Virginia EMT suspended without pay; insists his neo-Nazi podcast isn't racist, it's just 'satire'
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A white supremacist podcast host has been placed on unpaid leave from his job as an EMT this week, after statements he made about people of color created substantial doubt about his ability to care for patients who are not white. Alex McNabb, 35, created an aVirginia EMT suspended without pay; insists his neo-Nazi podcast isn't racist, it's just 'satire'
A white supremacist podcast host has been placed on unpaid leave from his job as an EMT this week, after statements he made about people of color created substantial doubt about his ability to care for patients who are not white. Alex McNabb, 35, created an alter ego for the “Daily Shoah” podcast and, as “Dr. Narcan,” he told stories from his work as a first responder in Patrick County, Virginia. McNabb compared black patients to gorillas, mocked patients with racial slurs, and told a horrifying story wherein he “terrorized” a young black boy. He then told another story of an “unruly young African-American male child running around” an emergency room. “As it turned out, this young African-American male was there to get blood drawn, so guess who volunteered to take his blood?” he told his co-hosts, who laughed in response. “Dr. Narcan enjoyed great, immense satisfaction as he terrorized this youngster with a needle and stabbed him thusly in the arm with a large-gauge IV catheter.” Predictably, McNabb insists that his hateful podcast is just political comedy and satire, see, and he describes Dr. Narcan as a “transgressive comedy sketch.” He’d never let his bigotry get in the way of his work, he claimed, after a complaint was filed against him with the state. On the Nov. 30 episode of “The Daily Shoah,” McNabb said he didn’t treat patients differently based on their ethnicity or religion. “It’s a professional duty,” he said. “You have a fucking duty, to go out there and give 100 percent on every single call. It doesn’t matter what race or color or what situation it is.” He added, “I mean, no one’s going to do something to put their job in jeopardy or do something that makes them look like an incompetent asshole.” Since the HuffPost story about McNabb was published, the suspended bigot appears to have spent his time glued to the internet, on Twitter in particular, ranting about antifa this or antifa that, and ceaselessly mocking Christopher Mathias, who wrote the exposé. (He even found time to mock my coverage of this situation!) Read more