THREAD: #OldRickWilsonTweets
Rick Wilson made old tweets fair game. Here's a collection of his hate loaded tweets. Democrats, pundits and politicians have rehabilitated Wilson- as some kind of moral leader. We can't claim moral high ground if we give this bigoted sh*t a pass.
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Rick Wilson foments hate against Muslims.
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Rick Wilson foments hate against Jews and has repeatedly propagated the anti Soros attacks which is an anti Semitic trope.
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Rick Wilson foments transphobia
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Rick Wilson opposed DREAM which provides legal status to undocumented immigrants who came to the US as kids & opposed DADT repeal to allow enlisted LGBT to serve openly. #bigot
8. #OldRickWilsonTweets When Rick Wilson sent out this tweet did he mean to demean all women of Mexican heritage by labeling all Mexican women as poor & as the bottom-of-the-barrel choice for Trump? Why did he chose to single out Mexican women? Why not tweet say Floridian women?
9. #OldRickWilsonTweets Rick Wilson repeatedly uses the word "lesbian" in a condescending, demeaning and insulting manner. Rick Wilson has long normalized and contributed to homophobia.
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What is Rick Wilson's obsession with the word "a*al" and a*al rape? He has repeatedly used it particularly to debase and mock women.
11. #OldRickWilson Christian Nationalists perpetuated the anti Muslim and anti Obama trope that Obama was a Muslim imposter. So did Rick Wilson.
12 Republican bigots like Rick Wilson incessantly stoke racial divisions for political gain. "Fear is easy." he says. "I wanted to scare the living shit out of white people in Pennsylvania & Ohio. Today, they would all be Trump voters I'm sure." Their racism brings power & profit
13. #oldRickWilsonTweets And don't come @ me with "people change" BS. Here is Rick Wilson in August 2017 bragging about the racially charged Reverend Wright anti-Obama ad he produced and taking shots at Obama. Trump had been elected for 9 MONTHS when Rick wrote this.
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