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Tommy Tuberville reverses his claim that white nationalists are unfairly labeled racist
ABC News ^ | July 11, 2023 | Trish Turner, Adam Carlson, and Allison Pecorin

Posted on 07/11/2023 4:19:23 PM PDT by Coronal

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday said, simply and for the first time, that "white nationalists are racists."

That remark to reporters marked a reversal from days of controversial comments to the contrary, which had drawn criticism from Democratic leaders and head-scratching from some of Tuberville's Republican colleagues.

Earlier on Tuesday, the senator told ABC News that white nationalists shouldn't all be labeled as "racist" while also insisting he opposes racism.

Tuberville, a former college football coach first elected in 2020, had been pressed on his stance by ABC's Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott, who asked him, "Can you explain why you continue to insist that white nationalists are American?"

Scott was referring to commets Tuberville made first in May and then again earlier this week, after he was initially asked about military readiness and whether white nationalists should be able to serve.

"Listen, I'm totally against racism. And if Democrats want to say that white nationalists are racist, I'm totally against that, too," he told Scott on Tuesday, hours before changing his view.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: adamcarlson; alabama; allisonpecorin; rachelscott; racistscott; tommytuberville; trishturner
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1 posted on 07/11/2023 4:19:23 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal

Nonsense and idiocy is pushed and promoted.


2 posted on 07/11/2023 4:22:27 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Coronal
What he should have said he against Dems and liberals labeling people white nationalist without any proof they belong to a white nationalist organizations. If you agree with the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action you are called a racist and white nationalist.
3 posted on 07/11/2023 4:24:41 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: Coronal
What a 

 


4 posted on 07/11/2023 4:24:43 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Coronal

Define “White Nationalist.”

I dare you.


5 posted on 07/11/2023 4:29:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Coronal
ABC News is a pile of garbage. He gets misquoted and then misquoted again with these garbage "journalists" saying he changed his mind.

The morons never understood what he was trying to explain because they never wanted to. They are disgusting.

6 posted on 07/11/2023 4:31:09 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Any number of Russians could haman ve dropped that bag in the white-house....)
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To: Coronal

Ugh!! Say the line Duke.


7 posted on 07/11/2023 4:31:10 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! AMERICA FIRST! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! )
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To: martinidon

Yes!


8 posted on 07/11/2023 4:32:37 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her lbegs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Coronal

Nationalists who happen to be white are still nationalists.
They are not necessarily ‘supremacists’, or the other epithet.

Get a pre-2000 dictionary, Tommy. Please.


9 posted on 07/11/2023 4:33:30 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Coronal

“Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on Tuesday said, simply and for the first time, that “white nationalists are racists.” “


Republican “conservatives” are weak fags who cave to Democrat demands.

Surprise, surprise.


10 posted on 07/11/2023 4:36:07 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Coronal

“white nationalists are racists”

I suspect most people posting here are White, and also support the country. That’s what DC does to someone who hasn’t studied THE ENEMY (and it’s just not the Dems who are the enemy).


11 posted on 07/11/2023 4:38:20 PM PDT by BobL (Trump has all the right Enemies; DeSantis has all the wrong Friends)
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To: Coronal

“”white nationalists are racists.”

This White Nationalist does not care a whit what Tommy Tuberville thinks.

BTW: Every human on earth is racist. It’s encoded into our DNA as a survival feature.


12 posted on 07/11/2023 4:38:44 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Coronal

So, any pro-American person who happens to be white is racist?

Therefore, any pro-American person who happens to be black is also racist?

And, the same goes for an American Indian, I’m thinking like the Marine Navajo Code Talkers? For the awesome regiment of Japanese in Europe, these guys are all racist too?

The only racists I’ve ever met are Rats.


13 posted on 07/11/2023 4:39:26 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Coronal

Perhaps instead he should have stated that “black nationalists” are also racist.


14 posted on 07/11/2023 4:40:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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15 posted on 07/11/2023 4:41:28 PM PDT by Bratch
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Why wouldn’t a White nationalist also be American?


16 posted on 07/11/2023 4:44:06 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Coronal

Ok - BLM are racists. How about that?


17 posted on 07/11/2023 4:46:41 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Mariner
BTW: Every human on earth is racist. It’s encoded into our DNA as a survival feature.

We are designed to have affinity towards those who are related to us.

Go back a hundred generations or so (to the time of the Roman Empire) and most people of European descent can find at least one common ancestor.

18 posted on 07/11/2023 4:48:17 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
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To: Coronal
I'm white and I'm a nationalist and I rationally discriminate, which does NOT make me a racist.

So FU Tuber !

19 posted on 07/11/2023 4:53:18 PM PDT by tomkat (SOTU = FUBAR)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Define “White Nationalist.”

It's a term coined by the Left--like "Saturday night special" and "climate denier."

20 posted on 07/11/2023 4:53:49 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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