Wilmo Mayor Picks a Great Day to Endorse White Nationalism
One of these two things happened:
A) Like all great leaders, Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki blamed a staffer after getting heat for retweeting white nationalist trope.
B)Twitter is hard. It’s confusing. The kids seem to like it though, so… *click* Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki’s staffer retweeted white nationalist trope by mistake.
Damn! I can’t get past the paywall. I’ll have to head over to the library tomorrow to check out the article.
“A social media account of Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki retweeted a trope over St. Patrick’s Day weekend related to Irish Americans that is popular among white nationalists.
Late Monday, the Mayor’s Office released a statement saying the post was “inadvertently retweeted making it appear as though he had shared the offensive tweet.” Later in the statement, Purzycki called it an “innocent mistake.”
Purzycki’s official Twitter account retweeted, or shared on his Twitter feed, a statement that was posted in reply to a picture of Purzycki with Sen. Chris Coons and Gov. John Carney at Wilmington’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.
The mayor’s retweet was deleted after his office received questions from The News Journal. The Mayor’s Office said it has since reset the Twitter account’s password and “added additional authentication controls.”
The statement, reposted by a right-wing Twitter account, was a screenshot of another Tweet that saluted “the Irish people [whose] families were enslaved, came to the US for a better life, worked in factories & then got called ‘privileged’ & blamed for slavery by beta male, soy drinking hypocrites & depressed feminists.”
The person who posted the original tweet said in an email to The News Journal that, “I’m not a nationalist,” and went on to write that he has offered solutions to curb extremism.”
Man, John Rago, who I like, sure didn’t hesitate to toss Mayor Mike’s ‘social media’ guru under the bus. A mayor needs a social media guru?
The mayor’s social media assistant is always welcome in the Bunker.
Looking at that picture, I’d say it is a safe bet that Purzycki has never tweeted.
Isn’t white supremacism the reason mike purzycki has lost previous runs for office?
Not sure if he’s lost previous races. I think he served on NCC Council decades ago, representing the Newark area.
The Irish weren’t white until white people needed the Irish to help them outnumber the Italians and Poles, who then took a couple of generations to be called white in their turn. Even Jews were eventually called white, which is how you get Stephen Miller in the White House.
Pride in the culture of your ancestors is pride unearned. You didn’t do anything to earn it except be born.
And even then it was, at best, a grudging acceptance of the Irish, because in the view of the WASPs they remained one of the lower classes because of their Catholicism. America was not the land for all whites, just the white and Protestants. The barriers were systemic and institutional and encompassed Jews and Catholics, among other religions. This bias was the genesis of pipes and drums for fireman and policeman, because the Irish were only allowed jobs thought to be beneath the upper class WASPs.
The land of the free and home of the brave, has a long and sordid history, from the time we seized land from its rightful owners by hook, crook, and genocide continuing to today. There are a number of great moments in our history as well as a large number of terrible moments. We would do well to remember that achieving our manifest destiny was at an untold cost of lives and liberty for many.
I sometimes think that because things like the Holocaust and slavery were so abhorrent, everything else is dismissed because it pales in comparison. What the country did to Native Americans, Jews, Irish, et al. while not reaching the same level as the Holocaust and slavery, still created misery for those who found themselves under its white, Protestant heel.
https://youtu.be/gESuHAB8zpI
The Mayor is carving up Wilmington like a Turkey for his investor buddies. He’s eminent domain and pay to play every day all the way that’s what his campaign war chest says.
Pull his campaign fund and see for your self.
Thanks, Sherlock.
He only ran because the bankers made it clear they would pull out of town if he didn’t.
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Bittle ain’t buying it –
Matthew Bittle Retweeted Mike Purzycki
I totally believe the RT was an accident/based off carelessness. But this isn’t how Twitter works. I don’t think anyone “manipulated” it. #netDE
https://twitter.com/JohnRambo_USA/status/11074
Meanwhile, there are five posts of this same awkward meme https://twitter.com/wilmingtondegov/status/1107465470649733120
All the years I worked in radio I pissed off my bosses because I wouldn’t open a twitter account. My reasoning was simple: I never heard of anyone writing a tweet so good it got them a job. But I heard of dozens of people who wrote a tweet so bad it lost them one.
They could not assail this logic.