Posted on 03/07/2019 2:06:07 PM PST by bitt
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) on Thursday defended controversial comments he made this week related to the Holocaust, saying that dark chapter of history — and the Jewish suffering that accompanied it — was uniquely horrific and he would never diminish its significance.
"Every student of history, which I consider myself to be, recognizes the Holocaust as a unique atrocity which resulted in the deaths of six million Jews," he said in a statement posted to Twitter. "It should never be minimized; I never have and I never will."
Clyburn came under fire Thursday from Republicans and some Jewish groups after saying the experience of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Minn.) — a freshman Democrat who fled violence in her country and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp — was "more personal" than that of those whose parents suffered through the Holocaust or other historical instances of savage violence and human rights abuse.
"I'm serious about that. There are people who tell me, 'Well, my parents are Holocaust survivors.' 'My parents did this.' It's more personal with her," Clyburn told The Hill.
"I've talked to her, and I can tell you she is living through a lot of pain."
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what he’s saying, with a straight face, is, her pain is larger and more valid than the pain of slavery, holocaust, American war widows and children, or any other pain that can ever be imagined in the world.
Because little miss privileged is muslim. And her granddaddy had to flee Somali after the murderous Marxist regime he was part of collapsed.
People who’ve been through hurricanes and tornados have more ‘pain’ than this manipulative brat.
“””….infecting the entire Democratic party…..””
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It’s like with a pregnancy.
Someone cannot be just “a little pregnant”.
It’s either “yes” or “no”.
So was slavery
Clyburn needs to visit the Holocaust Museum in DC.
Like suggest Clyburn is and always has been an idiot and a poor excuse for a human being?
Another old timer...will be 79 in the Summer months...
Sick and tired of using the U.S. Capital as a ‘Senior Day Care Center’
We need age/term limits, NOW more than ever..
Clyburn is about 5 cans short of a 6 pack, and more dangerous than spilled beer. He is one of the most extreme leftists of the Congressional Black Caucus and that takes some doing with Ryan, Lee, Lee Jackson, Waters, Carson, Lewis Cummings and Johnston in the competition.
So Clyburn, a guy who has made a career out of playing the “but slavery” card from 159 years ago doesn’t see the irony in him minimizing the holocaust in favor of Somalia’s muslim genocide of Christians. A war by the way, in which Omar supports the genocidal islamist murderers and then used the conflict as an excuse to get into the united states. The democrat party hates America and needs to be destroyed before they destroy this country
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Interesting. But 21st century blacks, even those like Barak Obama and I presume Ilhan Omar, are connected to 18th and 19th century slavery. Dare I mention that according the liberal politically ADL's Survey of Antisemitism, blacks have the highest level of antisemitic attitudes. Since the inception of the survey decades ago. Hispanics high also, particularly immigrants, but those attitudes decrease in successive generations in the US. I'd like to think they'll disappear as Clyburn's generation fades, but I doubt it. As Comgresswoman Schakowsky would say, it's just their culture.
Yes, I remember that ADL survey from about 20 years ago. Didn't get very much publicity, because it was so "politically incorrect" in left-leaning circles.
However, if they had included Muslims as a separate demographic group in that ADL Survey, one would think that the Muslims would have the dubious distinction of having even a higher percentage of anti-Semitic attitudes.
Some life forms only function is to be permanently aggrieved...
Her childhood experiences have nothing to do with her islamonaxism. That comes from her sick perverted Islamic “religious” training.
FYI!
Republican Jewish Coalition
Yes, this is typical of a change for the worse in Jewish-black relations over time. In the twentieth century up until about the mid-1960s (including the period of Lois Armstrong's youth), Jewish-black relations were in general significantly better than they became in later years.
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