‘Competent White Men Must Be In Charge,’ High-Profile State Dept. Appointee Wrote Last Year
Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, February 3, 2025
Donald Trump’s return to the White House is not only a second opportunity for the president to fulfill his political wishlist, but a second chance for some of the most extreme figures in his first administration to climb the rungs of power.
Enter Darren Beattie, a former Trump staffer who was fired from the White House in 2016 after attending a white nationalist conference. Beattie has now been tapped to serve as the State Department’s acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, according to a report from Semafor. {snip}
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In October, for example, Beattie wrote on X: “Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”
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In May of 2023, Beattie wrote: “Middle class and working class white men are treated far worse in America than Uiguhrs are in China,” a reference to the Turkish-descendent ethnic group targeted by Chinese government’s ethnic cleansing campaigns.
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