This Nazi Assface Calling the Patriots "The Alt-Right's Team" Can Cut the Shit Right Now
Politico – Though they play in deep-blue Massachusetts, the Patriots had already come to be associated with Donald Trump. …
[Richard] Spencer was a Trump supporter, but for him, the Patriots were more than just the president’s team. When he watched the Patriots, he could see a white quarterback, Brady, pass to a trio of wide receivers who were also white: Julian Edelman, Chris Hogan and Danny Amendola. “Rooting for the Pats!” he tweeted, with the Patriots trailing 28-3. “1/ Belichick & Brady support Trump 2/ Three White widereceivers (sic) 3/ Consistently NFL’s whitest team 4/ ATL is dreadful.”
The Patriots then staged the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. Spencer was giddy, and a flurry of tweets followed, punctuated by a GIF of Brady—who Spencer called an “Aryan Avatar”—kissing his German-Brazilian supermodel wife, Giselle Bundchen, with the caption, “For the White race, it’s never over.” Spencer got the response he was looking for. Most fans were horrified, while his supporters retweeted him thousands of times. … “It was like the alt-right won the Super Bowl,” Spencer told me recently. … “What the alt-right does is find the pressure point and bring it to the fore,” Spencer said. “I do think there is an element of white consciousness when fans watch Julian Edelman score a touchdown.”
But for Spencer, there’s a twist: He was actually wrong about his charge. The Patriots aren’t the “whitest” team in the NFL. … Minnesota, Green Bay, Cincinnati and Cleveland had the most white players; the majority of teams, including the Patriots, had between 15 and 20. … I called Spencer to deliver the news. “Really?” he asked, his voice registering a twinge of disappointment. …
As the information continued to sink in, Spencer seemed almost surprised by the power of his own Super Bowl tweets. “The fact is I tweeted things and they resonated for a reason—no one questioned them,” he said. …“There’s a whole lot of people who hate the Patriots and want anything to throw against them.”
First of all, I have to give credit to Politico. Generally speaking they strike me as way more to the left than I am. And when I saw their headline suggesting the Pats are the alt-right’s team I was ready to come in with all my constitutionally protected guns blazing. But to their credit they passed on taking the easy, clickbaity, path of least resistance by just saying “This white supremacist shithead says he likes the Patriots, therefore Boston is racist,” like most lefty sites would. So kudos to them for not only not grabbing the low-hanging fruit, but for exposing this supremely punchable nematode for being a fake Pats fan. And for ruining his day by pointing out the team he pretends to root for has the same racial makeup as the Falcons and most of the NFL.
I hate that it still comes to that. That we’ve got reporters out there combing through rosters and counting players along racial lines. You’d like to think we’re passed that in 2017, but I guess it’s never going away. At least not as long as their are demagogues like this little Brown Shirt on the far right and Bomani Jones on the left judging the Patriots receiving corps by the color of their skin, and not by the content of their catches. So hopefully Spencer will be so appalled by the Patriots colorblind obsession with getting great players and unwillingness to pick the ones that will make him and his Master Race fringe lunatics happy that he’ll us the hell alone and just become a Vikings or Packers fan. Fuck off and die, troll.
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