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Clyburn defends Holocaust comments
The Hill ^ | 3/7/2019 | mike lillis

Posted on 03/07/2019 2:06:07 PM PST by bitt

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Thursday defended controversial comments he made this week related to the Holocaust, saying that dark chapter of history — and the Jewish suffering that accompanied it — was uniquely horrific and he would never diminish its significance.

"Every student of history, which I consider myself to be, recognizes the Holocaust as a unique atrocity which resulted in the deaths of six million Jews," he said in a statement posted to Twitter. "It should never be minimized; I never have and I never will."

Clyburn came under fire Thursday from Republicans and some Jewish groups after saying the experience of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) — a freshman Democrat who fled violence in her country and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp — was "more personal" than that of those whose parents suffered through the Holocaust or other historical instances of savage violence and human rights abuse.

"I'm serious about that. There are people who tell me, 'Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.' 'My parents did this.' It's more personal with her," Clyburn told The Hill.

"I've talked to her, and I can tell you she is living through a lot of pain."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; clyburn; holocaust; ilhanomar; jamesclyburn; omar
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To: philman_36

what he’s saying, with a straight face, is, her pain is larger and more valid than the pain of slavery, holocaust, American war widows and children, or any other pain that can ever be imagined in the world.

Because little miss privileged is muslim. And her granddaddy had to flee Somali after the murderous Marxist regime he was part of collapsed.

People who’ve been through hurricanes and tornados have more ‘pain’ than this manipulative brat.


41 posted on 03/07/2019 4:26:56 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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42 posted on 03/07/2019 4:28:19 PM PST by leopud
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To: bitt

So was slavery


43 posted on 03/07/2019 5:11:57 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: bitt

Clyburn needs to visit the Holocaust Museum in DC.


44 posted on 03/07/2019 5:16:57 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: BadLands59

Like suggest Clyburn is and always has been an idiot and a poor excuse for a human being?


45 posted on 03/07/2019 5:31:21 PM PST by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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To: bitt

Another old timer...will be 79 in the Summer months...

Sick and tired of using the U.S. Capital as a ‘Senior Day Care Center’

We need age/term limits, NOW more than ever..


46 posted on 03/07/2019 6:14:09 PM PST by haircutter
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To: bitt

Clyburn is about 5 cans short of a 6 pack, and more dangerous than spilled beer. He is one of the most extreme leftists of the Congressional Black Caucus and that takes some doing with Ryan, Lee, Lee Jackson, Waters, Carson, Lewis Cummings and Johnston in the competition.


47 posted on 03/07/2019 7:55:30 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: bitt

So Clyburn, a guy who has made a career out of playing the “but slavery” card from 159 years ago doesn’t see the irony in him minimizing the holocaust in favor of Somalia’s muslim genocide of Christians. A war by the way, in which Omar supports the genocidal islamist murderers and then used the conflict as an excuse to get into the united states. The democrat party hates America and needs to be destroyed before they destroy this country


48 posted on 03/07/2019 8:02:19 PM PST by photodawg
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Interesting. But 21st century blacks, even those like Barak Obama and I presume Ilhan Omar, are connected to 18th and 19th century slavery. Dare I mention that according the liberal politically ADL's Survey of Antisemitism, blacks have the highest level of antisemitic attitudes. Since the inception of the survey decades ago. Hispanics high also, particularly immigrants, but those attitudes decrease in successive generations in the US. I'd like to think they'll disappear as Clyburn's generation fades, but I doubt it. As Comgresswoman Schakowsky would say, it's just their culture.

49 posted on 03/08/2019 4:45:48 AM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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Dare I mention that according the liberal politically ADL's Survey of Antisemitism, blacks have the highest level of antisemitic attitudes.

Yes, I remember that ADL survey from about 20 years ago. Didn't get very much publicity, because it was so "politically incorrect" in left-leaning circles.

However, if they had included Muslims as a separate demographic group in that ADL Survey, one would think that the Muslims would have the dubious distinction of having even a higher percentage of anti-Semitic attitudes.

50 posted on 03/08/2019 8:55:48 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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Clyburn is pathetic with his lame excuses for Omar's full-throated anti-Semitism. And what the heck do Omar's childhood experiences in Somalia have to do with Israel or Jewish people anyhow?
51 posted on 03/08/2019 9:11:04 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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Some life forms only function is to be permanently aggrieved...


52 posted on 03/08/2019 10:19:42 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: justiceseeker93

Her childhood experiences have nothing to do with her islamonaxism. That comes from her sick perverted Islamic “religious” training.


53 posted on 03/08/2019 10:31:16 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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54 posted on 03/08/2019 10:33:31 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: justiceseeker93
Dare I mention that according the liberal politically ADL's Survey of Antisemitism, blacks have the highest level of antisemitic attitudes.
One reason the PC "not sees" call the late great Satchmo an Uncle Tom?(as if those dumbasses have the slightest understanding of the main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin) He wore a Star of David to show graditude to the Karnofsky's, a very kind Jewish family who befriended and helped him as he grew up in New Orleans.

55 posted on 03/08/2019 2:26:45 PM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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One reason the PC "not sees" call the late great Satchmo an Uncle Tom?(as if those dumbasses have the slightest understanding of the main character of Uncle Tom's Cabin) He wore a Star of David to show graditude to the Karnofsky's, a very kind Jewish family who befriended and helped him as he grew up in New Orleans.

Yes, this is typical of a change for the worse in Jewish-black relations over time. In the twentieth century up until about the mid-1960s (including the period of Lois Armstrong's youth), Jewish-black relations were in general significantly better than they became in later years.

56 posted on 03/08/2019 2:44:18 PM PST by justiceseeker93
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