to “climate alarmists.” She said Stefan Molyneux’s comments had been misconstrued by his critics.


The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, has called Molyneux “a skilled propagandist” who “amplifies ‘scientific racism,’ eugenics and white supremacism.” Molyneux, who has hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, “has encouraged thousands of people to adopt his belief in biological determinism, social Darwinism and non-white racial inferiority,”
the group says in an online profile.


At the conference outside Washington, a reporter from Business Insider asked Seibt if she still considered Molyneux an inspiration for her work in light of the following remark of his: “I’ve always been skeptical of the ideas of white nationalism, of identitarianism and white identity. However, I am an empiricist, and I could not help but notice that I could have peaceful, free, easy, civilized, and safe discussions in what is essentially an all-white country.”

“I am still a fan, absolutely,” she replied.


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VOX

(22,976 posts)
7. She's making him sort-of "work" for it.
Sat Feb 29, 2020, 10:46 PM
Feb 2020

Although “work” is a completely foreign concept to 45.

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