Posted on 04/12/2019 10:04:21 PM PDT by conservative98
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., continues to ignite outrage while defending freshman colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar, this time by using a poem about the Holocaust to defend the Minnesota Democrat.
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She also shared an image of the words of "First they came ... ," the famous poem by German theologian Martin Niemöller that was inspired by the tragedies of the Holocaust. (The words are mounted on a wall at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.)
The poem reads:
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.
"Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.
"Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
Ocasio-Cortez's tweet sparked major backlash, with critics accusing her of trivializing the Holocaust and slamming her for doing so in defense of Omar, who has repeatedly fought off claims of anti-Semitism.
"There's something deeply disturbing about AOC making Holocaust references to defend an open and unrepentant anti-Semite who is merely being criticized," wrote Ben Shapiro, the conservative author and commentator.
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Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today.@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress.
We must speak out.
“First they came...” pic.twitter.com/ygOX1vhE9j— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 12, 2019
ALRIGHT!!!
Now I KNOW we will get 40 percent of the Jewish vote this time.
Dems are insulting them at every turn by either saying things like this or posting things like this or IGNORING things like this or DEFENDING things like this!!!!
Now “Omar, The Hater of Jews” (she needs an apt title) is an oppressed victim?!!!?
Good grief.
That many in the media will parrot this “speech is violence” codswallop is a demonstration how little they care about protecting speech when the speech is criticism of the Left https://t.co/91yZjeb1gT— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 13, 2019
And there’s something deeply disturbing about AOC making Holocaust references to defend an open and unrepentant anti-Semite who is merely being criticized— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) April 13, 2019
This is just a shameful attempt to chill speech. It belittles both the real victims of 9/11 and the Holocaust. https://t.co/RHkjQShk0c— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) April 13, 2019
No, @aoc, you do not get to diminish the murder of almost half my family by comparing it to criticism of your antisemitic colleague.
You should be ashamed for trying. https://t.co/Qq2uuuKaDY— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) April 13, 2019
“Criticism of Ilhan Omar is exactly the same as killing 6 million Jews” - @AOC
*send tweet* pic.twitter.com/rucVkHCnr8— Mujahed Kobbe (@MujahedKobbe) April 13, 2019
If criticizing an elected official is now incitement to violence, Donald Trump should get a permanent restraining order against the media.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 13, 2019
The lib media love their idiot https://t.co/ov7MyHh3tO— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) April 13, 2019
Jews will NEVER vote Repub.
BTW, that’s where she STARTS.
She ENDS with hating ALL Americans that love the Flag.
And many that don’t.
She won’t use the word “Christian” as easily because there are a lot of us.
She forgets that an attack on Jews is an attack on Christians.
Or maybe she doesn’t know that the old and new testaments are in the same book.
Re: didyousearch
Yeah, this was posted on Fox 40 minutes ago and it is not on FR anwywhere.
Do you know what you’re looking at?
30 percent do.
We can get to 40.
The same was said about we Catholics once too and we went majority for Trump.
The same was said about Hispanics but Trump is inching closer to 50 percent.
time will tell.
You may be right. I pray you’re wrong. We could use the help in FL.
I hope you’re right. there are dozens of reason for them NOT to vote Dem.
My God. What are we going to do with these two?
I guess the Dems are just gonna have to ...primary them.
They are killing the party with such thoughtless, idiotic, hateful, insensitive, etc. etc. etc.
I suppose this may help the GOP going into 2020, but it is just painful to watch the self-immolation of one of the main parties.
Just madness.
Is there even ONE grownup in the Dems left?
When Omar came for the Jews, I spoke out.
Ah, I’m usually wrong :)
I’m hoping this is one of the times i’m right :)
AOC is really lousy at the art of playing victim. The object isn’t to tick off 73% of America.
I know this wasn’t posted before.
Might as well ignore the keyword-morons you’ll never hear back from them.
The tone deafness of these people is mind boggling. Or, it’s just abject stupidity.
“...but it is just painful to watch the self-immolation of one of the main parties.”
Why?
‘Some people did something” is the real story. What does that means?
Muzzies believe Israeli intelligence did 9/11.
But msm won’t say that is what she meant.
Asshole on Crack (AOC) and Jihadina Omar need to be removed from their positions ASAP . Nough already .
How many people has AOC come for? /snark>
Hey I like those nicknames.
They are actually very popular among the all college educated yoots, and the non college educated non white yoots.
Omar has a picture of hitler above her bed.
God only knows what AOC has above her bed.
Who the heck is coming for her or Socialists? To equate criticism with being taken away to labor camps, tortured and killed is not only rediculous it is the ranting of the perpetual victim and is an attempt to shut down critcism and free speech.
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