Wow, kudos to dad.
Be sure to have the will changed this week. Specifically exclude the little fucker.
A pox on 4chan and other such wretched hives of scum and villainy.
I feel for the rest of the family.
You can tell dad is not a Republican. If he was he would be goose stepping along with junior.
At this point I question the motives and humanity of any right winger. They’re all guilty as sin.
In the stories I know, the denoument would have the son shoveling the family into an oven. Just saying… we’d better hope these Nazi fuckers are put down.
Two things really stand out here: one, that he equates his silence with his son’s fascism, and two, that he backs his words with specific actions.
(A quibble with the headline - the dad denounced his son’s words and actions, not the son himself. A small point, but he left the door open for the son to renounce his path and return to his family. No “dead to me” stuff there.)
Trump: I have found my real son. He seems smart.
Calling a racist a racist has a surprisingly chilling effect on racist behavior. We don’t need to all get along and love each other, but we do need rules, boundaries and standards. Trump has eroded those rules. We had a big Nazi skinhead movement in the 80s, but it didn’t have the sanction of the Reagan gov’t, even if there were many aligned with Reagan who were sympathizers. That a GOP government didn’t support the skinheads and condemned them officially had a chilling effect. That George W. Bush nipped anti-Islamic violence following 9/11 in the bud was also important.
This is different. This is a top-down white nationalist uprising engineered by Steve Bannon and Donald Trump. These Nazis appear to be armed to the teeth, and I believe Bannon is planning to use them as a paramilitary force to advance white nationalism and Trump. Now that the Nazis know that they can outnumber and outgun local police, they will take more liberties. These Nazis have also infiltrated the GOP as well as the WH.
We’ve made progress. It used to be all you had to do to get disowned was smoke dope and listen to Deep Purple.
Or be gay.
I applaud this asshole’s dad’s statement.
“Peter Tefft, my son, is not welcome at our family gatherings any longer.”
Will Trump invite the poor boy to Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-A-Lago?
ETA: We all know how concerned he is about orphans - well, Russian orphans at least.
shit… now that you mention it, probably yes.
I, for one, always assume they get this at home. This was a courageous act by a father.
I have a professional acquaintance going through something similar (but not this extreme) with his only son. Not only is it heartbreaking losing your child to hate and darkness, but then there is the repercussions from your entire circle of friends and family drawn into it.
And even when they resist they act like such obvious orifices that it hurts their cause, if it can be called that.
So son didn’t watch the video, where you hear the guy from up the street, gunning his engine, squealing his tires. Going for it, full speed deliberate. He was not trapped. Lies answer lies.
There is only one side of hate.
Strength and love to his father. May other speak out.
Topic adjacent: Twitter is the go-to place for the Trump/White Supremacy movement. I cancelled my account after the election when Twitter allowed scores of white supremacists accounts to return after “complying with terms of contract.” Imagine the movement and Trump without the Twitter bullhorn. And yes, Twitter is partly to blame for the deaths this weekend. Shameful.
Only if he is rich enough. Trump still LOATHES poor people, no matter the color of their skin.