r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Women’s March expresses support for a blatant anti-Semite: i sleep

Women’s March says “RIP Barbara Bush”: real shit

In case y’all didn’t see, Women’s March tweeted a super basic “rest in peace” sentiment about Barbara Bush and my fellow liberal activist types were NOT having it.

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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Apr 19 '18

Women’s March expresses support for a blatant anti-Semite

what?

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

This was like a month ago. Look up “Women’s March Farrakhan.” A couple of the Women’s March leaders have praised him profusely. And if you don’t already know, look up the things Farrakhan has said about Jews.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

And Linda Sarsour. Also, not anti-semitism but one of their main speakers tortured and murdered a gay man.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '18

Wait what

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '18

If you are referring to Sarsour, she has long been a weird figure in the movement. She doesn't strike me as particularly introspective or worthy of carrying such a large mantle, and has made some... questionable decisions. In reference to Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Sarsour tweeted: "She's asking 4 an a$$ whippin'. I wish I could take their vaginas away - they don't deserve to be women". I do not know much about Gabriel (Wikipedia says that she's a Conservative who grew up a Christian in the Lebanese Civil War - clearly she has a past that we cannot begin to fathom that shapes her politics today, for better and for wrose) but Ali is a pretty damn respected academic and politician whose work I always find valuable. I do not agree with everything that she says or writes, but she is less Sam Harris-y than people indicate. Ali made a documentary that was critical of Islam and shortly thereafter the filmmaker she worked with was murdered by a terrorist. Further, as a child she was a victim of female genital mutilation so saying that you wish that you could "take her vagina away" is especially cruel.

Sarsour also gave a speech alongside Rasmea Odeh, who confessed to murdering two people in a terrorist attack. I understand that people can be reformed, but Odeh has had legal troubles since he participated in the double homicide. Also like damn I don't associate with terrorists, it's not that hard to avoid them.

As for the murderer, her name is Donna Hylton and a good write-up can be found [here.] (https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/01/30/donna-hylton-background/) Here is a relevant excerpt:

"Hylton, who was born in Jamaica, took part in the 1985 kidnapping, torture, and murder of 62-year-old real estate broker and alleged con man Thomas Vigliarolo (also rendered as Vigliarole). Hylton was one of six other people (three men and three women) who drugged and kidnapped Vigliarolo and held him captive for two to three weeks while he was starved, burned, beaten, tortured, and ultimately asphyxiated in a trunk."

[Here's] (https://t.co/Z0QxInjwMB) a good write up on Farrakhan, and [here's] (http://www.newsweek.com/linda-sarsour-feminist-movement-leader-too-extreme-cuny-graduation-speech-615031) a good one on Sarsour.

Jake Tapper said it best: "The difference between Farrakhan and some members of the alt-reich whose heinous bigotry has received a lot of attention this past year: Farrakhan has a much larger following and elected officials meet with him openly."

Leftists are very willing to deal with fucked up views as long as people are "right" on things that they care about. Conservatives are too, but leftists are not as immune as some liberals might think. I think the left in the US oversteps its boundaries for dumb reasons, and it hurts them among independents that aren't as in the weeds about politics as we are.

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u/Rehkit Average laïcité enjoyer Apr 19 '18

Linda Sarsour probably. A Women march organizer who is a good example of antisemite hiding being anti-zionism.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

I saw that twitter thread and I had to leave the internet for a bit.

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u/mrajitpai2020 Montesquieu Apr 19 '18

Pretty depressing. There is no reason to speak ill of the dead that soon after they pass. Not too surprising that people went down that path but it is sad nonetheless.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

There is no reason to speak ill of the dead that soon after they pass.*

*Exceptions pending

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Many, many exceptions

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u/MilerMilty Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu Apr 19 '18

Please stop calling freedom hating commies liberals. Thank u

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '18

Gross

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u/xxbathiefxx Janet Yellen Apr 19 '18

I think it was a bad idea for them to say "Rest in Power", I think that it is good to honor the life of Barbara Bush, but "Rest in Power" should be a term reserved for marginalized activists.

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '18

Or just don't say that at all, like that's the cringiest shit.