Goggin also reported on other easily identifiable figures with ties to neo-Nazis he saw at CPAC, including one “with an official badge” from the event.

Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”

Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.

“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote…

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    9 months ago

    Maybe he just meant they weren’t “Nazis,” but rather “Neo-Nazis” or some other type of white nationalist of a more modern vintage. Your Pinochet admirers, neo-confederates, and so forth. Barely anyone at CPAC was even an adult during WWII and certainly no one at the young fascist mixer.

    • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
      10·
      9 months ago

      “If it didn’t come from the NSDAP organization of Germany, it’s not a real Nazi. Just a sparkling eugenicist.”

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Young fascist mixer

      Haha, now I have an image in my mind of Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes nervously and awkwardly flirting with female Russian agents over malt shakes.

      • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
        2·
        9 months ago

        Fuentes has a brainworm infestation so severe that he flipped out when one of his group’s members found a girlfriend.