The “White Boy Summer” mantra being celebrated by conservatives is dangerous rhetoric linked to white supremacy, claimed far left MSNBC host Joy Reid.
The deranged anchor made the claim on her show Tuesday, alleging young conservatives attending the Turning Point USA conference over the weekend unwittingly espoused white supremacy when they received pink hats being thrown into the crowd emblazoned with the slogan.
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“White Boy Summer (WBS) quickly took off as a hilarious meme and people had a legit good time with it,” Reid said, adding, “But it wasn’t long before the thirsty far right and white supremacists decided it was time to cancel everyone’s fun and culturally appropriate the cultural appropriation for their own purposes, using the phrase in their online memes to try to attract unsuspecting white youth to their cause.”
Reid went on to cite the Anti-Defamation League, claiming the phrase had been co-opted by some social media users inserting white supremacist references or neo-Nazi symbols, such as swastikas, into WBS memes.
“Other White Boy Summer promoters are tactically watering down their content to attract less extreme users and disseminate their content widely,” she claimed.
“How many in that Detroit audience grasping at the pink hats knew what they were signing up for?” the unhinged host asked, as though she’d made her case.
Getting to the point, Reid proclaimed, “At this stage, White Boy Summer is no longer a funny Chet Hanks meme. It’s an explicit white supremacist message.”
“No different than when Trump says immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country, or that blacks like him because he’s a criminal, or black run cities like Baltimore, Chicago, or Detroit or any city run by black person is like living in hell.”
Reid’s misrepresentation of the phrase went beyond the ADL’s, which at least acknowledged, “It should be noted that non-extremists also continue to use the [WBS] phrase, but in largely non-hateful contexts.”
With minority support surging for Donald Trump, it’s clear Democrats and their media counterparts are dusting off their old strategies of slandering their political opponents as racist.