@LiebermanForGa accused @staceyabrams of “candidate suppression”—REALLY? Attention is on the 2 senate races in GA--you've probably heard of Lieberman because he refuses to drop out and support @ReverendWarnock in the special election to (hopefully) replace @SenatorLoeffler #gapol https://twitter.com/LiebermanForGa/status/1309230681420173314

And you may have also heard that Lieberman wrote a “novel” in response to Charlottesville, a self-published book that @LiebermanForGa claims is “an honest examination of enduring racism against Blacks.”

In fact, it is jaw-droppingly racist.

OMG, it is SO MUCH WORSE than I had imagined. The narrator is a "fictional" version of Lieberman and he recounts a (fictional?) story told to him by an old man, Benno, in 2017, who claims to have "owned" an enslaved man, Lucius, for most of the 20th c

As a historian, this "novel" reads troublingly like an enslaver's diary. The narrator, Mordecai Weisman (aka Lieberman), listens sympathetically to Benno & gets weirdly obsessed with the story. We don't get any critical analysis of the enslaver or his story

Benno—the man who “owns” an (imaginary?) Black man—is a “good guy,” while the Klan are the “bad guys.” This is despite the fact that he reveals that as a UGA frat-bro he made Lucius sleep on the floor and use his dirty shirts as a pillow, and then drunkenly tripped over him

Some of the media have claimed that Lieberman self-published this book before he decided to run, but there are some passages that suggest that he wrote the book *for* his campaign. This is Benno’s reflection on the Klan (presumably Lieberman's response to Charlottesville):

Here is Benno’s description of a Klan meeting that he and Lucius stumbled upon in a parking lot (note the description of the Klan makes the narrator cringe, but he (and Lieberman?) remains utterly infatuated by Benno’s story of his “friendship” with Lucius):

The takeaway is tiki-torch racism is bad, but paternalistic slavery is… ok?? In the story, Benno—the ENSLAVER—has “no racial animus.”

Weisman/Lieberman has a moment of self-reflexivity; but the real moral is, “listen to your daughters” (Lieberman didn’t):

#VoteWarnock #gapol