Founder of ‘Conservative’ Climate Change Reform Group Posts Pro-Kaepernick, Social Justice Diatribe
Shane Trejo
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Student leader Benji Backer, who has gained GOP establishment support for peddling the climate change myth to young conservatives, came out with a social justice diatribe on his Twitter account Wednesday.
In Backer’s screed, he apologized for ever doubting the anti-American protests of former NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick cashed out after turning against police and his country during a time in which the Black Lives Matter movement was regularly burning cities to the ground.
Backer posted a nauseatingly long Twitter thread in which he embraced social justice dogma following the death of a black man in Minnesota at the hands of law enforcement that has sparked widespread rioting and property destruction.
I grew up in the heart of Wisconsin, but was still raised on equality & respect for everyone. For me, I couldn’t fathom the fact that racism could still exist in the U.S. So, I simply refused to believe it existed. And I went on social media and tried to disprove the possibility.
— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) May 27, 2020
At the end of the day, I had no idea what Kaepernick or any person from minority communities were going through.
How could I—a white person—put myself in their shoes without having any idea of what it’s like? And why should I judge the way they voiced the injustice & pain felt?
— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) May 27, 2020
I grew up in a privileged, predominantly white area. I didn’t know what blacks went through every day. I still don’t know and never truly will. But I have a better idea, and it makes my blood boil. Especially after the past few weeks.
— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) May 27, 2020
We’ve made a lot of amazing improvements in this country to combat racism. But as a population, we can all do better at *listening* to minorities about the mistreatment they face instead of pretending it doesn’t exist. It still does—and it will take all of us to eradicate it.
— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) May 27, 2020
Backer finished his rant by telling social justice leftists that he will be a reliable “ally” to their cause of America’s destruction moving forward.
Ultimately, I want to say I’m sorry to those in minority communities. My ignorance stemmed from a lack of understanding (that I’ll always have), as well as the hope that the world is more equitable than it actually is.
You can count on me to be an advocate & ally moving forward.
— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) May 27, 2020
When Backer is not being a useful idiot for social justice warriors, he is busy indoctrinating conservative students about the supposed dangers of climate change. The organization he founded, the American Conservation Coalition, calls for government policy to reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
He was profiled by CNN earlier this year as a young conservative who is in line with communist agitator Greta Thunberg.
“I don’t believe that we need to end fossil fuels overnight,” Backer said to the fake news outlet. “I think that there are ways to transition over multiple, multiple decades to cleaner technologies.”
“Every one of my generation wants to buy a Tesla. Everyone in my generation wants to have solar panels on their roofs. That demand is there. That’s a culture change that no government policy could ever enact, that is shifting the way that we look at climate change and our economy,” Backer added. “But it’s not going to take just one policy.”
Backer spent time at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February deriding President Trump’s environmental agenda, which has brought back the coal industry and destroyed his predecessor’s job-killing regulations.
“He started to say that climate change is real, which is a huge difference from where he’s been before,” Backer said, claiming that Trump’s environmental policies are unpopular and should be more leftist.
“People on both sides say I’m a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But if he changed his tune and said tomorrow, ‘I want a big climate change policy,’ I will work with anybody, whether that’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or President Trump,” he added.
If Backer’s views are the future of Republican politics, the Left will have won the war, and America will be fundamentally transformed into a socialist despotism forever.
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