A Republican lawmaker in Michigan lost his committee assignment and staff Monday, days after posting an image of a racist ideology on social media.

House Speaker Joe Tate, a Democrat who is Black, said he will not allow the House to be a forum for “racist, hateful and bigoted speech.”

State Rep. Josh Schriver, who is white, shared a post on X — formerly known as Twitter — that showed a map of the world with Black figures greatly outnumbering white figures, along with the phrase, “The great replacement!”

The conspiracy theory says there’s a plot to diminish the influence of white people.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Racist GOP? I don’t understand, they tell us all the time how they ended slavery with Abe Lincoln.

    • spider
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      8 months ago

      …and what they don’t tell us is Lincoln would be excommunicated from today’s GOP.