re: #294 teleskiguy

UpChuck is out as a white supremacist. He’d have been a great useful idiot for the Gestapo.

People he went to college with described him as the kind of person who would have been a judge in Stalin’s kangaroo courts.

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In College he would harass people through his blog—he seemed to enjoy outing gay people (this was around 2008/Prop 8 and the editor of the campus paper was not out to his parents or something? The exact details were always a bit unclear). He also supposedly would grab pictures and screenshots off of people’s facebooks to blackmail/harass/attack them later in life (like if they wanted to run for office or whatever). He also tried to have a professor fired for “supporting terrorists” (the Professor, who was Palestinian, had supported some boycott of Israel…).

Going to school with him was kind of terrifying—our Government Department had a lot of old Reagan Officials and probably some lingering Nixon cronies who completely enabled his school-yard fascism (that’s how he is so plugged into the Conservative scholarship world). There is no doubt in my mind that at a different time and place he would have gladly been over-seeing Stalinist Show Trials and gleefully ordering executions…I have more stories but his M.O. is harassment and frivolous lawsuits so I am censoring myself a bit on this public comment page