GOP Senator Says BLM Movement Is Trying to 'Destroy American Principles'

[JonLP24]

Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler on Wednesday defended recent criticisms she has made about the Black Lives Matter movement, which she said "seeks to destroy American principles."

"This is a very divisive organization based on Marxist principles," Loeffler said during an interview with Fox News. "They threatened to burn the system down, literally and figuratively, if they don't get what they want."


Loeffler, a Republican, was sworn in to represent Georgia in the Senate in January after Governor Brian Kemp chose her to succeed former Senator Johnny Isakson, who resigned last year due to health concerns. Loeffler is also a co-owner of the Atlanta Dream, the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) team based in Atlanta, a role that came under fire after she spoke out against the team's support for Black Lives Matter.

The controversy began earlier this week after the WNBA announced its 2020 season would be "dedicated to social justice" in support of Black Lives Matter and the "Say Her Name" campaign, with phrases attributed to both movements printed on team jerseys and on the courts.

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[rockfordfile]

1. A idiot

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. A racist idiot at that

[yellowcanine]

3. Well one of the American principles was slavery so....

I would hope so!

[yellowcanine]

4. "divisive organization based on Marxist principles"

Get a life lady, red baiting is so 1950s. As it did then, it means you are out of argument's.

[Aristus]

5. She probably couldn't name a Marxist principle.

She's just repeating something she thought would make her sound like she knew what she was talking about...

[Caliman73]

6. Oh redbaiting is alive and well in the 2020's

The GOP has made it a strategy into perpetuity. They are supported by the idiots in the "Intellectual Dark Web" like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and other fools who talk about "Cultural Marxism" wanting to destroy "the West" as if there is some entity called "the West" and Marx and his ideas aren't from that, "the West".

It is code for people challenging White Supremacy.

[budkin]

7. She won't be a Senator much longer

Also CROFL the "Marxist" talking point the GOP keeps trotting out.

[irisblue]

8. This echoes Ginni Thomas & Trump's comments this week. Trumpers are building a sound bite

[gratuitous]

9. Senator Loeffler

Those "American principles" you're so in love with? They are literally murdering people in the streets with impunity. The survivors of the victims have been trying for decades to change those principles, but they're not using violence anywhere near the violence that's been visited on them. When the defenders of your principles denied the victims the right to speak out (remember Colin Kaepernick?), others came to their aid, appalled at the obvious injustice. The more the numbers burgeoned, the more entrenched your hidebound position became, the more the injustices continued, and the more citizens died at the behest of your principles.

The tide has turned, and now you're reduced to bleating about "Marxist principles" (whatever that is) and complaining that you in the security of your privilege have at long last been inconvenienced. Sad! You have no one but yourself to blame for your previous indifference.