{"id":125062,"date":"2018-12-09T07:05:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=125062"},"modified":"2018-12-09T17:25:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T01:25:20","slug":"huffpo-a-prominent-white-supremacist-is-an-emt-in-virginia-now-the-state-is-investigating-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=125062","title":{"rendered":"Huffpo: A Prominent White Supremacist Is An EMT In Virginia. Now The State Is Investigating Him."},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Alex McNabb, a white supremacist podcaster who works as an emergency medical technician in southern Virginia, is under investigation by the state\u2019s Department of Health, a spokesperson for the department confirmed to HuffPost.<\/p>\n

McNabb, 35, is a frequent co-host of \u201cThe Daily Shoah,\u201d a popular neo-Nazi podcast. On the show he regularly tells stories about being an EMT, often referring to patients by racist slurs and comparing black patients to animals.<\/p>\n

An anonymous complaint was made on Nov. 26 against McNabb, who works as an EMT in Patrick County, according to Marian Hunter, public relations coordinator for the Virginia Department of Health\u2019s Office of Emergency Medical Services. Because it\u2019s an \u201copen and active investigation,\u201d Hunter did not describe the nature of the complaint.<\/p>\n

His continued employment as an EMT, however, raises ethical and legal questions about whether an avowed racist and white nationalist can objectively make life-and-death decisions for patients of color, Jewish patients and other minorities, experts say.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who is espousing this type of vitriolic racism on a regular basis \u2014 it casts serious doubts on their ability to provide emergency medical treatment for someone who does not fit their criteria for an ethnostate,\u201d Keegan Hankes, senior researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center, told HuffPost.<\/p>\n

McNabb has not been charged with a crime and will not be suspended from his job during the state\u2019s investigation, which could last up to 60 days.<\/p>\n

McNabb didn\u2019t respond to a HuffPost request Friday for comment about the investigation.<\/p>\n

In a recurring segment on \u201cThe Daily Shoah,\u201d McNabb assumes a persona he calls Dr. Narcan. In these segments, he tells his co-hosts stories about being an EMT. He regularly refers to black patients as \u201cdindus,\u201d a deeply racist slur common among the alt-right.<\/p>\n

During a Nov. 8, 2016, episode, McNabb compared black patients to animals. \u201cThe heat brings out the wild in the dindu,\u201d he said, adding that, \u201cas winter approaches, the animals go into hibernation and the ridiculousness of the [911] calls goes down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vacation optics. pic.twitter.com\/A8aclDfqcM<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alex McNabb (@AlexJMcNabb) July 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n