Here's hoping the herd thins out...

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Neo-Confederate Group Moves Ahead with Conference Amid Covid-19 Outbreak

March 30, 2020
By: Hatewatch Staff

Michael Hill has no intention of letting a global pandemic cancel plans for the League of the South’s annual conference.

The 68-year-old Hill, president of the League, posted the following to the group’s website March 18.

“At present, we are doing more than simply ‘monitoring’ the situation. We are actively making plans and raising funds to help our members who are in financial straits, and we are moving ahead with our plans for upcoming events, including our 2020 national conference in late June.”

Hill’s decision goes against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendations against gatherings of more than 10 people. Older adults in particular are likely at higher risk for the disease, the CDC notes. The average age of the League’s state chairmen and national staff is roughly 57.

The League held its annual conference in Wetumpka, Alabama, from 2013 to 2018 at a building owned by former LOS member Mike Whorton. Following Whorton’s departure from the group the 2019 conference was in Pine Level, Alabama.

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https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/03/30/neo-confederate-group-moves-ahead-conference-amid-covid-19-outbreak

[The Magistrate]

1. A Nice Bunch To Have All In One Place, Ma'am

[pat_k]

2. I think we should be better than this. Being a racist doesn't call for a sentence of death.

The fate of COVID-19 deniers is tragic, even if of their own making.

[eleny]

3. And then they return to their home states to spread it further

The spring break phenomenon.

[pat_k]

6. And that magnifies the tragedy.

Anger is an appropriate response -- extreme anger. But I get very uncomfortable when I see a "gloating" about the deaths that are likely to follow the irrational denial of people who refuse to protect themselves (and thereby protect others).

In this case, since it is a planned event, perhaps it can be stopped through force of law.

[catsudon]

5. you're right

when a right winger is infected some people say that's karma, i asked myself, what about the people on our side who is infected? is that karma too?

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[Dagstead Bumwood]

4. They went from Wetumpka straight to Pine Level?

Who can live at that speed?