Quote:But the criticism leveled on Tuesday against Tapper by liberal activist and Women’s March co-founder Linda Sarsour has struck many as malicious, misguided and unjustified, though others defended her ferocity. More broadly, the spat has revived arguments on the political left about how much to emphasize identity politics and the kind of social-justice discourse that was central to the Black Lives Matter movement. While some believe that a measure of militant rhetoric is necessary, others worry that it will turn away centrists who are necessary to Democrats’ electoral chances in 2018 and beyond.
The origin of the Tapper-Sarsour brouhaha was a tweet from the Women’s March account celebrating the birthday of Assata Shakur, a black militant who killed a New Jersey state trooper in a 1973 shootout. She was eventually caught and imprisoned but escaped in 1984 to Cuba, where she still lives today. A return to the United States is unlikely, since she is on the FBI's “most wanted terrorists” list.
Quote:Tapper, though, was having none of it. On his show, The Lead, he frequently evinces visceral annoyance at shoddy thinking, hypocrisy and grandstanding. He is not a huge fan of blowhards, either. Victims of his criticism have included close Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, whose evisceration by Tapper went viral.
This time, it was Sarsour and her fellow liberals, whom he chided in a tweet:
Shakur is a cop-killer fugitive in Cuba. This, ugly sentiments from @lsarsour & @dykemarchchi ...Any progressives out there condemning this?
Sarsour chose to respond by branding Tapper a member of the alt-right, a loosely defined movement that includes nativists, nationalists, anti-Semites, Islamophobes and anti-establishment meme warriors. Under no definition of the term, however, would Tapper, who is Jewish and a long-standing member of the Beltway media-political nexus, belong in that category.
He answered, in turn, by pointing to Sarsour’s own history of inflammatory statements,
Quote:An especially withering and incisive assessment came from Emily Shire of The Daily Beast, who compared Sarsour to Trump in her baseless denunciation of unfavorable media coverage.
The concern Tapper raised — about progressives standing with violent radicals — speaks to a much larger problem regarding the intersectionalist approach to social justice movements. On the one hand the intersectional feminist movement has been making strange bedfellows; on the other, it has been increasingly hostile to those who question those additions.
When Sarsour was asked in an interview in The Nation about whether Zionist feminists were welcomed in the modern, intersectional feminist movement in March, she said they were not. “I would say that anyone who wants to call themselves an activist cannot be selective,” she replied.
That means no support of any kind for Israel. No criticism when the Women’s March formally champions a convicted murderer like Shakur.
Sarsour’s “attempt to slander” Tapper, as Shire calls it, is only her latest attempt to silence critics. This winter, she loudly denounced a Dartmouth student who confronted her at a talk there, wondering why a “young white man” was challenging her at “an event organized by an Asian American.” He’d wanted her to account for the infamous female genital mutilation tweet, which she dismissed as “stupid ****.”
Im telling you, its the worlds most epic troll...that is Ted Cruz in drag dropping idiotic progressive slogans and laughing his arse off about it behind the scenes.
(07-20-2017 06:28 PM)Kaplony Wrote: http://www.newsweek.com/cnn-tapper-sarso...ght-639242
[i]The concern Tapper raised — about progressives standing with violent radicals — speaks to a much larger problem regarding the intersectionalist approach to social justice movements. On the one hand the intersectional feminist movement has been making strange bedfellows; on the other, it has been increasingly hostile to those who question those additions.
(07-20-2017 06:28 PM)Kaplony Wrote: http://www.newsweek.com/cnn-tapper-sarso...ght-639242
[i]The concern Tapper raised — about progressives standing with violent radicals — speaks to a much larger problem regarding the intersectionalist approach to social justice movements. On the one hand the intersectional feminist movement has been making strange bedfellows; on the other, it has been increasingly hostile to those who question those additions.
Hey MPLS, look! There is that word I made up.....
These people have no place on the left. They should not be aCCEpted.
