NRA and Ted Nugent Inspired Hate Mongering and Bigotry

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Last week, I found myself in the company of a distinguished group of people I would usually be very proud to call my allies: Michael Bloomberg, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Rahm Emanuel, Barbara Boxer, Senator Blumenthal and others. Unfortunately, we were brought "together" in an anti-Semitic Facebook post by long-time NRA Board Member and "pit bull", Ted Nugent. Besides our faces and our names, the post included Israeli flags near or over our faces and the following message: "Know these punks. They hate freedom, they hate good over evil, they would deny us the basic human right to self defense & to KEEP & BEAR ARMS while many of them have tax paid hired ARMED security! Know them well. Tell every1 you know how evil they are. Let us raise maximum hell to shut them down!"

Nugent essentially called upon an armed following (NRA members) to take action against me and eleven other mostly current or former elected officials. Ted Nugent has long represented the NRA and they owe us an explanation of exactly what they're conspiring to encourage their armed followers to do with respect to "shutting me down."

This is not the first time Ted Nugent has publicly made outrageous accusations and encouraged violence against NRA opponents, and given the NRA's lack of response and long history of making similar hate-mongering public comments, it won't be his last time either. Less than a month ago, Ted Nugent called for the hanging of President Obama and Hillary Clinton for their supposed wrongdoing during the 2012 Benghazi terrorist attacks. And just two weeks ago, he referred to Hillary Clinton as a "criminal ass b**ch" on his Facebook. Regarding Apartheid, Nugent was quoted in the Detroit Free Press saying "Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man... They are different. They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands...These are different people."

The fact that the NRA continues to support board members that behave in this way is shocking. I sit on the boards of multiple organizations and I know that we have ousted board members for much less than Nugent's posts. Other organizations do not put up with this type of behavior either, just last week Mark Zuckerberg, on behalf of Facebook, publicly apologized for the Tweet of one of his board directors. In fact, repercussions for social media quips are so common that there are Buzzfeed lists dedicated to them. If you do an internet search for "job loss tweets" you will find dozens of examples of people losing their employment and board positions over offensive tweets and social media posts, most of these people even apologized prior to being fired. Nugent, on the other hand, has made no apology and the NRA doesn't seem to care.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-rosenthal/nra-and-ted-nugent-inspir_b_9263108.html