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Posted on 07/08/2020 9:57:07 AM PDT by simpson96
In the latest back and forth between two fierce political rivals, Mayor Lori Lightfoot expressed outrage Thursday over a tweet by the Chicago Teachers Union that she called “clearly racist” and an example of a “right-wing” tactic.
There’s no love lost between the mayor and the ultra-progressive CTU, which gave Lightfoot her first major political test with an 11-day teachers strike last fall, just months after her election.
After months of accusations by the CTU that Lightfoot’s school policies are racist, the tables turned as the mayor accused the union of tweeting an offensive meme.
The CTU tweet, posted Wednesday evening, is a play on the ending of many episodes of the mystery cartoon “Scooby-Doo,” when the characters on the show capture and unmask the villain. In this case, the meme reveals the villain is Lightfoot in a Chicago police officer’s uniform. She is tied up with a rope around her torso and surrounded by the show’s characters, who are all white.
The tweet was captioned with calls to defund police and remove officers from Chicago Public Schools, two policy demands that the mayor has so far adamantly rejected.
Lightfoot said Thursday she hadn’t actually seen the tweet, “but it has been described to me.” She branded it “clearly racist,” “deeply offensive” and “borrowing a playbook from the right-wing.”
“If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them. And I think our scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU,” the mayor said during an unrelated news conference along the south lakefront.
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Her reaction just made it clear she's a racist who'll say anything - with a straight face and plenty of 'outrage' - to dodge responsibility.
Goes to show you how stupid and gullible the Dem voting base is in Chicago.
Priceless
The left is fighting the left.
She should be happy. The cartoon makes her look normal...not like Groot.
They seem to have started with “Everyone I don’t like is Hitler”.
Now we’re at “Everything I don’t like is racist”.
Turnips, for instance. Probably the most racist of all the vegetables. I don’t eat them.
Her know-it-all “clearly” is something she does a lot, and I think it’s a tell. She does it to try to convince people and get people nodding their heads in agreement with her, because she knows what she’s saying isn’t true.
Did she say, “Ruh-roh, Raggy!”
How can Scooby Doo be racist when Scooby is clearly a Dog Of Color?
Michelle Obama loves turnips. She grew some in her white house garden, and was pictured ‘caressing’ a very large turnip. Hugging it tightly to her cheeks.
Any group that includes so many voters who have been dead for decades is bound to be gullible and a group with a low average IQ.
This is almost 2 months old, why repost this now?
it is to the point where you have ultra left wing pols calling out ultra ultra left wing teachers unions!!
Pol: You’re a racist!
Union: You’re a racist!
Pol: you’re MORE racist!
Union: You’re more racist! And a poo Poo head!
It is a remarkably flattering rendering of an intrinsically unattractive person.
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Yeah Scooby looks browner than lightfoot
Lightfoot would not make the “team” on ANTIFA/BLM.
They always eat their own.
Huh. I thought it was homophobic, for sure. I stand corrected.
ZOINKS!
How would they know the perpetrator was black if that person was wearing a mask?
For that matter, I don't know anyone who I would call an antiSemite either.
Quite frankly, folks had better glad that all this racist talk is online because if I heard someone say it face-to-face, I might deliver a knuckle sandwich to said person.
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