Thread by @FrankJannuzi

@ElizabethHeng @AOC Elizabeth Heng can’t see a difference between advocating for universal health care and a living wage versus Pol Pot collectivizing all land ownership, emptying cities, killing everyone who is educated, and waging ethnic cleansing? Really?
Your propaganda proves you are unfit.

@ElizabethHeng @AOC I worked in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand, volunteered as an election officer in Kampong Cham province in 1993, studied Cambodia’s reconstruction in 1994-95, and supported the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal. I know a little about Pol Pot and his horrific brand of Maoism.

@ElizabethHeng @AOC To compare proposals for universal health care (we already have Medicare and Medicaid), a living wage (we already have a federal minimum wage), and action on climate change (most states are acting now...) to Khmer Rouge genocide is grotesque. It dishonors the million who died.

@ElizabethHeng @AOC It is inconceivable to me how Ms Heng, who’s father fled Cambodia and probably came to the very refugee camp where I later worked, could consider her propaganda as anything other than a grave insult to the hundreds of thousands of Cambodian victims of the Khmer Rouge.

@ElizabethHeng @AOC Ms Heng was born in USA in 1985, thanks in part to bipartisan refugee asylum policies of Ronald Reagan and a Democratic Congress — policies Trump and her GOP are attempting to reverse. Now that she and her family are safe, slam the door behind her?