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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event

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Senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event

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Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago
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A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County community took a turn when Republican Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at a Native American candidate.
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    Like a lot of Republicans, this guy needs therapy. And medication. And anger management training.

    And to be removed from a position of power.

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      Can we start at the bottom of your list and work our* way up?

      Edit: word

      • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
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        That is how the removal of head from ass works, start at the base and pull outwards.

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          I like the way you think

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      I vote for a good kick in the teeth with a pair of steel toed boots.

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    And best of all, it was because she answered the question of, "Did she think discrimination was an issue in the state? "

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      And the dude said it to a native American whose tribe has been in the region for millennia. He’s not even a native to the state.

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        Yes! The Cooper’s Ferry village site in Nez Pearce territory contains the oldest verified evidence of habitation in North America, with dates to 16.5k years ago. There is very likely earlier habitation sites, but they will be difficult to find, and many would have been on the coastline that is now miles out to sea due to sea level rise after the glacial melt.

        This buffoon couldn’t have chosen a worse group to tell to go back to where they came from… They’ve been there since the glaciers. What a dense, ignorant and racist waste of space… too bad the constituents think enough like him that they vote this hate into office.

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      That wasn’t even it. The question was if they thought discrimination existed. Which makes what he did all the more insane.

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    ICE should be 100% run by indigenous people.

    • enbee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      this makes so much sense. let’s start a petition.

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      Lots of “lawless immigrants and anchor babies” in power that should be deported to Venezuela where they belong. Starting with this guy.

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    Does discrimination exist in Idaho?

    White guy: No

    Native woman: Actually, yes.

    White guy: loud, angry discrimination

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    Checks yup republican.

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      I didn’t feel the need to check.

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    The senator is from Lake Forest, Illinois which somewhat ironically was an abolitionist town with several prominent members of the Underground Railroad living there. It has changed a lot since then and now is a wealthy conservative country club suburb of Chicago with barely 1% of its population being black.

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      Some abolitionists held their stance on slavery not so much because they believed everyone should be free but because they didn’t like minorities being present at all, slaves or not, and thought ending slavery would mean they’d get shipped back to Africa, despite many having no direct connection to Africa closer than they had a direct connection to Europe.

      Not all abolitionists thought this way, but it wasn’t always in opposition to racism. Hell, segregation lasted into the 1900s and there’s still a problem with police racism that isn’t being properly addressed to this day, despite the anti-slavery side winning over 150 years ago.

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        Shit take in the first half ngl

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          You mean my take that some abolitionists were motivated by hate or the take of the abolitionists that were motivated by hate?

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    Very ignorant of him.

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    Foreman has a history of angrily confronting people in public, and shouting profanities.

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      He already said Republican.

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    Sounds about right.

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    From the headline alone, I knew which party.

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