No, they surely don't. It would have been a simple and consistent thing to take affirmative action, such as that they supported for Rep. Steve King, against Rep. Omar for her very apparent and casually expressed antisemitism. But leave it to them to rewrite one of the millenia old verities of criminal law (criminal law now being, for the left, an organic element of adversarial politics). "No longer will we punish the perpetrator; rather we will task the crime itself and minister correction to it alone! Excepted from this amendment is the present President; he must answer in ongoing proceedings and indeed his close confinement is to expected".
I can just picture it. "You have been found guilty of the crime of . . . . You are sentenced to . . . immediate personal exoneration and relief from all legal disabilities. The crime for which you were convicted will be publicly chastised at and by. . . ."
How very artificial it was of Nancy Pelosi to word the resolution opposite to concepts like "hate" and "bigotry" instead of citing an apparently hateful and bigoted person sitting in her own caucus. Since she and her party consider the definition of hate to be that of insolent opposition to their irrefutable wisdom, this was slick indeed (shades of slick willie). In doing so they fancied themselves freed of the responsibility for specificly taking to task their antisemitic colleague publicly (privately they excuse her). And they arrogated to themselves the focus of the condemnation on those they know to be their fundamental enemy, the real America.
As for "bigotry", its definition is that of unreasoning and intolerant support for a specific creed . Why, this defines the American left! Their reflexive excoriation of all who question them is legend.
I spent twenty years working with state prison inmates and they were very clever in composing, ehhh, disingenuous language. One said to me "maybe there should be a riot and some people should get their throats cut" after I enforced on him a common prison rule. He expected he would not be held responsible for the obvious threat he had uttered because his wording did not express an intention.He should have been indicted. I'm not surprised that leftists seek to enfranchise cons. They think just like them. They think any amoral or senseless device of theirs excused by their consummate and self evident righteousness.
Its time to revisit the brilliant and courageous David Horowitz's 2004 book Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left. In it he soundly documents the sympathy and empathy expressed and enacted by America hating leftist Americans for kindred radical Islam. Too, the journal Commentary has held forth at length over the increasingly open and obvious antisemitism of a significant faction of the left worldwide.
Gads! I am sick to death of antisemitism, that ancient and deathless scourge! I've never understood its ferociousness and its persistence. It must be visceral, no more, no less and it must be met with equally essential intolerance. Though opposition to Israel is not by definition antisemitism, its inordinate extent and intensity world wide is plainly indicative of motivation by unmitigated, essential Jew hatred.
In the '60's it was hard to imagine scruffy America hating whelps someday exercising decisive institutional power just as it may now seem a reach to picture such as Reps. Omar and AOC someday exercising totalitarian rule. But we know better now don't we?
How many countries have or would now admit to their law making institutions members determined to destroy their nations and to replace them with their very antitheses ? That we do bespeaks a laudably principled political culture but we must not exalt these wrongheaded dreamers; we must disempower them and their apologists. Luckily the democracy they would extinguish affords us still the means to do so, if we remain true to our precious heritage and fully appreciate the continuing threat to it. Jack
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Jack, I certainly would never deny Rep. Omar her right of free speech (and, in fact, in the interests of Republicans I would encourage her to exercise it), but it's clear that she is, intentionally or unintentionally, skirting the line of offensiveness and "hate". Now, in my view, she hasn't said anything clearly and blatantly anti-Semitic, so much as she's criticized the Israel lobby in, well, imprudent ways. As you say, criticizing a lobby and hating a "race" or a religion are not the same thing, but one would not be shocked if someone like Omar DID harbor anti-Semitic views, since they are so common among those of her ideological persuasion. The real point for me, in any case, is that once again Democrats are being hoisted on their own petard. Having denounced "hatred", they must now reckon with the undeniable fact that many of their favored groups hate EACH OTHER. Modern liberalism is based on the conceit that only rich white male Christian heterosexuals can ever be BAD, so, when reality intrudes and someone who isn't rich, white, male, Christian, or heterosexual misbehaves, the Left hasn't a clue how to act... It simply doesn't compute.
Dr. Waddy: Remember when slick willy (I refuse to capitalize when he is cited) was first running and "Sistah Souljah" snidely proposed that since whites were apparently free to kill blacks with impunity that there ought to be a designated day when blacks could kill whites free of legal consequences. In words to this effect she said "oh, no, I'm not advocating killing white people, I'm just saying". I think Rep. Omar embraces similar disingenuous, Brer Rabbity "reasoning" and refrains from expressing open advocacy for the annihilation of Israel simply because she knows that would get her run out of town just now.
That said; I'm confident in the ability of the real America to read her and I agree with you in that I hope she continues to blat. Oh no, I'd never deny her the rights her American citizenship guarantees her, even though I can see she is beyond understanding how precious they are and how lucky she is to be free of what Somalia might have done to one as free spirited as she.
It is clear that the American left is fully invested in antipathy and intimidation. And I agree, they are quite unable to direct it in any semiprincipled way to those among them who, in proven leftist tradition, evince presumptuous totalitarian sociopathy.
Rep. Omar: Israel is one of the most courageous nations extant and the real America responds to that with the conviction that we will always stand with it. Israel is the embodyment of a civilization which has survived oppression almost unparalleled over two millenia and has, in consequence, created out of a geographically strictured wasteland, a modern, humane, democratic nation determined to survive. You cannot destroy the faith the real America invests in this country so very much like ours. Young woman, you should step down from your profoundly ungrateful attack on a cause your adopted country has, since well before your birth, embraced!
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