Im telling you, its the worlds most epic troll...that is Ted Cruz in drag dropping idiotic progressive slogans and laughing his arse off about it behind the scenes.
Great now I can't unsee that lol. I honestly wish this crazy lady would go be an ISIS bride so she wouldn't be allowed to speak anymore.
Im telling you, its the worlds most epic troll...that is Ted Cruz in drag dropping idiotic progressive slogans and laughing his arse off about it behind the scenes.
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Great now I can't unsee that lol. I honestly wish this crazy lady would go be an ISIS bride so she wouldn't be allowed to speak anymore.
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She may be an Islamist but she isn't a stupid Islamist. You think she really wants to be someones Sharia slave? Heck no, she just wants to push it in a country that doesn't allow Sharia law.
(07-21-2017 10:33 AM)olliebaba Wrote: Im telling you, its the worlds most epic troll...that is Ted Cruz in drag dropping idiotic progressive slogans and laughing his arse off about it behind the scenes.
Great now I can't unsee that lol. I honestly wish this crazy lady would go be an ISIS bride so she wouldn't be allowed to speak anymore.
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She may be an Islamist but she isn't a stupid Islamist. You think she really wants to be someones Sharia slave? Heck no, she just wants to push it in a country that doesn't allow Sharia law.
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Agree to disagree on that one lol. She knows that the US is protected from **** like that because of the first amendment's protection from religion so she can say really inflammatory stuff for attention without the consequences of it happening.
The smartest thing she ever did was aligning herself with that women's march. That's like if Hitler had a march for icecream and puppies people would go regardless of who organized it or what they personally stood for. I bet if you would have taken a poll at that march 99% of this women would have no idea who she is.
(07-20-2017 06:28 PM)Kaplony Wrote: http://www.newsweek.com/cnn-tapper-sarso...ght-639242
[i]The concern Tapper raised — about progressives standing with violent radicals — speaks to a much larger problem regarding the intersectionalist approach to social justice movements. On the one hand the intersectional feminist movement has been making strange bedfellows; on the other, it has been increasingly hostile to those who question those additions.
Hey MPLS, look! There is that word I made up.....
These people have no place on the left. They should not be aCCEpted.
(07-21-2017 11:05 AM)olliebaba Wrote: Godzilla, you're quoting something in your post that I didn't post. You need help?
Uhh what? Look at the 8th post... I didn't alter your post I just bolded a line of it.
Ah I see what happened. The Ted Cruz post got somehow credited to you idk why I think it's because you messed up the quote brackets and when I quoted you it threw you on the first one.
(This post was last modified: 07-21-2017 11:19 AM by Godzilla.)
(07-21-2017 11:05 AM)olliebaba Wrote: Godzilla, you're quoting something in your post that I didn't post. You need help?
Uhh what? Look at the 8th post... I didn't alter your post I just bolded a line of it.
Ah I see what happened. The Ted Cruz post got somehow credited to you idk why I think it's because you messed up the quote brackets and when I quoted you it threw you on the first one.
Oh my gosh, and you want to tell us how to run our country? J/K
I know you wouldn't be able to anyway as you're a Dimocrat.
(07-21-2017 11:05 AM)olliebaba Wrote: Godzilla, you're quoting something in your post that I didn't post. You need help?
Uhh what? Look at the 8th post... I didn't alter your post I just bolded a line of it.
Ah I see what happened. The Ted Cruz post got somehow credited to you idk why I think it's because you messed up the quote brackets and when I quoted you it threw you on the first one.
(07-21-2017 11:05 AM)olliebaba Wrote: Godzilla, you're quoting something in your post that I didn't post. You need help?
Uhh what? Look at the 8th post... I didn't alter your post I just bolded a line of it.
Ah I see what happened. The Ted Cruz post got somehow credited to you idk why I think it's because you messed up the quote brackets and when I quoted you it threw you on the first one.
Oh my gosh, and you want to tell us how to run our country? J/K
I know you wouldn't be able to anyway as you're a Dimocrat.
