Lightfoot calls ‘Scooby-Doo’ meme of her posted by CTU ‘clearly racist’[after saying she hasn't seen it]

Sun Times ^ | June 18, 2020 | Fran Spielman and Nader Issa

[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.

[Trillian]

I wonder if she talks to her female companion that way.

[suthener]

“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.”

Think about how stupid that statement is. I’m sure the CTU is slap full of right wingers.

[Crim]

Old news.