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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.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: adamcarlson; alabama; allisonpecorin; rachelscott; racistscott; tommytuberville; trishturner
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To: Coronal

Bunch of BS.


21 posted on 07/11/2023 4:54:34 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Yes it is.


22 posted on 07/11/2023 5:05:32 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Coronal

What a tube steak.


23 posted on 07/11/2023 5:06:07 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: Coronal

How effing stupid is this. I’m white and I’m a nationalist.

Hard to believe how vapidly partisan the leftwing news media has become.


24 posted on 07/11/2023 5:07:09 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Responsibility2nd

Tuberville is dumb as a sack of rocks. He’s an embarrassment to the state of Alabama imo….


25 posted on 07/11/2023 5:16:30 PM PDT by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: Coronal

How about Black Nationalists, Mexican Nationalists, Jewish Nationalists, are they also “racist” or is the “racist” label only applied to “White Nationalists”?


26 posted on 07/11/2023 5:19:40 PM PDT by euram (allALL)
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To: Coronal

I call bullsh*t...Tommy aint no crawyfish


27 posted on 07/11/2023 5:21:42 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Coronal

Coward, the left volunteer on us being cowards and we don’t disappoint them...


28 posted on 07/11/2023 5:35:15 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Mariner
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.

That is what I've been discussing with my wife (she's Chinese-American and dislikes what some Chinese groups do). BLM members are racist, because they promote blackness at the detriment of other races. Same goes for La Raza members, they're racist. Likewise for other groups that promote Chinese, Korean, Arab values. They're all racist. White Nationalists should not be targeted for criticism unless one is willing to criticize other racial groups.

It is human nature to gather with your own kind and promote those values you're familiar with. Now if your group attacks and harms people of different races, now that's evil racism. (Blacks come to mind, always in the news.)

29 posted on 07/11/2023 5:59:05 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: roadcat

I had a white student that came down from Vermont to take concentrated Physics and Chemistry at Memphis State for the Summer. He said he didn’t have a racist bone in his body and chastised the rest of us for our beliefs. He got a part time job at a liquor store on Chelsea Avenue in Memphis and before the semester was over he was racist.


30 posted on 07/11/2023 6:18:40 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is no such thing. A democrat strawman.


31 posted on 07/11/2023 6:39:39 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: tomkat

FBI hoods got to him.


32 posted on 07/11/2023 6:43:34 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Coronal

Disappointed with Tuberville caving on this.

“White nationalist” is a buzz word that dog whistles “racist” to racists. Tommy is allowing the left to define terms - always a mistake.


33 posted on 07/11/2023 7:06:40 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Coronal

What?


34 posted on 07/11/2023 7:08:47 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Coronal
I'm not sure there are any GOP senators that are worth a damn. They are such weak sisters, taking orders from Chuck Schumer.
35 posted on 07/11/2023 7:13:05 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: Coronal

In the history of this country the real white racists were the KKK and democRATS all. Tuberville is just another RINO coward. White nationalists are folks who believe in MAGA, patriots .


36 posted on 07/11/2023 7:15:31 PM PDT by kenmcg (ti hi o)
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To: Coronal

I am white and I am an unapologetic nationalist - I dearly love this nation, its ideals and what it HS done to save my family from mass murder and effective serfdom in Europe and Russia during the 29th century. But not racist.

Those claiming that all whites who are nationalists are, because of that combination, racist are, themselves, the actual racist. Either that, or they are knowingly lying because they are a bunch of cucks.


37 posted on 07/11/2023 8:49:54 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Ancesthntr; Coronal

Uh….has done,,,

20th century.

I guess that I’m a fat-fingered white nationalist. :>)


38 posted on 07/11/2023 8:54:48 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Coronal
"Can you explain why you continue to insist that white nationalists are American?"

That is a very strange question. What else would they be? French? Russian? Burmese? If you accept the current line that America is a white racist country, surely that would make white nationalists and white racists very American.

Just exactly what a "white nationalist" is, isn't obvious. The media is in the business of throwing labels around. They ought to be called to account and asked to explain what they mean by them. But if you are a politician you better know what they want those labels to mean or you can get into trouble.

39 posted on 07/11/2023 9:01:07 PM PDT by x
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To: Coronal

I wish he would have said, “people who self identify as White Nationalists,”; makes a world of difference, who applies the label …


40 posted on 07/11/2023 9:53:52 PM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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