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Gab impresario and Mastriano spokesman: Jews are not welcome in the conservative movement [1]
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Date: 2022-07-25
Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab
For some time, the religious right has insisted that all it wants is a place for social conservatives at the table. But all too often, when they don’t think the cameras are rolling, they reveal their real goal—they don’ t just want a place at the table, they want to shove everyone else out.
The latest example of this came from Andrew Torba, the founder, CEO, and impresario of Gab, one of the earliest deplorable alternatives to Twitter. Torba, for those who don’t know, envisioned Gab as a platform where free speech would reign supreme. What he has actually served up is a platform that caters to some of the worst people in the world—racists, anti-Semites, white nationalists, QNuts, etc.
Gab recently made headlines when it emerged that Pennsylvania’s cartoonishly extreme Republican candidate for governor, Doug Mastriano, paid Gab $5,000 for what he described as “campaign consulting.” As it turns out, what he really bought was new followers on Gab; every new Gab user’s profile is set by default to follow Mastriano’s profile. Apparently Mastriano didn’t seem to mind that the gunman in the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh—the worst anti-Semitic attack on this nation’s shores, ever—was a prolific Gab user.
The fact that Mastriano chose to associate with a platform that traffics in such bile would be reason enough by itself to make him unfit to be governor, even without his open and unashamed promotion of the Big Lie. But Torba was kind enough to provide another. In his world, there is no place for Jews in the conservative movement.
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