This is absolutely wrong. Omar has been getting attacked by the GOP for a while now on this axis and no one cared on the Dem side until now, because until now, she hadn't done anything recently that was actually a problem.
Because on top of the iffy original tweet, she RTed a guy complaining it was like say "hooked-nose Jews". For those who may not be twitter-literate, that is what you do on twitter if you're making fun of people arguing against you in your feed. Austan Goolsbee will make Fox News appearances on economic stuff, and he RTs many Trump trolls he gets afterwards. It may have been an accident due to not reading it, but holy hell it looked really bad, which is why she deleted it, and why the response from Max Rose was quickly put out.
I'm saying that's the behavior she imitated, intentionally or not. The sloppy original tweet got the even sloppier RT. And when people on your own side of the aisle are pissed as a result, it's probably not because they're acting in bad faith.
I don't think you can handwave "intentional or not" here.
From the perspective of Pelosi, even if it's unintentional, you need to address the sloppy behavior. It's like if someone has a history of iffy statements re: black people and then makes a fried chicken reference. Given that this is stemming from her impulsively tweeting stuff, fixing that is legitimately important.
That you believe Jewish Dems can't be criticizing her in good faith without being BDS supporters is incredibly disgusting.
Why does she have to do that?
That looks bad, but I feel like it's really about criticizing what AIPAC actually does. Criticizing this lobbyist group is off-limits and it is bi-partisan. This is what receives a harsh response and essentially toss party unity out of the door. It's cowardly and it's even worse because the thing she said was factually right. The transparency of money in politics is a good thing.
I've replied to you, and it isn't about Omar's tweets in context.
I think it's not unreasonable to expect members of congress to step super carefully around Israel and AIPAC issues because, well, because of this shit.
Having a politician on your own side tweeting out iffy stuff that wastes everyone's time is legitimately bad in its own right, whether she's anti-semitic or not. I'm not making a judgment on that.
That may have been her intent. That's explicitly not what the RT was about, and it's why she got a response from her own side of the aisle.
Do you have no opinion or do you just don't want to share it?
Pelosi has spoken at AIPAC before so it's no surprise should would put out a statement like that. But it still gets me that they have the nerve to say that they should denounce hatred and racism yet still support a genocidal, apartheid state. Like my mind is exploding by the shear gall of that statement.
Legit no opinion, I'm not making a judgment on that. A 10 page thread here, responses from Dem leadership and other members- this is all shit no one has to deal with due to someone being sloppy on twitter. If she's not anti-semitic, cleaning up the sloppiness should avoid further incidents.
There would still be incidents even if she has the most perfect language.
Aye, the tone policing is horrible. You'd expect Pelosi to mediate than throwing Omar under the bus.
Bad faith complaints from the GOP are not "incidents". This is an incident. The goal is to prevent more.
