Current Events > The Diaper Conservatives are accused of racial bias and breaking campaign law

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https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-conservative-nonprofit-that-seeks-to-transform- college-campuses-faces-allegations-of-racial-bias-and-illegal-campaign-activity

As Turning Points profile has risen, so has scrutiny of its funding and tactics. Internal documents that I obtained, as well as interviews with former employees, suggest that the group may have skirted campaign-finance laws that bar charitable organizations from participating in political activity. Former employees say that they were directed to work with prominent conservatives, including the wife of the Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in aid of Republican Presidential candidates in 2016. Perhaps most troubling for an organization that holds up conservatives as the real victims of discrimination in America, Turning Point USA is also alleged to have fostered an atmosphere that is hostile to minorities. Screenshots provided to me by a source show that Crystal Clanton, who served until last summer as the groups national field director, sent a text message to another Turning Point employee saying, i hate black people. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.

Clanton, who resigned after serving as the groups second-highest official for five years, at first declined to comment. Im no longer with Turning Point and wish not to be a part of the story, Clanton told me over e-mail. Later, in a second e-mail, she said, I have no recollection of these messages and they do not reflect what I believe or who I am and the same was true when I was a teenager.

John Ryan ORourke, the former Turning Point employee who received the text messages from Clanton, requested that the messages not be used in any article or background information concerning Turning Point and declined to comment on them. Kirk said in an e-mail that Turning Point assessed the situation and took decisive action within 72 hours of being made aware of the issue. Soon after, Clanton left the organization.

While Kirk served as the public face of Turning Point, Clanton, its former field director, acted as its hands-on boss, according to former employees. In a 2016 book that Kirk co-authored with Brent Hamachek, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, he described Clanton as the best hire we ever could have made. He called her integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as its chief operating officer. He added, Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.

Former Turning Point employees say that the organization was a difficult workplace and rife with tension, some of it racial. Gabrielle Fequiere, a former Turning Point employee, told me that she was the only African-American hired as a field director when she worked with the group, three years ago. In looking back, I think it was racist, she said. At the time, I was blaming myself, and I thought I did something wrong. Fequiere, who now works as a model, recalled that the young black recruits that she brought into the organization suddenly found themselves disinvited from the groups annual student summit, and that when she herself attended, she watched speakers there who spoke badly about black women having all these babies out of wedlock. It was really offensive. (Kirk, through a spokesman, denied that any such incidents occurred, and said, These accusations are absolutely baseless and even absurd.)
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In an effort to mock campus opposition to hate speech, members of the Turning Point chapter at Kent State University staged a protest last fall in which they appeared on campus wearing adult diapers and sucking on pacifiers while proclaiming Safe Spaces are for Children. The protest stirred widespread ridicule, and Kirks spokesman said that he disapproved of the display and later issued guidelines against other chapters repeating it.

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What's a diaper conservative
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glitteringfairy posted...

What's a diaper conservative

These fine folks
https://twitter.com/TPUSAatKent/status/921005124947988480
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glitteringfairy posted...

What's a diaper conservative

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1305518-turning-point-usa
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Antifar posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

What's a diaper conservative

These fine folks
https://twitter.com/TPUSAatKent/status/921005124947988480

Lmao.

On topic though I love the "whatever I sent through a text in no way represents my beliefs or who I am".

Nothing's more laughable than idiots who can't even stand by their own actions/beliefs.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Antifar posted...

glitteringfairy posted...

What's a diaper conservative

These fine folks
https://twitter.com/TPUSAatKent/status/921005124947988480

Lmao.

On topic though I love the "whatever I sent through a text in no way represents my beliefs or who I am".

Nothing's more laughable than idiots who can't even stand by their own actions/beliefs.

Idiot does something dumb and gets called out on it:

"It was only a joke, you are the true idiot for thinking I was serious"

There's no accountability anymore when they can just play the "I was just joking" card on everything that has negative feedback.
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its just a prank, bro!
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Tmaster148 posted...

"It was only a joke, you are the true idiot for thinking I was serious"

I know people on here who used those exact words when called on their bullshit
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