It's STILL traumatizing. Even now. RE-watching Kennedy commit a hate-crime, in a congressional hearing, and seeing NO ONE stop him.
I think people who are part of the racial & religious majority have no idea just how THREATENING that is. (I don't mean Kennedy & company; I only mean people.) Kennedy & company know precisely how threatening that is. Kennedy & company INTEND that threat. Kennedy & company know a lot of the white-supremacist terrorists who would ACT on that threat.
I felt fear. ME. As a non-Muslim. From a fairly long DISTANCE from Washington. Watching that through a SCREEN. Happening to SOMEONE ELSE. I still FELT it.
Those aren't just words. Dehumanizing words are a THREAT. Hate-speech is a THREAT.
I understand that the combination of SHOCK at the crudeness of their racism, as well as her need to put on a brave face, combined to make her laugh... but she MUST have been terrified! Given the fact that MY heart was racing. Given the fact that NO ONE IN THAT ROOM came to her defence!
To be in a public place, when NO ONE SEEMS TO MIND that you're being victimized, feels as vulnerable as being alone in a dark alley.
What a wonderful lady, and so sad for her plight. Kennedy is a very ignorant and rude person, he needs two bags to hide his head in - he always looks like he forgot to put his teeth in! How such a person gets anywhere near a governing job is beyond me. If only Americans were more tuned in to what their government does, and who is in that government; perhaps things would be a lot better.
p.s. I know ad hominem remarks are not polite but since Kennedy doesn't mind throwing them around, neither do I !
I just can't believe that MSNBC would not have aired at least Kennedy's racist remark. It's just beyond belief, how the mainstream media is just silent. Just aweful.
Reading that resolution, I can't help but deeply resent the fact that the racist Congress MOCKED the resolution, by forcing the completely out-of-place inclusion of "anti-Semitism."
They clearly weren't motivated by a wish to ban ALL forms of bigotry, because antisemitism is the ONLY form of bigotry that was crammed into the resolution, despite having NOT been a motive for the crime.
There was no mention of anti-Black racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Asian & Pacific Islander racism, etc., and THAT IS FAIR, because the resolution was (or was supposed to be) about the savage bigotry that killed Wadee.
And yet: The racist thugs that write America's laws, crow-barred "anti-Semitism" into it.
They didn't even see fit to include the term "anti-Muslim," but they found plenty of room to stuff "anti-Semitism" into the resolution. Into THIS resolution. This resolution, which was necessitated by some of the deadly savagery that is INCITED by false accusations of antisemitism... by false descriptions of antisemitic violence... by bearing false witness to nonexistent antisemitic crimes... and by the HYSTERICAL AMPLIFICATION OF ALL OF THOSE FALSE PORTRAYALS OF ANTISEMITISM.
These Republicans must be so used to hearing each other denigrating people. That man sitting behind Kennedy didn’t even look up when he said that horrible remark. Unbelievable
It's STILL traumatizing. Even now. RE-watching Kennedy commit a hate-crime, in a congressional hearing, and seeing NO ONE stop him.
I think people who are part of the racial & religious majority have no idea just how THREATENING that is. (I don't mean Kennedy & company; I only mean people.) Kennedy & company know precisely how threatening that is. Kennedy & company INTEND that threat. Kennedy & company know a lot of the white-supremacist terrorists who would ACT on that threat.
I felt fear. ME. As a non-Muslim. From a fairly long DISTANCE from Washington. Watching that through a SCREEN. Happening to SOMEONE ELSE. I still FELT it.
Those aren't just words. Dehumanizing words are a THREAT. Hate-speech is a THREAT.
I understand that the combination of SHOCK at the crudeness of their racism, as well as her need to put on a brave face, combined to make her laugh... but she MUST have been terrified! Given the fact that MY heart was racing. Given the fact that NO ONE IN THAT ROOM came to her defence!
To be in a public place, when NO ONE SEEMS TO MIND that you're being victimized, feels as vulnerable as being alone in a dark alley.
I watched some of that hearing. It was disgusting. Sen Kennedy is the worst of the worst no doubt.
What a wonderful lady, and so sad for her plight. Kennedy is a very ignorant and rude person, he needs two bags to hide his head in - he always looks like he forgot to put his teeth in! How such a person gets anywhere near a governing job is beyond me. If only Americans were more tuned in to what their government does, and who is in that government; perhaps things would be a lot better.
p.s. I know ad hominem remarks are not polite but since Kennedy doesn't mind throwing them around, neither do I !
I just can't believe that MSNBC would not have aired at least Kennedy's racist remark. It's just beyond belief, how the mainstream media is just silent. Just aweful.
Reading that resolution, I can't help but deeply resent the fact that the racist Congress MOCKED the resolution, by forcing the completely out-of-place inclusion of "anti-Semitism."
They clearly weren't motivated by a wish to ban ALL forms of bigotry, because antisemitism is the ONLY form of bigotry that was crammed into the resolution, despite having NOT been a motive for the crime.
There was no mention of anti-Black racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Asian & Pacific Islander racism, etc., and THAT IS FAIR, because the resolution was (or was supposed to be) about the savage bigotry that killed Wadee.
And yet: The racist thugs that write America's laws, crow-barred "anti-Semitism" into it.
They didn't even see fit to include the term "anti-Muslim," but they found plenty of room to stuff "anti-Semitism" into the resolution. Into THIS resolution. This resolution, which was necessitated by some of the deadly savagery that is INCITED by false accusations of antisemitism... by false descriptions of antisemitic violence... by bearing false witness to nonexistent antisemitic crimes... and by the HYSTERICAL AMPLIFICATION OF ALL OF THOSE FALSE PORTRAYALS OF ANTISEMITISM.
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These Republicans must be so used to hearing each other denigrating people. That man sitting behind Kennedy didn’t even look up when he said that horrible remark. Unbelievable
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