White folks never do any wrong

[aubiefifty 18,248]

Extremist GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) wondered in a weekend interview why people are picking on homicidal white supremacists.

She said that there are so many other criminals to complain about instead — like undocumented immigrants. She also said people should be talking about the “Asian man” who killed a member of a California church last week, and the “Black man” who drove his car into Wisconsin shoppers last year.

She added, incongruously, that it “shouldn’t be about race.”

Greene made the comments as she attacked Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) for railing last week in the House against the avowed white supremacist suspected in the mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket targeting Black people that killed 10.

Why is there a “target” on white supremacists? Greene asked in an interview from her car (below) with the right-wing outlet Real America’s Voice.

“White supremacy shouldn’t be the main target,” the lawmaker argued. “We should be more concerned about the illegal invasion at the border, the crime happening every single day on our streets, especially in cities like Chicago. We should go after criminals that break the law and not pursue people based on their skin color.”

But race clearly is critically important in hate crimes. The FBI reported last year that the number of hate crimes in the U.S. in 2020 was the highest in two decades, triggered by a surge in assaults largely by white men on Black and Asian Americans, Hispanics and Jews.

There were 51 hate-crime murders in America in 2019, the highestat that time since the FBI began tracking the toll in the 1990s. Most victims were Blacks, Hispanics and Jews.

“Preventing racial hate crimes means tackling white supremacist ideology,” said a position paper posted last week by the Brookings Institution. Over the past 20 years, the number of hate groups in the U.S. has jumped 100%, it noted.

Nadler’s reference to the Buffalo shootings that so incensed Greene was part of his argument to pass the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act to crack down on the problem. The bill is supported by Democrats, but Republicans are lukewarm.

Nadler also referred to the killing of more than 20 people in an El Paso, Texas, store in 2019 and the shooting deaths of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018.

The killings all involved white shooters inspired by the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which baselessly claims there’s a plot to replace whites with people of color, immigrants and Jews. Greene’s reference to an immigrant “invasion” was an apparent dog whistle to believers in the imagined plot.

[aubiefifty 18,248]

someone else on here was saying the same thing just a couple of days ago. hint.........they are not dems.

[homersapien 12,238]

"Why is there a target on white supremacists?"

Well, that pretty much sums up MTG, as well as the people who voted for her.   Not much left to say about her (or them).

Edited May 28, 2022 by homersapien

[icanthearyou 4,468]

She represents Republicans.  It really is that simple.

[DKW 86 7,907]

MTG is just pure batcrap crazy

Edited May 30, 2022 by DKW 86

[creed 1,790]

14 hours ago, icanthearyou said:

She represents Republicans.  It really is that simple.

Well there's one Republican she doesn't represent. It's really that simple.

[icanthearyou 4,468]

14 minutes ago, creed said:

Well there's one Republican she doesn't represent. It's really that simple.

Sorry but I disagree.  There are too many like her within the party for that claim to be realistic. 

[creed 1,790]

48 minutes ago, icanthearyou said:

Sorry but I disagree.  There are too many like her within the party for that claim to be realistic. 

Dude. You need to read  my post again before insulting me. 

[icanthearyou 4,468]

1 hour ago, creed said:

Dude. You need to read  my post again before insulting me. 

I am very sorry you feel insulted.  Not my intention.

 

[homersapien 12,238]

2 hours ago, creed said:

Well there's one Republican she doesn't represent. It's really that simple.

Don't look now, but your party has been hijacked.

[creed 1,790]

I’m not going freely or quietly. 

[jj3jordan 2,171]

1 hour ago, homersapien said:

Don't look now, but your party has been hijacked.

So has yours. More left turns than Talladega.  

[autigeremt 7,208]

9 hours ago, icanthearyou said:

Sorry but I disagree.  There are too many like her within the party for that claim to be realistic. 

There you go again….painting with a paint blower. 

[autigeremt 7,208]

7 hours ago, homersapien said:

Don't look now, but our country has been hijacked.

Fixed it for you. 

[icanthearyou 4,468]

14 hours ago, autigeremt said:

There you go again….painting with a paint blower. 

I apologize.   The broad brush just wasn't getting the job done.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

 

[autigeremt 7,208]

On 5/30/2022 at 10:48 AM, icanthearyou said:

I apologize.   The broad brush just wasn't getting the job done.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

 

It’s either that or a party that is doing everything it can to implode the current nation we live in. Good ole duopoly’s power grab. 

[icanthearyou 4,468]

On 5/29/2022 at 1:53 PM, creed said:

I’m not going freely or quietly. 

In reality, it is much worse.  You are contributing.

[creed 1,790]

1 hour ago, icanthearyou said:

In reality, it is much worse.  You are contributing.

Not sure what you mean by that but please explain. 

[icanthearyou 4,468]

47 minutes ago, creed said:

Not sure what you mean by that but please explain. 

I am sorry.  I don't believe that I can.  I do not see any ambiguity.