The catch?
Guess there's no problem if he himself uses the remains of his loved ones as a bludgeon to attack someone.
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USATODAY: Son of 9/11 victim addresses Ilhan Omar during memorial: 'Show respect in honoring them, please'
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The catch?
Guess there's no problem if he himself uses the remains of his loved ones as a bludgeon to attack someone.
These are the same types of people that believe we were attacked because they "hate our freedom".
Interesting how he'd single out Omar, but not Trump, who's been more "disrespectful" about 9/11 than anyone else.
I WONDER WHY THAT IS.
I WONDER WHY THAT IS.
Just a reminder that the real villains in this story are spineless Dems that gave succor to bad faith pearl clutching from the conservative pundit class. This guy's stunt sucks and it only happens because Dem leadership let this vile smear against Rep. Omar bloom into a full blown controversy.
At first I thought this was satire. If its real, you think the Democratic leadership has waaaayyy more power than they do. This is like the idea that Hillary Clinton is responsible for Obama birtherism.
I dunno.
While this is just waiting to go off the rails, there's an argument to be made that while not at only Pelosi's door, the Dems have done a piss poor job of defending themselves to the point where 'liberal' is seen as anti-american to the point where dems can be said to be communists and nobody bats an eye
They have the power to not be like We all agree what Rep. Omar said is problematic blah blah blah, but they don't because they're spineless.
Tell that to your representatives who couldn't be bothered to show up to the memorial in order to play underhanded politics.
Its fair to say that the Democrats should respond more forcefully at times, but I don't buy for a minute that better messaging is going to change the mind of QAnon or Infowars nuts
I can't help but think that the sentiment around 9/11 just feels like.... a mockery.
A mockery of every innocent person killed, tortured, raped or starved with the help of the U.S
How can Americans be so upset over a terrorist attack while they can just brush off destroying entire nation states? Killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. A hundred thousand dead Yemeni children. tens of thousands of dead Syrians, Afghanis, Pakistanis. And that's just in the last two decades. They've toppled several democratically elected leaders to install fascist dictators. Each one of those affected nations suffering terribly for decades under oppression. A global tragedy for millions. And the U.S has never apologized for ANY of it.
Who is going to honor those victims? When are we getting yearly memorials for those people?
A mockery of every innocent person killed, tortured, raped or starved with the help of the U.S
How can Americans be so upset over a terrorist attack while they can just brush off destroying entire nation states? Killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. A hundred thousand dead Yemeni children. tens of thousands of dead Syrians, Afghanis, Pakistanis. And that's just in the last two decades. They've toppled several democratically elected leaders to install fascist dictators. Each one of those affected nations suffering terribly for decades under oppression. A global tragedy for millions. And the U.S has never apologized for ANY of it.
Who is going to honor those victims? When are we getting yearly memorials for those people?
IIRC, most Democrats weren't particularly bad in responding this particular smear against Omar (though Pelosi's initial response was staggeringly awful). now, Tropesgate, that's another story entirely, but that's probably for another thread
It was a reason to invade and conquer for oil. It's that simple. Sickening.
I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt since more than a few people were pretty put off by the "some people did something" line when she made it. Then I saw that he was wearing a shirt with the line printed on it and there goes any goodwill I had. Yep, it's political. <sigh>
So the defense is the bad thing they did is that it doesn't matter because they're not good enough at their jobs to adequately influence the outcome of public discourse.
The US basically helped create and fund ISIS and the uprising of Al-Qada....just an FYI for that guy.
We basically fell on our own sword with 9/11, and it's a horrible price to pay for greed and warmongering. Thousands of innocent lives lost needlessly.
RIP to all who suffered. I'll never get the images out of my head from that day. My mom called me and woke me up, after I had worked a late shift the night before, just after the news reported the first crash. Saw the second plane hit live.
I hear you....it's gross....and 99% of Americans are completely ignorant of any of it. They're purposefully and uncaring levels of stupid on the matter.
We basically fell on our own sword with 9/11, and it's a horrible price to pay for greed and warmongering. Thousands of innocent lives lost needlessly.
RIP to all who suffered. I'll never get the images out of my head from that day. My mom called me and woke me up, after I had worked a late shift the night before, just after the news reported the first crash. Saw the second plane hit live.
I hear you....it's gross....and 99% of Americans are completely ignorant of any of it. They're purposefully and uncaring levels of stupid on the matter.
Why imagine it when you can BE it?!
Today has really shined a light on just how terrible people can be and, oddly enough, it seems to be the right wing.
Hell, the US is shit at acknowledging the suffering of its own citizens that it has caused, it's never going to give proper recognition or consideration to those lives from completely different countries.
I have great sympathy for this person and the tragedy they endured, but none for the adult politicians who took a phrase they knew full well to mean, specifically, "Not all muslims committed that act of terrorism" and turned it into a racially charged slogan so they can keep getting bribes from construction companies and car dealership networks and to kiss the ass of an openly racist incompetent president. Even George Bush jr said something with the exact same intended meaning after 911.
And neither of the two countries we invaded in the aftermath were the homeland or financing center of 19 of those terrorists. In fact we're currently talking about giving that same country nuclear technology. If we want to talk about respect we should start there.
And neither of the two countries we invaded in the aftermath were the homeland or financing center of 19 of those terrorists. In fact we're currently talking about giving that same country nuclear technology. If we want to talk about respect we should start there.
This dude's a moron. I have sympathy for him for his loss but he's still a moron and shouldn't have been given that platform.
Funny how it gets turned up to 11 when a brown woman is the target
Guy, your mother's corpse was used a stepping stone for numerous war criminals to commit two highly controversial wars and pardon the ones that actually killed your mother. That's the fucking opposite of respect, while your family and others have suffered this tragedy for years.
95% of the time, if not more than that, it's usually the right-wing. Because they don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves. Even 9/11 victims and their friends and families are not immune from the right-wing's shit. It's disgusting.
Obama was the best political speaker is decades and he couldn't convince these people he was born in this country or that he wasn't a Muslim. Fox News and social media has broken people's brains in fundamental ways.
I'm not going to deny any of the terrible things our government has done, but who exactly is the bolded directed towards?
I'm just not sure I understand the sentiment. Are you trying to say someone who lost a loved one in the September 11 attacks shouldn't be "so upset" because they happened to be born in a country whose government does bad things?
One illegal war. Afghanistan was completely justified, it's just that instead of Iraq we should have gone into Saudi Arabia.
when talking about the towers falling we have to to give complete reverence, but if this guy was talking about the Rwandan genocide or something he would barely give it the time of day
i understand why he cares and was impacted by it, but that doesn't mean anyone has to treat it as anymore a tragedy as anything else
i understand why he cares and was impacted by it, but that doesn't mean anyone has to treat it as anymore a tragedy as anything else
It's so predictable.
But they'll be real quick to use it to defend themselves. That's the thing that scares me the most about going low. They'll just go lower.
I don't understand how they can keep taking what she said out of context when the entirety of what she said is so easy to find.
I think it just exposed something that was already broken.
I think it just exposed something that was already broken.