As a fellow New Yorker, I think one of the things that we should talk about here is
also one of the disgusting legacies after 911 has been the targeting and
racism against Muslim Americans throughout the United States of America.
And this is an extension of that legacy, consistency.
There is nothing consistent with the Republican Party's continued attack except
for the racism and incitement, violence against women of color in this body.
I had a member of the Republican caucus threatened my life and
and the Republican caucus rewarded him with one of the most prestigious committee
assignments in this congress.
Don't tell me this is about consistency.
Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti Semitic remarks when
you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers.
And an entire amount of tropes and
also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body.
This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America.
Don't tell me because I didn't get a single apology, my life was threatened.
Thank you.
>> Republicans got what they wanted.
They got rid of Ellen Omar, at least from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
She persists and perhaps someday she'll get back on that committee.
In the meantime, I've loved the defense of Representative Omar.
I would have loved to have seen more of that sort of defense early on when
Fox News was demonizing her on a daily basis from people like Nancy Pelosi
and others.
But of course, Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has been in her
corner from the very beginning and her remarks were great.
She, I think points out a lot of the motivations that drove and
continue to drive the Republican crusade against Representative Omar and
I love that she did it that she wouldn't allow herself to be silenced.
We're gonna have a lot of people on the other side who were not happy about that.
But Brett, what do you think?
>> I mean, she's right and it's very obvious.
Now, what's happening generally is people like to say,
I know the crazies are gonna crazy but people somewhat in the quote
middle of the sanity spectrum loved the easy ones which are like,
I'll just say the far right and the far left and I'll equate them.
I'll say that Marjorie Taylor Green is the equal and opposite of AOC Ilhan Omar.
That's not the case like, yeah, Ilhan Omar did invoke
anti Semitic tropes knowingly or unknowingly she did it,
in like one of the five examples they always cite against her.
So, that's already unhinged.
Every time you look at a quote from Marjorie Taylor Greene it's
absolutely insane.
Every time you look at a quote from Lauren Barber, it's absolutely insane.
It's hateful and worse, it's like steeped in this petty stupid fake outrage.
You should be outraged that Ilhan Omar got taken off the committee's, why?
Because it is absolutely because she's a Muslim woman and they know it,
you see it in their eyes.
The fact that she wears a covering over her head makes them
absolutely furious and worse.
They know it's easy because their children on a play yard,
they're looking for things that are different and
being mean about them hoping that the people around them will cheer and
clap and give them clout and like a seat at the cool kids table.
>> Yeah, 100%.
And some of them probably, genuinely the new class of people like Marjorie Greene
probably actually personally are filled with those same sorts of resentment.
She is a person who would have just watched a bunch of Fox News, consumed
a bunch of conspiracy theories from Facebook and eventually got into Congress.
A lot of the other ones are just perfectly happy to use this because they know that
their base will eat it up.
They have been trained to hate Representative Omar.
They've been trained to demand that something happened to her,
at the very least getting her off of the committee.
They fantasies about what could happen to Representative Omar,
obviously go much farther than that.
And they will use that to placate the base and get what they really want, which for
a lot of these Republicans has absolutely nothing to do with.
The content of the committee's let alone the membership of the committee's,
it's financial, that's what they want.
But I love that she pointed out it has been decades now,
a couple of solid decades of Islamophobia.
It is 100% normalized hosts on Fox News can say absolutely horrendous things and
we'll get to some of them and there's no expectation,
there's not even hope of any sort of consequences.
It's like 100% allowed.
And I just hate it.
I love to see a strong defense of it.
AOC I think obviously has a working relationship with Representative Omar,
has been friends with her now for a few years.
And the idea that she would be taken off of a committee where she could not only
lend now her years of experience, but also her unique perspective is the first
naturalized person coming from Africa, serving on this committee.
And discussing things that have to do with that continent,
let alone its relations with others, is important.
It sucks to see her taken off.
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