Posted on 02/02/2019 11:44:37 AM PST by jazusamo
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has come under fire for anti-Semitic comments in the past. During an interview with on "The Daily Show," Omar explained how she never tried to be anti-Semitic but she understands how her comments could be deemed anti-Semitic. The most interesting aspect: Omar compares her being blind to her anti-Semitism to white people who don't understand they have "white privilege."
There are so many things wrong with this interaction.
1) If Omar was truly interested in learning how to change her ways and her thinking, she would come out and say, "I'm an anti-Semite but I don't want to be. Can you please help me?" She would be upfront and honest about it. She wouldn't be so wishy washy about where she stands. And she wouldn't make an excuse for why she thinks the way she does.
2) Again, if she was truly interested in "overcoming her ways" she wouldn't have taken so long to come to this realization. It wouldn't have taken all of the public backlash she's received.
3) Why does every conversation revert to "white privilege?" We could have two people who grew up in the same exact neighborhood under the same exact circumstances, the one difference being the color of their skin. If they're both given the same college education and the white kid succeeds then it's because of his skin color. What happened to equality of opportunity? Why does everything have to revert back to race? And at one point do we, as a society, reject the idea that race is the greatest underlying force behind someone's success? Thought all of that was supposed to end when President Obama became America's leader.
On Thursday, @IlhanMN made a crucially important point about antisemitism on @TheDailyShow : Just as white folks have to unlearn white privilege, non-Jews have to unlearn antisemitism—and that can be a process.
Thank you, Ilhan, for your vulnerability about your process.
Oh brother, this Muslim is a real piece of work.
Yeah, and unmarry your brother...chitbird
Yes ladies and gentlemen, this is what democraps are importing into Congress.
Somalia - the worst country in the world.
She’ll never “unlearn” the Koran’s permission to lie like a rug to those outside her ...uh...”faith”.
She is slime. Slimy slime. Slippery, slimy slime. Almost as loathsome as Hillary.
Virginia Gov didn’t understand his racism either so should we just forgive him too?
If you say Taqiya three times a Muslim will lie... just the same as if you don't say Taqiya.
Uh yeah. Inbred so it ain’t gonna happen. Now, I gotta go polish my “WP”.
She is not “blind to her anti-Semitism!”
Islam preaches/teaches/insists that Moslems hate Jews!
They grow up being taught to hate Jews!
Do you suppose she is willing to renounce Islam, remove her headgear, become an apostate Moslem and become a Christian to show that she rejects her anti-Semitism?
Someone should challenge her to do just that to prove her sincerity!
Its embedded in her, after all she’s a Muslim..Muslims hate Jews, if she were not a Congresswoman she would be on a bus in Jerusalem blowing herself up
Like Roseanne said, Democrats put Hamas in Congress
She talks like someone from the third grade
Bump!
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Or maybe she’d be strapping bombs on her children to kill Jews. That’s THEIR privilege.
“Somalia - the worst country in the world.”
Right next to the sh...hole the 0panzy comes from . a muzzle is a evil thing
So Ilhan Omar has Moslem privilege problems?
Oh well, surely she does realize that her noble goal of becoming non-Anti-semitic could get her killed by another Moslem for apostasy? (Not that she shouldn’t try.)
Democrats will cause the destruction of the United States of America. They rebel against anything that’s good, normal, decent or traditional.
Quick, some re-reorientation photos. Code word MAURNEEN DOWD I say again, MAUREEN DOWD.
So, Ocasio and Pelosi has turned the House of Representatives into some sort of freaky rehab center on The Hill?
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