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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,322 posts)
Sat May 20, 2023, 10:30 PM May 2023

Marjorie Taylor Greene shows her white nationalist cards -- again Greene rolls out racist tropes in

MTG is a white nationalist/racist bigot



https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-jamaal-bowman-n-word-rcna85188?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=6468783c53112900014c9ced&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

I thought MAGA true believer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., had exhausted her capacity to shock me. But she left me slack-jawed with her latest response to a theatrical feud with Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., in which she accused him of calling her the equivalent of the N-word, described him as physically threatening, and manufactured a new set of lies. Ms. Greene, I’m almost impressed.....

If you’re looking for a real point to this exchange, you’re unlikely to find any. Both of them were playing for the cameras, repeatedly smiling as they made a minor scene.



.....It should be obvious why Greene's comparison is offensive. The N-word is the most heinous slur in American English, the ultimate linguistic symbol of white domination of Black Americans that has no equivalent because there is no comparable history in this country of any other group of people being systematically treated as property, as subhuman, as an underclass for exploitation and undeserving of rights. And the reason it remains so potent today is that racial prejudice and vast racial inequality still prevail across the nation.

By contrast, “white supremacist” is not a slur but a descriptive term. It certainly can be abused to tar someone’s character or make false accusations, but it does not carry the weight or venom of any racial slur, let alone the most abominable one that exists. Moreover, Bowman’s condemnation of rhetoric that “uplifts white supremacy” was fair, considering that Greene has a documented history of subscribing to antisemitic conspiracy theories, associating with Holocaust-denying white nationalists like Nick Fuentes, and is one of the most prominent Trump-aligned politicians in the country.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene shows her white nationalist cards -- again Greene rolls out racist tropes in (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 OP
She instantly... 2naSalit May 2023 #1
OMG totally.... She's the Uber Karen on steroids! Blue Owl May 2023 #2
The Uber Karen is right! ShazzieB May 2023 #3
And steroids fits with her gym obsessions which is how she manhandles her Kevin. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #5
When "white supremacist" stings, the shoe probably fits. Bernardo de La Paz May 2023 #4
He was on Chris Hayes malaise May 2023 #6
MTG is putting Congressman Bowman's life at risk LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #7

2naSalit

(86,650 posts)
1. She instantly...
Sat May 20, 2023, 10:59 PM
May 2023

Reminded me of that horrible person who tried get that man killed in the park by lying to the police on the phone.

ShazzieB

(16,426 posts)
3. The Uber Karen is right!
Sun May 21, 2023, 12:30 AM
May 2023

I like that; it describes her to a T. MTG personifies all the traits associated with the "Karen" stereotype: the officious, "I'm always right" attitude, the air of righteous indignation whenever things don't go to suit her (no matter the circumstances or reasons involved), the "my way or the highway" insistence that her viewpoint is the only possible correct or acceptable one.

All hail MTG, the Uber Karen!

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,011 posts)
4. When "white supremacist" stings, the shoe probably fits.
Sun May 21, 2023, 06:27 AM
May 2023

Non-WS people accused of WS can laugh it off.

WS people have to go into full-throated gibbon-face denial complete with a disgustingly over-played victim card.

Out of thin air eMpTyGreene has ginned up a controversy over phraseology and thereby she succeeded partially in diverting attention away from the fundamental issue: she is a stupid racist who is barely smart enough to keep it concealed most of the time.
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