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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 29, 2023, 08:13 PM Mar 2023

Josh Hawley paves the way for outlawing 'woke' speech Opinion

Josh Hawley, of Missouri, has demonstrated that he’s one of the most dangerous men in the United States Senate. He took to the floor Tuesday, the day after a shooting massacre in Nashville that left three 9-year-olds and three adults shot to pieces. He said he would introduce a resolution condemning the massacre as a hate crime.

“I call on every member of this body to condemn, in the clearest of terms, this hate crime against this community in Nashville,” he said. “I will introduce a resolution explicitly condemning this massacre as the hate crime that it is. I’m calling on this body to condemn hateful rhetoric that leads to violence – against hateful rhetoric against religious believers, religious institutions, religious communities that leads to violence. This isn’t speculation. This is a tragic fact.”

Superficially, this seems unexceptional, almost familiar, as Hawley is borrowing from liberal discussions about condemning hate crimes that have been committed in places like Pittsburgh (Jews), Charleston (Black people) and El Paso (Hispanics). Not only that, because this is Hawley speaking, who’s one of the most daring and ambitious voices in right-wing politics, it almost looks like he’s joining the liberals.

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What he’s doing is what merchants of right-wing politics do. They do not want to solve problems. They do not want to help people. The government is for neither. The government is for controlling people, especially out people, which is to say, people on the margins of our society. But to do that, the world must be turned upside down, backwards and prolapsed. To some degree, Hawley’s succeeding.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/josh-hawley-paves-the-way-for-outlawing-woke-speech-opinion/ar-AA19einG

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Josh Hawley paves the way for outlawing 'woke' speech Opinion (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2023 OP
Oh no gazelle-boy it's mental illness Fullduplexxx Mar 2023 #1
A hate crime by a Christian - Hale. keithbvadu2 Mar 2023 #2
Then let's deem progressiveness as a religion. Chakaconcarne Mar 2023 #3

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