Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Black people to be "proud" of statues of their treasonous enslavers

It doesn’t feel like she’s addressing black people, it feels like Mrs. Greene’s talking to another demographic group. Some people need a daily dose of “authority speaking what they themselves think but cannot express themselves”.

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She believes she only represents her voters, so that tracks. I doubt anyone up there who is not white and deeply conservative voted for her. She speaks to and for her constituents only. She’s doing that district a real disservice by playing racial politics and ignoring the very real issues the community there faces. Since I got family there, it really enrages me.

Though I did hear that one person who lives in her district managed to get an apology from her because people came around and put an MTG sign on their property without permission (this person, though typically a Republican, did not vote for Greene).

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Besides acting like a kind of cheerleader, what did She does for the good people of Her district? It seems that this type of politician is very common around the world. Mr. Bolsonaro is a good example, he was a federal deputy for 28 years and had only two bills approved. One of them co-authored with a left-wing deputy, a project that regulated a magic drug against cancer.

ETA links that could provide context

https://www.science.org/content/article/brazil-president-signs-law-legalizing-renegade-cancer-pill

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Generally speaking, monuments are for people to be revered. We shouldn’t be revering traitors who literally fought for slavery.

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It’s not that hard! But of course, she’s just showing us what she really believes - that slavery was good, and that white supremacy is the “natural” order. She’s a racist, so of course she revers racists…

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Acknowledge, yes. Glorify, no.

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We shouldn’t be revering traitors.

We shouldn’t be revering people who fought for slavery.

Revering all the people at the intersection of that Venn Diagram is insanity.

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and yet, lots of people seem to revere the enslavers…

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MTG and her ilk are trying to thread the needle in the worst possible way: glorify the Confederates but not acknowledge anything they actually did…

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Waddya mean? Why, they were really nice to help those primitive people raise themselves up a bit!

/s, tho I’ve heard people basically say that :confounded:

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Charitably providing some adversity for them to overcome!

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Don’t slouch! Shoulders back! Chin up! There, now you sit corrected. :+1:

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Perhaps MTG will build a statue of Aunt Jemima.

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:: back makes a series of ungodly cracking noises :: AH, MUCH better!

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Majorie Taylor Greene is a sociopath and/or Narcissist. She is unbelievably callous, lacking in any sensitivity towards people of Color. She is a disgrace to the Republican Party that already has a record of zero credibility in being able to offer any vision for our Nation’s future. Greene is a blatant, vulgar racist clown, who creates the same sort of continuous chaos that former disgraced POTUS Donald Trump spewed and accomplished nothing from 2017-2021. It is time that the Democratic Party censure Greene, and House Minority Leader demonstrate some intestinal fortitude (which is probably impossible) in shutting Rep. Greene down. The American People need open-minded and competence in leadership; Racist clowns like Greene, Boebert, ad nauseam, are a miserable embarrassment to this Nation. This is one reason why the USA faces skepticism and disbelief about our reliability from our Allies, and it only benefits our enemies by fomenting political discord within the United States. Enough of this nonsense. We must move on to remove Greene and other disrupters from ever serving again in a public servant position.

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Yes

You got it.

And you lost me. See: Trump, DeSantis, Abbot, Santos, Boebert…, She is unequivocally the Republican Party.

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True. The whole party is rotten.

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I completely concur with you. However, MTG epitomizes the worst of the worst of what the GOP has come to represent.

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