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Oklahoma official facing recall over white nationalist ties defends marching in Charlottesville

Judd Blevins, who is fighting to keep his seat on the Enid, Oklahoma, City Council, said he was motivated by “the same issues that got Donald Trump elected."

A City Council member in Enid, Oklahoma, defended marching alongside white nationalists in Virginia in 2017 at a public forum Tuesday night where he was questioned about his connections to racist groups.

Judd Blevins, who faces a recall election next week, declined to provide details of his prior white nationalist activism. Asked about the groups he was affiliated with, including Identity Evropa, once one of the largest U.S. white nationalist organizations, Blevins said those groups no longer exist. He also defended his actions.

“If speaking out against what was being done to this country, what is continuing to be done to this country, is a crime, then I would gladly plead guilty to that,” he said.

rockSlayer ,

If speaking out against what was being done to this country, what is continuing to be done to this country, is a crime, then I would gladly plead guilty

Sounds like he’s still a white nationalist that needs to be removed from office.

mosiacmango ,

Yes. Prior to the recall but after his full history came out, the mayor and a city lawyer asked him in a private meeting if he had any current ties to white nationalists. He replied that he “didn’t have to answer that question.”

The mayor, who wants him gone, candidly discussed the above interview, and said that the refusal made it pretty clear that he still does.

MagicShel ,

“Yes, I throw straight arm salutes, denigrate Jewish people, and hang out with my Nazi cosplay community discussing plans for a holocaust reenactment, but Nazis don’t exist any more so that’s fine.”

Witchfire ,
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I would bet money that this guy supports Israel for all the wrong reasons

homesweethomeMrL ,

You mean his bizzarro evangelical Christianity would outweigh his fetid white supremacy beliefs?

I’d take that bet.

nondescripthandle ,

It can be both. Not only do these people want proof of concept for ethnostates but they also like the fact that it keeps the ‘others’ segragated to their state. The fact that this particular ethnostate enacts violence on brown populations is just a big rosy bonus for them.

newthrowaway20 ,

Always playing the victim, these guys.

nondescripthandle ,

Imagine the utopia we’d be living in if white supremecists were the victims even half the time they said they were. Man that sounds neat.

anon6789 ,
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Jaysyn ,
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Judd Blevins, who is fighting to keep his seat on the Enid, Oklahoma, City Council, said he was motivated by “the same issues that got Donald Trump elected."

Bigotry, christofascism & Russian crafted propaganda.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Hey Oklahoma - it’d be super swell if you could convince everyone there to do the right thing here. I mean, you’re not making good headlines a lot, y’know.

FlyingSquid ,
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Oklahoma is such a fucked up state. A huge amount of it is indigenous reservations after that genocidal bastard Jackson forced a large number of people to relocate there, but so many have been killed off that they have a small minority when it comes to political power.

And this is the result.

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