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B.See

(8,490 posts)
Tue Jul 4, 2023, 10:46 AM Jul 2023

"We got to rise up, everyone": Rep. Jamaal Bowman battles the normalization of Trump

“It could get way, way worse”: Progressive New York congressman urges media and voters to “get in the game

By any means necessary we have to address this threat, whatever that may look like. I think the bigger part of it is we need more people raising their voices and recognizing and acknowledging that this threat actually exists, and more people speaking truth to power to condemn it and suppress it and get rid of it. Because it doesn't just manifest in mass shootings; it manifests in policy, it manifests in hiring practices. It manifests in how we talk about particular groups, whether it's the trans community, women, people of color, the Jewish community, the Muslim community, etc.

We need a mass movement against this to make sure there's not a corner of this country that accepts this, and if there is a corner, it's in the far corners where we never deal with it or see it again.
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