Ilhan Omar just accused the US of "crimes against humanity," and equated the US government with the Taliban. Interesting strategy for holding the House in 2022.
https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1401985884191404041
The US occasionally does bad things. Hamas is a terrorist organization. A US member of Congress, who stands for a lot of issues that Hamas couldn’t care less about, should understand the difference. Ilhan Omar is not just equating us with terrorists, she’s normalizing terrorists.
It brings me no joy being forced to weigh in about the crazies on our side — I’d much rather tweet about THEIR crazies. But our extremists do real damage to issues we care about by constantly going out there & saying things that will hand control of Congress to the Republicans.
And at some point, some of us have to have the balls to step forward and admit, publicly, that Ilhan Omar doesn’t stand for us, and that we’re tired of her undercutting progressive values and the progressive agenda by saying incredibly dumb and offensive things.
And finally, as a gay man, the US gives me freedom, Hamas et. al. would throw me off a roof. It’s time we stopped idolizing groups and movements that hate most things, and people, we stand for and with.
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