Some similarities between the CRT troll and the Omar troll.
By the time Republicans and centrist Democrats had united late last week to scold Representative Ilhan Omar for a tweet—one of the few pastimes that still draw the two parties together, and something those selfsame chiders would doubtlessly decry, under different circumstances, as cancel culture or censorship—it no longer mattered what, exactly, Omar had said. They had already managed to make a news cycle out of it: mission accomplished.
Now, following Democratic outrage and Republican calls for a floor vote to strip Omar of her committee assignments, let me record the following for posterity: Omar demonstrably did not say what she’s been accused of having said; what she did say was true; and every politico using this opportunity to take a swing at her likely knows those two things—they just think you don’t...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/what-ilhan-omar-actually-said/619196/
I doubt any bashers here will read all of this article and concede any of its factual points, but YNK.
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You would be wrong. I read the article.
and without parsing every argument made, it seems the author's point hinged on Omar telling the truth.
I think Omar told a truth, but not the truth.
Have atrocities been committed in war, yes. Can we judge relativity or context?
We should.
Did Omar?
In my opinion she did not. If she did, she would have been more circumspect in her argument and approach.
Should I equate the atrocities committed by the Germans and Japanese in WW2 with those committed by the US?
Were the victims of US atrocities any less victimized?
that seems to be Omar's argument.
I will leave it to others far more pure than I to make that call.
Further, as already posted, Omar used a very limited platform in Twitter.
A nuanced and complicated matter as this is, would have been far better addressed in a speech or a multi-page press release. Not a 200 character post. And she knew better, and her press people knew better.
But she knowingly grabbed some publicity off the blood of victims by issuing a headline grabbing tweet that appealed to certain of her supporters. She now says that the obvious false equivalence of her tweet was not meant in the manner it was received.
Bullshit.
So I read the article, and agree she told a truth.
But not the truth.
Fuck her.
ymmv