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sabotabbyI can't put the counter up because I'm not sure when this photo was taken, but it does seem to be undeniably a picture of the Honourable Wife-Beater hanging around with an actual neo-Nazi. Not in the distant past, when he was just a stupid kid from Etobicoke, but recently.
That's Jon Latvis from RaHoWa (short for Racial Holy War) and he is not exactly quiet about his politics. The photo appears to have been posted by Latvis himself. If you can't read the text, it says: "Me meeting with Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford to get an endorsement for the Latvian Homeguard—at City Hall," and was posted May 6th.
The story comes via Warren Kinsella, who is about as far from a trustworthy source as you can get, but it's also up on Anti-Racist Canada. I went to check out Latvis' Facebook account, which is surprisingly public but also very sparse. I mean, it's possible that there's a dude impersonating him who is also good with Photoshop, but there are more prominent Toronto neo-Nazis and Ford would hardly be the first right-wing wacko with far-right links.
ETA: Context!
“(Mayor Ford) condemns all forms of racism.”
Except, you know. When he makes comments about how Chinese people work like dogs or immigrants are the cause of gun violence in Toronto or when he slashes social programs that primarily benefit racialized communities. He likes purple people, though.
That's Jon Latvis from RaHoWa (short for Racial Holy War) and he is not exactly quiet about his politics. The photo appears to have been posted by Latvis himself. If you can't read the text, it says: "Me meeting with Toronto's Mayor, Rob Ford to get an endorsement for the Latvian Homeguard—at City Hall," and was posted May 6th.
The story comes via Warren Kinsella, who is about as far from a trustworthy source as you can get, but it's also up on Anti-Racist Canada. I went to check out Latvis' Facebook account, which is surprisingly public but also very sparse. I mean, it's possible that there's a dude impersonating him who is also good with Photoshop, but there are more prominent Toronto neo-Nazis and Ford would hardly be the first right-wing wacko with far-right links.
ETA: Context!
“(Mayor Ford) condemns all forms of racism.”
Except, you know. When he makes comments about how Chinese people work like dogs or immigrants are the cause of gun violence in Toronto or when he slashes social programs that primarily benefit racialized communities. He likes purple people, though.
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