WATCH: MSNBC Commentator Anand Giridharadas Gets Triggered at ‘Freedom-Obsessed’ Americans

NewsBusters ^ | 5/6/2020 | Joseph Vazquez

[humblegunner]

“Banned or suspended” account say what?

Mostly say "You Got Punked".

Are there any other instances of you getting fooled that you would like to point out?

[Retain Mike]

Clearly, he does not qualify as an American, Since the founding of the colonies and for all time Americans would be defined as sovereign individuals who find their identity in exercising pre-existing intangible liberties accompanied by the hazards and uncertainties accompanying these personal freedoms. Their ethnicity, gender, class, and race would always be secondary expressions of humanity.

Before the Revolution the colonists were not Americans. The charters they operated on from Britain demanded slavery and the one New England colony that tried to abolish it had the law nullified by the British. Between the Revolution and the Constitutional Convention, six of thirteen colonies abolished slavery.

The greatest danger James Madison saw for our new republic was from a tyranny of the majority trampling the liberties of the few.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Than GOD(!) for

“”... a primordial American tradition going back to the founders of being freedom-obsessed””

[elengr]

Without our natural rights recognized by Second Amendment the rest of our freedoms are just a veil of vapors and the Constitution is just meaningless words on parchment.

The entire point of the Second Amendment is to instill in our public servants a healthy respect (if not downright fear) of their sovereign masters (i.e., We the People). The Second Amendment does not grant, but merely recognizes our natural right to arm ourselves with state-of-the-art weaponry to a level that the fools in the feral government should fear for their lives such that they never be tempted to overstep their limited and temporary powers.

[Paladin2]

What is our relationship to the vocal, hysterical Commie, fascist media?

[Arones]

Gotcha. Thanks.

[Montaignes Cat]

Very well put.

[Secret Agent Man]

i believe it was because they are aware that some states have varying issues regarding it, some hit harder than others, populations spread out more in some than others, some way less cases than others, so its not a one size fits all national decree

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[hanamizu]

“...even though we’re a country founded on slavery, genocide...”

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Yep, slavery and genocide, that’s us. Face it, we’re the worst nation on the planet. Perhaps there’s a Pulitzer Prize in Giridharadas’s future. Spit.

[Terry L Smith]

Buy this fer-in-er a one way ticket out of the country is my nice suggestion ... otherwise, the spot between the 5th and sixth rib is an excellent choice!

[elcid1970]

Wanna bet anyone here knows the name of that soldier and the flag he raised?

Anyway, Anand Giridharadas is U.S. born and he’s kind of a mixed bag; since he was raised here it might be interesting to ask him to flesh out his definition of `freedom obsessed’. Strange, since even his sympathetic portrait of modernized India acknowledges that it is still a caste-based society.

Might be no different than Bill Clinton’s cornpone collectivism as noted here. Would like to know his views on gun control.

[Ann Archy]

What the hell kind of name is that???

[DJ MacWoW]

The leftist is of Indian descent. He’s certainly no Dinesh D’Souza. Probably because he grew-up here and Dinesh came searching for freedom and opportunity.

[A strike]

Anand Giriharadas Go back to your shithole country, Get the hell out !!

[Ann Archy]

India IS pretty much a CRAP HOLE country. The Most FREQUENTLY requested gift for a wedding present is a BATHROOM WITH A TOILET!!

They have huge blocks of tall apartment buildings that SHAR a TOILET with OTHER BUILDINGS!!!!! ANd HOT water ONLY at certain times! DIRTY and SMELLY!

[libertylover]

you knowmif trump was for the lockdown and the dems weren’t, you’d be hearing the exact opposite from the media you know its true

Yes, I do.

[SES1066]

So that we may know who is being talked about; [Picture 2010]

From Wikipedia; "Giridharadas was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Maryland, and Paris, France,by his Brahmin parents, Radhashyam and Nandini (née Lall) Giridharadas.His childhood visits to extended family members in India sparked an interest in that country that influenced his later writing.He studied politics and history at the University of Michigan.
After graduating from college, Giridharadas moved to Mumbai in 2003 as a consultant for the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he followed the path of his father, who was a director at McKinsey. In 2005, he became a journalist, covering India for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In 2009, after returning to the United States, he began to write the "Currents" column for those newspapers. He also writes longer magazine pieces. As of 2010, Giridharadas was a doctoral candidate at Harvard University.He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, an MSNBC commentator, and a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

[Steven Tyler]

The virus dies as the temperature increases.
Therefore, we should pump moar CO2 into the atmosphere, to raise global temperatures and kill off the virus.

(Ducking to avoid flying pieces of progressives heads)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Here’s a rich irony...but not a great one...for decades the Democrats have been foisting this end of the world scenario on us (global warming) as a means of achieving permanent political power and totalitarian control of society. They’ve never given it up. Now, this virus panic thing falls into their lap, giving them what they hoped all these years that global warming would give them. Presto Shazam, out of the blue, their totalitarian wet dream.