Fargo family disavows son who was at white supremacist event
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A North Dakota family has disowned an adult son who attended a gathering of white supremacists that turned violent over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Pearce Tefft says in a letter to The Forum newspaper of Fargo that he and his family "loudly repudiate" the "vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and actions" of his 30-year-old son, Peter Tefft. He says his son isn't welcome at family gatherings until he renounces his "hateful beliefs."
The son, Peter Tefft, told KVLY-TV in Fargo on Monday that he didn't want to say much about his family's denunciation.
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While he denied his father's account about him once joking about fascists throwing people into ovens, he acknowledged that he did make a joke about ovens. He called it "a way to get under people's skin."