Hotel cancels racist meeting; group blames "SJWs"

The Guesthouse Inn in Nashville cancelled the booking after having been informed of the nature of the group, the "Council of Conservative Citizens".

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“The group will not be at our hotel, nor will they ever be at our hotel,” director of sales Michelle Jameson told the Tennessean. She said the inn canceled the reservations, for an event scheduled to take place this weekend, after “it was brought to our attention to what this group might possibly be”. “This is definitely not what the Guesthouse Inn represents,” Jameson said. The CoCC is a far-right group that espouses white supremacism. Its “statement of principles” includes opposition to “all efforts to mix the races of mankind” and “the massive immigration of non-European and non-Western peoples into the United States”. Brad Griffin, a member of the CoCC who writes as “Hunter Wallace” on a “pro-white, pro-south, pro-independence” blog, blamed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a hate-group watchdog, for the hotel’s action. “We can’t reserve a hotel conference room without groups organizing out there to make death threats to cancel the conference, certain protests and stuff,” Griffin told the Tennessean. On the blog, he wrote: “There are several ways we can hold a conference in the future and avoid this problem. It won’t happen again.” “The usual happened: we sent out a mailing to the membership about the conference, the SPLC was on the list, they got the mailing and wrote a story, which was picked up by the press, and the hotel folded under pressure from SJW harassment and death threats.”

The Guesthouse Inn did not report having received any death threats to cancel the event.

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