Agreed; this whole argument of, “Well, she made a minor mistake in her language, and she’ll be smarter next time...” needs to go fucking die in a gutter. These people are either stupid or disingenuous, especially with the linking of Omar’s mentions of “the Benjamin’s” to Judaism, which is really anti-semitic in…

Nobody who is serious about anti-Semitism thinks Omar’s comments are worthy of more than “Hey, phrasing!”-level objections. Going forward, she needs to be more studious about not crossing cultural tripwires that centuries of anti-Semitic sentiment have laid in our language and culture.

Well worth noting that this latest flap was NOT a case of her phrasing incorrectly. It was a 100% valid and not-anti-Semitic way of phrasing things. And that’s why Bernie is supporting her.

Good on Bernie. We do have an obligation to speak out against anti-Semitism, which the last five years have proven is still a very real, very serious problem in America.

Trump does want you to know every time a Mexican or a Muslim kills someone though.

Is a microaggression when you bomb small children?

meanwhile:

I think you got a good enough response for your wall of fallacies.

Which is it?

An article about Ilhan Omar being slammed for criticizing AIPAC. Things AIPAC does to earn that critique are purely topical here.

It’s an absolute stretch to conceivably imagine that any of Omar’s statements were anything close to resembling anti-semitic. The mental gymnastics some people are willing to do denounce anyone questioning our relationship with Israel are mind-boggling.

If you are thinking of coming at me with one of those superwoke arguments that only other jews can criticize Israel let me save you the time typing it out.

House Democrats now say that the resolution will also include condemnation of anti-Muslim sentiments, according to the New York Times.

I swear people were just champing at the bit waiting for any minute statement they could misinterpret to smear her reputation.

which seems odd, since all I heard since 2001 is how they’re concerned about the plight of women in the Muslim countries we’ve been bombing/occupying/destabilizing...

The only thing she should say is “This is some bullshit, ya’ll know it’s bullshit and stop all this bullshit.”

What Illhan is not problematic. We should be questioning why we are supporting an apartheid state in the middle east.


Also, holy shit, are we gonna do this to all the GOP knuckle draggers too?

Thank you for this piece. To this point:

It looks like his mom combed his hair for his first communion.

Buy the book and find out!!!

This is bull shit.