AOC calls out GOP hypocrisy re. Ilhan Omar.

[RandySF]

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@cspan.@RepAOC

@AOC defends Rep. @Ilhan Omar: "Don't tell me this is about consistency. Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks...This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America."

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Good for AOC

Play hardball, Democrats. Take it to the Republicans with everything you have.

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread RandySF

[bullimiami]

3. i disagree with aoc. its not about targeting "women of color".

she is right that its not about anti-semitic remarks.

it simple revenge and use of power against someone they dont like and have a grudge against.
they are petty assholes. its a petty power move.

they dont like her because she is black, female, immigrant and muslim who is also happens to be very smart and attractive.
they hate her because she is a democrat and has a liberal ideology.

[JohnSJ]

5. I agree.

[gratuitous]

6. Then why don't they take a run at all liberal Democrats

There's a reason they're not targeting, say, Earl Blumenauer. I can hazard a wild guess why they're targeting Omar.

[Retrograde]

7. Give 'em time

They just got started pulling Kevin’s strings

[Probatim]

17. Easy target to pick on those who are different.

[progressoid]

19. +1

[bullimiami]

25. its just waiting for something to trigger them. could be anyone. also notice how any of "their own"

is always forgiven and protected until they do something that starts to damage the party.

Their real hatred is reserved for their political opposition.
How about Herschel. Pretty much everything they supposedly dislike but they held their noses and smiled.

[LenaBaby61]

9. You have literal traitors on the reich side of the isle .....

Who were more than likely involved in Jan. 6th.

I wish I was Omar. I'd be calling them out.

But I guess she's been instructed to not say anything about that

[KPN]

11. I think it's both. You are right about them being

petty assholes and about petty power moves, but the clearly target women of color in particular — so it’s especially virulent when women who are not white, and particularly women who are not white Christian’s, are involved.

[BComplex]

27. And the REASON they hate democrats and liberal ideology, is because it INCLUDES and

ELEVATES women and men of color in every quarter. Liberals actually believe that "all people are created equal", and they live by that, and try to govern by that, which makes republicans' tiny, mostly-empty heads explode.

[world wide wally]

4. I love AOC

[iluvtennis]

8. +1.

[rurallib]

10. Remind me, please, who threatened AOC

I am getting older and I think I am running out of space in the attic. I vaguely remember the incident or maybe not now that I think on it a little.

[RandySF]

12. Paul Gosar

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/09/politics/gosar-anime-video-violence-ocasio-cortez-biden/index.html

[rurallib]

15. Thanks - for some reason I seemed to remember Gosar associated with this

[maxsolomon]

13. Criticize Israeli Government Policy, get tarred as an Anti-Semite.

Happened to HRC in 2016, too, when she had the temerity to suggest at AIPAC that the Settler Policy was counterproductive.

Omar went further.

Don't touch the 3rd Rail.

[Celerity]

14. +1

[Mosby]

18. Saying "Israel has hypnotized the world" doesn't sound like policy criticism to me.

It sounds like Antisemitism. YMMV.

[maxsolomon]

23. So you're in favor of this action then.

Any other Anti-Semite Dem Reps deserving of similar?

[wnylib]

26. Oh, please. I know liberal Jews who

would agree with that statement in regard to the settlement policy. One that I don't know personally, but I've read one of his books, is George Soros, whom Republicans love to hate. Soros has criticized Israeli politics with the accusation of treating Palestinians as badly as Israelis were treated in other parts of the world.

I fully support Israel's right as a nation to defend itself against attacks and terrorism, but many of their policies and actions are excessive, which is what Soros was pointing out.

[Better Days Ahoy]

28. I agree 100% with Soros.

And my father's livelihood depended on Israel continuing as a sovereign state. Dad ran North America for Zim Lines in the '70s and early '80s. I grew up in a pro-Israeli state house, but my Dad didn't agree with the settlements. Only spoke about it at home, though. He wasn't a fool.

[Better Days Ahoy]

29. I agree 100% with Soros.

And my father's livelihood depended on Israel continuing as a sovereign state. Dad ran North America for Zim Lines in the '70s and early '80s. I grew up in a pro-Israeli state house, but my Dad didn't agree with the settlements. Only spoke about it at home, though. He wasn't a fool.

[2naSalit]

21. +1

[Jrose]

16. Meantime, lying, racist, anti-Semite, aka Santos, does not get expelled from maga-thug club

...besides all the blatantly anti-democratic and fascistic election deniers and insurrection abettors that are allowed to sit in the House.

[tornado34jh]

20. Isn't it always been that?

So let me get this straight, criticizing the Israel government for legit reasons is anti-Semite, so does that mean, if we criticize say Saudi Arabia, that makes us anti-Arab? Mind you that the term "Semite" originally meant any of several ethnic groups which included, in addition to Hebrews and Jews, Assyrians, Ethopians, Babylonians, and Arabs as well. Hebrew, Arab, and Amharic are in the same Semitic branch of languages, albeit in different sub-branches. Either way, discounting all that, it's petty revenge. But let's get one thing clear, this is a pathetic backlash against what they see as a loss of power on their end, specifically to the people that are WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon Protestant). In many ways, we have not gotten past that even after the Civil rights era. They are afraid of losing power, and because other people of color/non-Christian religions have gained momentum over the last 50 or so years, they are angry about losing hegemony.

[LymphocyteLover]

22. Bringing the heat!

Love it!

[LittleGirl]

24. Love her, love this! Thanks for sharing! eom