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Lucylastic -> RE: Oh! Those Ultra Right-Wing Catholics (Again) (1/10/2018 1:00:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: JVoV
Without seeing the actual content displayed on the social media profiles that influenced the school's decision to fire the substitute teacher, I think it would be impossible to judge the issue one way or another.
Or maybe this is karmic payback for that chick that flicked off Trump's entourage.
His twitter feed is a sweetheart
here are a couple of links wit some deeper details.
yahoo isnt worth shit
A substitute teacher at a Catholic school in Maryland has been kicked out of the classroom after his ties to a white supremacist think tank were exposed.
Greg Conte, who also coached field hockey at the Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, was fired from the all-girls college prep school after an anonymous tip was received last October that he helped plan the “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where one woman was killed last summer, BuzzFeed News reports.
“Someone sent me documents from the Atlanta Antifascists that showed Greg Ritter was Greg Conte and connected the dots to his work with Richard Spencer,” school president Kathleen Ryan Preeble said. “We immediately started to work on this and within 48 hours contacted Mr. Conte directly and he confirmed it and then we terminated him.”
In a letter to parents on Thursday, Prebble confirmed Conte’s connection to the National Policy Institute, saying Conte was using an “alternate identity in his work with this atrocious group.”
“As for his potential impact on our girls, I conducted an investigation at the time of his firing and determined there was no reason to think that he negatively influenced any of our girls with his philosophy,” Prebble’s letter read, according to a copy obtained by WJLA. “It appears that at the time he was focused on maintaining an appropriate persona for our school environment.”
Conte, using the alias Greg Ritter, identifies himself on Twitter as the director of operations for the National Policy Institute, which bills itself as an independent organization dedicated to the “heritage, identity, and future of people of European descent in the United States and around the world” and a “central and indispensable” component of the alt-right movement.
Spencer is the organization’s president and creative director, according to its website, while Conte also works as part of Spencer’s security team, The Hill reports.
Conte, meanwhile, defended his philosophy during an interview Friday, making the ignorant claim that “diversity leads to social problems,” as well as conflict and war.
“What do you say to people who say social problems will rise regardless of if there’s diversity?” a reporter asked.
“Well that’s true, they will arise,” Conte replied. “It’s just going to be worse if there’s diversity.”
https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/substitute-teacher-axed-after-ties-to-alt-right-think-tank-exposed/
A teacher at Maryland’s Academy of the Holy Cross has been fired after the school discovered evidence he is a member of a white supremacist group.
Greg Conte, a substitute teacher and field hockey and track coach at the all-girls Catholic school, was reportedly fired in October, but the school sent a letter alerting families of the firing just last week.
Conte appears to use the name "Gregory Ritter" on Twitter, where he has posted a number of controversial tweets that could be considered racist and anti-Semitic, including one that said “Hitler did not commit any crimes,” according to Washington, D.C.’s Fox 5.
“Prior to his firing, he was successfully using an alternate identity in his work with his atrocious group,” school president and CEO Kathleen Prebble wrote in the letter. “As for his potential impact on our girls, I conducted an investigation at the time of his firing and determined there was no reason to think that he negatively influenced any of our girls with his philosophy.”
Conte works for prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute and is a part of Spencer’s security team. He attended the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last summer where one woman was killed.
Conte told Fox 5 that he does not have any regrets about his involvement in the group after being fired from the school.
“The school’s just trying to protect its own position, I get why they’re doing that,” Conte said. “They are put in an awkward position where they have employed somebody with whom they had no problem, and whose views did not at all adversely affect their school’s operations.”
Students described the discovery of Conte’s alt-right ties as “shocking,” with one telling Fox 5, “I wouldn’t think that in this century that there’s still people like that out there.”
In a statement to The Hill, the Academy of the Holy Cross said it only made the issue public after Conte did.
"He was not fired after students discovered his ‘alt-right’ connection, he was fired in October after the school discovered his ‘alt-right’ connection. Following standard employment law and policies, we did not make this issue public until Mr. Conte made it an issue for himself. Our president communicated this information with our families on Thursday after Mr. Conte had made the information public and his social media postings were found by members of our community," the statement read.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/367882-maryland-school-fires-teacher-over-connections-to-alt-right
Gregory Conte, a former teacher and field hockey coach at the all-girl Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington, was given the boot in October after Kathleen Prebble, the school's president, confirmed he was a member of the "alt-right," a school spokeswoman said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/md-catholic-school-teacher-alt-right-views-fired-article-1.3742883
He used the name “Gregory Ritter” on his personal Twitter account, and his description said he’s the director of operations at the National Policy Institute, which white supremacist Richard Spencer runs.
Links to “Alt-Right Politics” podcasts on altright.com are often shared on his page as well.
Prebble informed families about Conte's firing last Thursday, after his social media posts were found by members of the community, the spokeswoman said.
"Following standard employment law and policies, we did not make this issue public until Mr. Conte made it an issue for himself," she said.
Conte told WJLA-TV he wasn’t surprised the school booted him and mentioned he was open about “being pro-Trump, pro-Putin” and being proud of his European ancestry.
“I don’t regret it,” he told WTTG. “I obviously liked working at the school, and I miss everybody, but I understand the political situation and I expected them to act as they did.”
Some students were shocked to learn their teacher had “alt-right” views.
“I’m upset. I didn’t know he had this double life but it’s also shocking because I wouldn’t think that in this century there are people still like that out there,” one student told the station.
Others noticed he had a preference for Russian literature.
“During class, he would read Russian books or books about Putin and stuff like that,” another student said.
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