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| Rep. Tlaib: My Anti-Semitic Views Are Being "Shushed" Because I'm A Woman Of Color |
| 2019-02-13 |
| [RedState] It’s been a bad week for the newest anti-Semitic members of Congress. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was forced to apologize for blatantly anti-Semitic tropes she tweeted Sunday night. The apology came after House Democratic leaders condemned her comments Monday in a rare public rebuke of a Congresswoman by members of her own party. Also on Monday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) close associations with anti-Semites were once again revealed when it was discovered she wrote a column in 2006 for "the official communications organ of the Nation of Islam." In response to the discovery, a spokesman for the freshman Michigan Congresswoman told Business Insider’s Joe Perticone that the piece "was not an endorsement of Farrakhan or anyone for that matter. The Congresswoman has not had any direct contact with Farrakhan and condemns his anti-Semitic and anti-LGBTQ views." Not having "any direct contact with Farrakhan" does not and should not absolve Tlaib ‐ nor Omar, for that matter ‐ of their well-known hostility towards Jewish people. In seeming exasperation over the last two days of events, Tlaib took to the Twitter machine last night and pulled out the "Woman of Color" card: Rashida Tlaib ✔ @RashidaTlaib The hardest part of serving in Congress as a WOC & as a "first" is how people hear you differently. No matter how much we take on the hate & stay true to who we are through our experiences, our voices are shushed and reduced. We aren't perfect, but neither is this institution. 35.4K 3:20 AM - Feb 12, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 9,540 people are talking about this Not to be outdone, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) jumped on Twitter in defense of Omar, pretending that Omar’s apology was sincere (it wasn’t) and retweeting this spectacularly ignorant tweet: Ady Barkan🔥🌹 ✔ @AdyBarkan · Feb 11, 2019 Replying to @AdyBarkan AIPAC is a central pillar of the occupation. Without Congressional support, the Likud/anti-Palestine/pro-occupation project would be radically undermined. AIPAC is the anchor of that support, and its money and Sheldon Adelson’s money are indispensable to the work. Ady Barkan🔥🌹 ✔ @AdyBarkan We have a growing anti-semitism problem in America. @IlhanMN is not part of it. @lindasrsour is not part of it. They are allies of mine and of Jews across this country who are fighting for peace, racial justice, immigrants’ rights, and the defeat of fascism. AOC, another "woke" Democratic member of Congress who is helping mainstream anti-Semitism within the party, also likes to pretend criticism of her’s and her "squad’s" absurd policy proposals boils down to the fact that they’re "brown women" or something. This has nothing, zero, nada to do with the fact that any of them are women of color and everything to do with the fact that they are ‐ to put it charitably ‐ openly hostile to Jewish interests. Anyone who doesn’t believe that should read about retired Democratic Rep. Jim Moran, a white guy from Virginia who was frequently criticized for his anti-Israel views. None of these women are being "shushed." What’s happening to them is what happens to any other politician, male or female, no matter their color, when their hatred for a group of people is exposed. They all need to put on their big girl panties and deal with the criticism like grown women instead erupting into fits of the vapors and falling onto the fainting couch. Time to grow up, ladies. And guess which color that is? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #17 Khat interdiction? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-13 21:53 |
| #16 She represents a bunch of Muslims in her district. It is important to listen to her, because were she she to go, her district will just elect someone else just like her when she is gone. So, do not oppose her, please instead oppose her opinions. Perhaps we can persuade her constituents to moderate their views. |
| Posted by: rammer 2019-02-13 21:14 |
| #15 two muslim monkeys in our congress. What has this country become? |
| Posted by: Jim Cramer6666666 2019-02-13 19:30 |
| #14 Hello, she's a MUSLIM. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2019-02-13 17:59 |
| #13 Like lord garth said, it is her own team trying to shush our lady of diversity; their trophy is ending up a stereotype. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-02-13 14:49 |
| #12 AlanC——no disrespect to septic tanks. Heh |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-02-13 14:35 |
| #11 Rashida: A Taliban Barbie Or just a heretical Harbi? Oh, that's not confusin' Enough? Throw "the Jooz" in! No wonder she's so argy-bargy. |
| Posted by: Angimp Gonque9125 2019-02-13 14:34 |
| #10 Filed under "Not this shit again!" Somewhat OT: Foreign names in weird unpronounceable languages tend to be hard to transliterate into English. I'm wondering about the similarity of 'Tlaib', as in Rep. Rashida Tlaib(D-MI), to some form of 'Taliban' Just curious, not trying to draw any connections. To my uneducated eye (or is it ear?), Taleb ( like Nassim Taleb - Black Swan, Antifragile guy) has a similar root. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-02-13 12:46 |
| #9 Her3-fer victimhood is the wind neath her wings |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2019-02-13 11:56 |
| #8 Ref #7:. "When the enemy is in error, dot stop him (or her)." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-02-13 11:53 |
| #7 It is Democrats in MN who have been trying to get Representative Omar to shush her blatant anti semitic comments and use bland jargon instead to disguise it. That hasn't worked. Nobody, to my knowledge, has been successful getting Representative Talib to use bland jargon yet as she seems fatally potty mouth. This anti semite one day, faux moderate the next seems likely to go on for months. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-02-13 11:26 |
| #6 blame it on the gum |
| Posted by: Jan 2019-02-13 10:38 |
| #5 Not because you are a woman or black but because you are a despicable bigot. The Dems are certainly sinking to the bottom of the septic tank. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-02-13 08:26 |
| #4 i would have never guessed she would play the race card. |
| Posted by: chris 2019-02-13 08:19 |
| #3 They may have a common religion, however |
| Posted by: Frank G 2019-02-13 07:01 |
| #2 ...Stupid and anti-semitic know no color, Madam Congressman. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2019-02-13 04:50 |
| #1 Trash is trash. The color of the trash is irrelevant... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-13 01:28 |