Posted on 09/21/2024 7:16:38 PM PDT by DoodleBob
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Palestinian American U.S. lawmaker Rashida Tlaib on Friday condemned as racist a cartoon published in the conservative magazine National Review showing her with an exploding pager - a reference to an attack this week against members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"Our community is already in so much pain right now. This racism will incite more hate + violence against our Arab & Muslim communities, and it makes everyone less safe. It's disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism," Tlaib wrote on the social media platform X.
Tlaib, a Democrat who represents a district from Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives, is the lone Palestinian American lawmaker in the U.S. Congress. The Muslim American advocacy group Emgage Action, Democratic U.S. House members Cory Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, some local officials in Michigan and human rights groups also criticized the cartoon.
National Review did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The cartoon, published on Thursday, showed a woman sitting next to an exploding pager. The woman's desk in the cartoon had a name card saying "Rep. Tlaib" while the woman herself is shown saying: "ODD. MY PAGER JUST EXPLODED."
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The cartoon makes her more attractive than she is. You’d think that would please her.
She can say that Israel cannot exist
You cannot make fun of her
“Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoon showing her with exploding pager”
I condemn Rashida Tlaib. And she needs to buy a vowel; there’s one missing.
“Terrorists simply have NO SENSE OF HUMOR.”
Remember back in the olden days when we said that Democrats have no sense of humor? Now “Democrats” = “terrorists”, which is sad.
“they should have shown an Exploding Vibrator.”
Yes. That would be very good. You probably gave a meme cartoonist some inspiration with that one.
“from the river to the sea”
Or, as a FReeper posted recently regarding the pagers, “from the liver to the knee”.
I can smell that filth just looking at her pic.
She is so full of anger.
And, without any smattering of a sense of humor.
Typical muzzie.
Her friend ,called dont worry some people did something
ROFL. Rashida, you folks have not begun to suffer enough for what you have done. Shut up.
Concur. This jackass partied after Oct 7th. Pure scum.
Just go away Tlaib. Don’t go to Israel, but go to Jordan, where Palestinians live.
Her condemnation is meaningless because it’s not even condemnable.
She’s lucky it didn’t blow her testicles off.
We have 1st Amendment rights in this country. If Ratshidta doesn't like our Constitution she should go back to her middle eastern sh!thole and join forces there with her fellow Palestinian Murder Muslims instead of stinking up our country.
LOL! She can dish it out but she can’t take it!
You see, this is the problem. She is simply a US lawmaker (and Gawd help us she has that position), not a Palestinian American.
You have to have a heart of stone... not to laugh out loud.
Racist? Why, was the pager black?
Terrorists, & DemocRATS simply have NO SENSE OF HUMOR.
Fixed it.
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