The clearest takeaway from the conservative backlash to a deceptively edited Ilhan Omar interview with Al Jazeera is that those angered by it are not actually angry about bigotry, as they claim to be. zakcheneyrice writes
Ilhan Omar. Photo: Al Jazeera The clearest takeaway from the conservative backlash to a deceptively edited Ilhan Omar interview with Al Jazeera is that those angered by it are not actually angry about bigotry, as they claim to be. Responding in 2018 to Mehdi Hassan’s questions about Islamophobia — and its proponents’ view that “legitimate fear” of Islam’s relationship to terrorism is behind it — the then-Minnesota state representative turned the “logic” of racial profiling on its head.
But rather than examine this proposal’s merits or lack thereof, several high-profile conservatives have broadcast Omar’s interview as proof that she’s a bigot. Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday tweeted a clip that omitted the part where Omar qualifies her assertion with “[If] fear was the driving source of policies to keep America safe.
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