On this date one year ago, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day”, had its first profile of Werner Horn, who first was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives since 2014, when he unseated incumbent Democrat Scott Burns by all of 12 votes. In the 2018 mid-terms, Horn again held off Burns by a staggering 20 votes. We’ve profilied Horn not so much for his voting record, where he’s voted against minimum wage increases, voted against an official procedure to investigate sexual harassment within the state legislature, against an attempt to repeal the death penalty, voted against a ban on gay conversion therapy, and voted against a measure to prevent discrimination in public schools.
No we’re going to write a profile on Werner Horn because in July of 2019, he had a conversation with a former GOP state legislator on Facebook where he posited his opinion that, “owning slaves doesn’t make you racist.” It wasn’t a misunderstanding, as he was contacted by the Huffington Post and gave an interview where, at length, he defended his goddamned ignorant stance:
”It’s never OK to own another person. But to label the institution as racist is a false narrative. Slave masters didn’t consider race at the auction block but instead were making an economic decision and purchasing who was available. When you look back at auction inventory lists, Horn said, there aren’t white names” or Native American or Hispanic names
I should’ve said European instead of white, but I’m a little less PC than normal people.
Women and children cost less than male slaves, so does that mean they were being discriminated against? Unless you’re going to try to tell me those plantation owners were so in the dark ages that they delighted in being also sexist and ageist — practicing age discrimination and sex discrimination when they bought slaves — I don’t see how you can say they’re being racist because they bought black slaves
My comment specifically was aimed at a period of time when that was how you survived, that’s how you fed your family. It wasn’t ‘I want to own a black person today.’ It was, ’I need to feed my family; I need five guys who can work stupidly long hours in the sun without killing themselves.’”
If you were playing white nationalist bingo, you may have just won based on that interview alone.
Realizing that he had little chance of winning re-election after even his own Republican Governor called him out for being racist as heck, Werner Horn opted to call it a career as a legislator and not run for re-election in 2020.
We would like to wish him our finest “Good Riddance” salute at this time.
One Year Ago, April 17th, 2020: Werner Horn (NH)… Original Profile
Two Years Ago, April 17th, 2019: Walter Jones (NC)… 2019 Update
Three Year Ago, April 17th, 2018: Walter Jones (NC)… 2018 Update
Four Years Ago, April 17th, 2017: Walter Jones (NC)…2017 Update
Five Years Ago. April 17th, 2016: Walter Jones (NC)… 2016 Update
Six Years Ago: April 17th, 2015: Walter Jones (NC)… Original Profile