The Conservative Barf Bag today goes to Michael Santiago and Michael James for compressing into a single encounter so many conservative values: racism, misogyny, violence, sexual aggression, and rudeness.
From The New York Times
The two men live-streamed the Feb. 19 encounter online. In it, they approach a woman on a street corner in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, and one of the men, wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, demands a kiss.
The woman, who is Black, refuses the man, who is white, and he becomes belligerent, setting off a war of words in which he uses racial epithets and tells her he wants to have sex with a “slave.”
He then ducks down to kiss her boots — only to burn them with a lighter.
On Thursday, the police arrested two men, Michael Santiago, 31, and Michael James, 33, in connection with the incident. The men were charged with criminal mischief, menacing and attempted assault, all as hate crimes, as well as harassment, criminal tampering and arson.
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The episode in Chelsea unfolded at West 26th Street and Seventh Avenue at about 3 p.m., according to the police. In it, a man whom the police identified as Mr. James can be heard cursing at the woman, using racial slurs and telling her, “You’re my slave.” At one point, he asks to kiss her fuzzy boots, and she allows him to. While crouching on the pavement, he pulls out a lighter and singes the fur, which she does not appear to notice at first. Mr. Santiago, according to the police, is filming.
“One of the individuals engaged the victim in conversation and leaned in to kiss her,” the Police Department said in a news release. “The victim pushed him away, after which the individual proceeded to make anti-Black statements toward her.”
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Never ever underestimate the malignance of conservatives.