Lawmaker gets threatened for his speech by special snowflake "political correctness" warriors

Northside Storm · Dec 30, 2015

Let me specify: a Republican Arab lawmaker tagged as a "Muslim terrorist" for having the gall to call Donald Trump a "moron".

(and get this, he isn't even Muslim)

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/fir...maker-faces-wrath-of-donald-trump-supporters/

A Republican state lawmaker from Virginia who stood up to Donald J. Trump is feeling the wrath of his angry supporters this week, facing a torrent of hectoring and death threats from people accusing him of being a Muslim terrorist.

David Ramadan, who described himself as the first immigrant to hold a seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates, called Mr. Trump a “moron” on Twitter earlier this week after the Republican presidential candidate criticized the state for requiring Republican voters to sign statements affirming their party affiliation.

Since then, Mr. Ramadan has received more than 5,000 hateful messages on Twitter and a flood of threatening emails. His voice mail has been filled with complaints that he is disenfranchising supporters of Mr. Trump. Mr. Ramadan, who was born in Lebanon to a Muslim family but does not practice Islam, has been accused of being a member of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State by supporters of Mr. Trump.
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I'm glad the world's greatest protectors of free speech and the Constitution against "political correctness" are on the case.

Mr. Ramadan, who works in the international franchising industry and travels regularly to the Middle East, moved to the United States when he was 19 to study at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He has been active in the Republican Party ever since, admiring its philosophy of limited government and the hopeful conservative message of former President Reagan.

Now in the crosshairs of Mr. Trump’s supporters, safety is a concern for Mr. Ramadan. He planned to speak to the the F.B.I. on Tuesday to discuss the threats he had received and was doing his best to ignore the hate mail after fruitless efforts at explaining himself.

“I was hoping they didn’t have the facts,” said Mr. Ramadan, who had nothing to do with the party affiliation pledge. “Then they went into the terrorist stuff and the Muslim stuff so there’s no reason to engage them.”
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so...somebody calls Donald Trump a moron, and they're a member of ISIS because they're from the same region. Then their actions are lumped in with a party affiliation action that has nothing to do with them, but that terrorist scum must be up to something. Therefore...death threats?

I usually end my threads with a question, so I guess I'll end it with this: can the current American political discourse sink any lower?

JayGoogle · Dec 30, 2015

Northside Storm said: ↑

can the current American political discourse sink any lower?
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Probably not.

What is funny to me is that it is the right that is always complaining about "PC" culture and the left's sensitivity to words but they are the exact same, just with different words.

fchowd0311 · Dec 30, 2015

Yup. I thought so. I could be a Marine vet, and an ex-muslim but as long as I'm brown and came from a Muslim family, the racist right wing base will always believe I'm some sort of terrorist.

fchowd0311 · Dec 30, 2015

JayGoogle said: ↑

Probably not.

What is funny to me is that it is the right that is always complaining about "PC" culture and the left's sensitivity to words but they are the exact same, just with different words.
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Actually, Right wingers are more sensitive special snow flakes with their Christian persecution complex. A White straight male liberal is not enough of a p***y to state the he is being persecuted.

Haymitch · Dec 30, 2015

Northside Storm said: ↑

I usually end my threads with a question, so I guess I'll end it with this: can the current American political discourse sink any lower?
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JayGoogle said: ↑

Probably not.
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Disagree

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. - H.L. Mencken
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Northside Storm · Dec 30, 2015

JayGoogle said: ↑

Probably not.

What is funny to me is that it is the right that is always complaining about "PC" culture and the left's sensitivity to words but they are the exact same, just with different words.
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what is funny to me is that people think yelling at one another for speech is the end of times, but very few people will comment about the death threats people routinely receive for having the "wrong" speech, as you can see in this example.

the latter is the definition of political censorship/correctness, whatever you want to call it.

RocketsLegend · Dec 30, 2015

fchowd0311 said: ↑

Yup. I thought so. I could be a Marine vet, and an ex-muslim but as long as I'm brown and came from a Muslim family, the racist right wing base will always believe I'm some sort of terrorist.
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That's funny, I actually been discriminated by left wingers.

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