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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,920 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 02:53 PM Feb 2020

A New York lawmaker wants to treat white supremacists like foreign jihadists.

Is this the solution, or a new war on terror?

BROOKLYN — If all else were to fail in his fight against the threat of domestic terrorism, Rep. Max Rose offered an unconventional plan to protect the Brooklynites who had come to hear him speak at a Jewish community center: He’d stand on guard duty at their places of worship himself.

“Right in front of your church, and your mosque, or your synagogue,” the Army combat veteran said.

“I’ll do it,” Rose told the people who came out to this low-slung stretch of Ocean Parkway, where mosques and synagogues sit next to auto repair shops and fast food joints. “I’m a scary-looking dude, right?”

Short and bald, with eyes that fold into an intense interrogatory squint, the first-term congressman representing Staten Island and a narrow wedge of Brooklyn looks more like an outside linebacker than a first-term legislator.

https://news.yahoo.com/a-new-york-lawmaker-wants-to-treat-white-supremacists-like-foreign-jihadists-100037274.html
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A New York lawmaker wants to treat white supremacists like foreign jihadists. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 OP
As well they should be. Nitram Feb 2020 #1
About damn time! Behind the Aegis Feb 2020 #2

Behind the Aegis

(53,950 posts)
2. About damn time!
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 04:31 PM
Feb 2020

Chris Rock said it best...yeeeeears ago..."I ain't afraid of Al-Qaida, I am afraid of Al Cracker!" The rise of white supremacy is a threat to more than just POC, it is a threat to many minorities, including Jews, Muslims, Atheists, the Queer community, including those who are also white, as well as those with disabilities and white supremacy, so often, goes hand in hand with male supremacy, so women are also vulnerable.

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