Posted on 06/09/2021 4:49:07 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Honestly Mara, this says much more about you than it does me: NYT, MSNBC’s Mara Gay: ‘Disturbing’ to see ‘dozens of American flags’ on trucks on Long Island
Ok, so she’s on the editorial board of the New York Times, and this is America after all - she’s allowed her ignorant, incorrect opinions just like the next guy (unless you support President Trump).
It turns out Mara is offended by Trump supporters, who she believes are all knuckle-dragging, flag waving white supremacists.
“I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend, and I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with explicatives [sic] against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing … Essentially the message was clear: This is my country. This is not your country. I own this,” Gay said.
She claimed Americans would continue to see things like that until the country was ready to have the conversation about “whiteness,” adding her concern that “a large percentage of Americans” don’t understand the threat that it is.
First of all Mara, are you trying to tell me that there were no anti-Trump bumper stickers with “explicatives” on them from 2016-20? Or were they okay because…Trump!? Secondly, what part of the American flag do you find disturbing? Why is this just fine:
Minneapolis, 2020
…but this is not?
Long Island, 2021
The NYT defended their editorial board member, claiming her words were “taken out of context” which has become the default argument when you have nothing.
Feel free to view the full “context” of her MSNBC clip to confirm there is no other argument to be made. That she was talking about this in context of the January 6 “insurrection” changes absolutely nothing, her words are her words:
“The reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population — I don’t know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others,” Gay said in response to MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski calling for an investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“I think that as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue,” Gay said, turning to race and adding that “Americanness” and “whiteness” needed to be separated.
Let alone a seat on the New York Times editorial board
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Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
Expletive trump...
i literally was faced with that on th 6th of january when i went to DC...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZHUotUfIE
no terrorists there.
Gay needs to check her Marxist Fragility.
her voice was hacked
When, and it is not a question of “if” anymore, America is under military threat from one or more foreign powers, these “people” are not going to defend her.
What will we do with them? Will we have the courage to do what needs to be done?
The “Press” puts their feelings about America on display along with their underwear. This same rot is in all levels of “education” and government.
Martin Luther King Jr. is rolling over in his grave.
His message has been so inverted it is not even possible to quote without first taking a nerve calming drug.
"Judged by the content of your character, not the color of your skin".
Read later.
Hillary found out insulting 75+ million is not a good thing. They got by with a steal for now. When proof comes out and they can’t do it again they will be sorry. The dems leader biden will ruin them if they don’t get him out soon. Put kamala in and it will be worse. GOD has a sense of humor.
Don't bother, it will only raise your blood pressure and waste several minutes of your life.
I wonder, when she says “this weekend” does she mean literally the 5th and 6th of June? Or does she mean recently on A weekend. Like maybe last weekend, the 29th and 30th of May. Or, as it is known to some people, Memorial Day weekend!
That would explain all the flags, right?
“...The NYT defended their editorial board member, claiming her words were “taken out of context” ..”
HOW ignorant. There is only ONE ‘context’ for the interpretation and the existence of the US flag. It is THE stand alone emblem of our sovereignty !
Just as the flag of any nation on earth is THEIR symbol of sovereignty!
Communist, racist America hater, like 44.
BTTT!
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