Civil Rights Commission Ousts VT Chair Over Anti-Bush Comments, Nazi Comparison | Talking Points Memo

The conservative-controlled U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ousted the chairman of the agency’s Vermont State Advisory Committee last week over an October column in which he wrote that the Republican gubernatorial candidate’s “Pure Vermont” slogan “raises the specter of Hilter’s Aryan Nation and the Khmer Rouge, where the purifying agent was genocide.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=117339