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Ilhan Omar speech proved to be mistranslated but outrage continues spread (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Republicans, rightwing figures and foreign politicians have seized upon the video despite proof the lawmaker was misquoted

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, has gone furthest in her response to the clip, calling Omar a “foreign agent in our government”. Greene, a leading supporter of Donald Trump, who also attempted to censure the Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib in November, called Omar a “terrorist sympathizer” on X last week, adding: “Somalian first. Muslim second. She never mentions America.”

I vote we should be allowed to see ALL donors of ALL politicians. full disclosure. And ban super-PACS altogether. We'll see whose the foreign agent.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago

We already voted on that bill. The Republicans voted against it, for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Who's

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

on first.

What's on second.

I don't know is on third

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's what I said!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

THIRD BASE!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://www.opensecrets.org/

People in our government are required to financially disclose their finances, and anyone who doesn't should absolutely be investigated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

How many book sales are a form of getting around suspicious reporting, though? They write (or have shadow writers write) a book; sell them in bulk to... "super pacs" or whatevers; which are entirely funded by... russians, chineese, american oligarchs, etc.

They also report late, or not at all. (Mike Johnson doesn't have a bank account? interesting.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's cute

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago

Do something about that ratfuck Bob Menendez first

[–] [email protected] 86 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Even if she did say "Somalians first..." how many White Americans call themselves Irish or Italian? And have parades celebrating how Irish or Italian they are?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Right, but Irish and Italian people aren't black. Or Muslim.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They didn’t used to be considered white either

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

And they won't again, once those pesky melanin-heavy people are back in their "proper" place.

[fondly remembering the days when nazi ideology was a bad thing]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was sort of my point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Sometimes people reply to agree with you and add more flavor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It’s weird for any white American to say they are “Irish” first

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago

Conservative racism on display again. As always.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

There are 435 members of the house. Any guesses as to why we are disproportionately talking about Ilhan Omar?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

A week after a mistranslated clip of Ilhan Omar sparked outrage online, some far-right House Republicans are still following through with calls for the progressive lawmaker to be censured.

Greene, a leading supporter of Donald Trump, who also attempted to censure the Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib in November, called Omar a “terrorist sympathizer” on X last week, adding: “Somalian first.

The preliminary deal, termed a memorandum of understanding, would see Somaliland lease Ethiopia a naval base on the Gulf of Aden and grant it widened access to its Berbera port.

Omar defended her comments in the days that followed, saying the subtitles in the video were “not only slanted but completely off”, as she expressed her support for the government of Somalia, where she was born, as it finds itself embroiled in standoff with Ethiopia.

Omar vowed to thwart the deal, which the US has also expressed concerns over, telling people at the gathering in Minneapolis: “For as long as I am in Congress, no one will take over the seas belonging to the nation of Somalia and the United States will not support others who seek to steal from us.”

Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, criticised the move as a “frivolous censure resolution, designed to inflame and castigate and further divide us”.

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