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Chip Warden
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writer of software & prose; ttrpg player; sf fan; he/they/him/them; blocker extraordinaire of racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, tech gatekeepers, and content hosted on substack; hometown: Seymour's Bay, NJ
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Portraying Vance as refusing to take sides about bigotry within the MAGA coalition is misleading since he, along with Trump, is not a neutral observer but a leading promulgator of bigotry.
December 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Link to @nytimes.com article about Vance’s speech.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...
Vance Refuses to Take Sides in G.O.P. Fight Over Bigotry
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Behold the Vice President of the United States “refusing to take sides.“
He said Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Black Democrat in Texas running for Senate had a “street girl personal” that “is about as real as her nails.” Mr. Vance also continued to target Somali Americans after weeks of Mr. Trump’s insulting the immigrant community from the White House. Mr. Vance said Omar Fateh, a MN state senator of Somali descent, has previously run for mayor of “Mogadishu.” “I mean Minneapolis,” Mr. Vance said of the city with a large Somali American populiation. “Little Freudian slip there.”
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
JD Vance has unambiguously picked his side.
When the emergence of a Telegram group chat showed Republican elected leaders and young party activists routinely using racist and homophobic language, as well as invoking Hitler, Mr. Vance compared them to “anything said in a college group chat.” He also embraced false claims about Haitian Americas in the 2024 race, declining to condemn those who spread racist conspiracy theories. And on Sunday, Mr. Vance declined to issue warning of extremist figures like other speakers at the conference, instead arguing that the coalition was open to all as long as they “love America.”
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Um, doesn’t Vance welcoming bigots into his coalition constitute “picking a side”?
But as vice president, Mr. Vance has on multiple occasions refused to pick a side in interparty fights over bigotry.
December 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Link to @npr.org article on Vance’s speech:
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Vance refuses to set red lines over bigotry at Turning Point USA's convention
Vice President JD Vance acknowledged the controversies that dominated the Turning Point conference, but he did not define any boundaries for the conservative movement besides patriotism.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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larryglickman.bsky.social
Andrew Johnson’s 1866 Veto of the Civil Rights Act set the template for the language of racial inversion, when he claimed “the bill was made to operate in favor of the colored and against the white race.”
Andrew Johnson, 1866: “In all our history…no such system as that contemplated by the details of this bill has ever before been proposed or adopted. They establish for the security of the colored race safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race. In fact, the distinction of race and color is by the bill made to operate in favor of the colored and against the white race.”
December 22, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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ruralanarchy.bsky.social
He's still alive?
December 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM