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Kai Schwemmer, the newly appointed College Republicans of America political director, has made racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist statements while espousing extremist rightwing views on abortion, a Guardian review of livestream recordings can reveal.
Schwemmer said he would accept a world in which slavery was legal if abortion was criminalised, describes himself as “very much an anti-universal suffrage guy” and accepts a supporter’s description of him as “our Mormon Nick Fuentes” – referring to the white nationalist influencer whose platform he streamed on for years.
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...he claims gay men are “weaponizing” gyms “to give you Aids” and celebrates a DNA test he says proved “I’m 0% Jewish”.
...“Do you believe married women have the right to vote? What about single women?”
Schwemmer responded: “I believe they currently have the right to vote. But I’m in favor of probably like a family voting thing. I think that’d probably be a better way to do it.”
“Family voting” is a Christian nationalist proposal to restrict the franchise to male heads of households, who would act as political representatives of their wives and children.
“I’m very much an anti-universal suffrage guy,” Schwemmer added. “I don’t think there’s a good defense for allowing people to vote who don’t take the time to return shopping carts. I think that’s a huge issue. Allowing those people the same leverage in your electoral system as a homeowner. That’s crazy to me.”
You can always find anecdotes of racists. Just, this is a director, people approved of his hiring and many people followed him on streaming and still do...
Kai Schwemmer, the newly appointed College Republicans of America political director, has made racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist statements while espousing extremist rightwing views on abortion, a Guardian review of livestream recordings can reveal.
Schwemmer said he would accept a world in which slavery was legal if abortion was criminalised, describes himself as “very much an anti-universal suffrage guy” and accepts a supporter’s description of him as “our Mormon Nick Fuentes” – referring to the white nationalist influencer whose platform he streamed on for years.
...
...he claims gay men are “weaponizing” gyms “to give you Aids” and celebrates a DNA test he says proved “I’m 0% Jewish”.
...“Do you believe married women have the right to vote? What about single women?”
Schwemmer responded: “I believe they currently have the right to vote. But I’m in favor of probably like a family voting thing. I think that’d probably be a better way to do it.”
“Family voting” is a Christian nationalist proposal to restrict the franchise to male heads of households, who would act as political representatives of their wives and children.
“I’m very much an anti-universal suffrage guy,” Schwemmer added. “I don’t think there’s a good defense for allowing people to vote who don’t take the time to return shopping carts. I think that’s a huge issue. Allowing those people the same leverage in your electoral system as a homeowner. That’s crazy to me.”
You can always find anecdotes of racists. Just, this is a director, people approved of his hiring and many people followed him on streaming and still do...
