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Whatever Happened to ‘the Content of Your Character?’
On Facebook, I have seen the following celebratory post making the rounds:
WE ARE WITNESSING HISTORY
- First Somali-American elected to Congress.
- First openly gay man to win a gubernatorial
- First Muslim woman EVER elected to Congress.
- First Black women ever elected to Congress from Connecticut & Massachusetts
- Youngest woman EVER elected to Congress
What’s missing from that list? Any mention whatsoever of these candidates’ qualifications, beliefs, policy positions, experience, or really anything at all that speaks to competence.
Apparently none of that matters. The only things that matter are your race, gender, and sexual preference. Merely to exist as a member of one of these special groups is a matter of pride. To elect such a person to office, apparently, is a triumph, regardless of any other criterion.
Tell me again who the bigots are?
Published in General
From City Journal
The Curious Case of Ilhan Omer
Ilhan Omer
A posting on the SomaliSpot discussion board alleged that Omar had married the man touted as her husband in 2002 before marrying her brother for fraudulent purposes in 2009. The post, which seems to have been written by someone from Minneapolis’s Somali community, was quickly deleted. By the time it came to my attention, the post was only available via a Google cache (now also deleted). If the story is true, however, it suggests that Omar had engaged in some kind of dishonest activity in connection with her marriage to her brother (which by itself would be illegal).
Yup. History….
And this
Yeah. They are the one who are in control of most of the State of Minnesota!
I’ve noticed this appalling trend too.
Their elections give leftists who derive meaning from blathering about intersectionality the opportunity to do so, as well as bluster about leftist ascendancy, insofar as each of these electees is also a leftist.
Any leftist organs celebrating the blowout election of Marsha Blackburn? First female elected to the Senate from Tennessee?
……………….
Guess not.
If they’re going to play that game, they should at least add the first Korean-American woman to be elected to congress – Young Kim. But, I suppose she doesn’t count since she has an R after her name.
These days, identity is character.
You must be new here, welcome!
Hah! Let’s run down that list:
First Somali-American Muslim woman — married her brother to commit immigration fraud.
First openly gay man — let me tell you, we didn’t know Polis is gay until election day! For being “open” about it, he was pretty hush, hush. Probably thinking he could swing a few fence-sitters as long as the homophobes didn’t know about it. Also, Polis has a police record for roughing up a woman who was his employee. He changed his name that year to protect his political future (from Jared Polis Shutz to Jared Shutz Polis). Lovely human being.
First black women from CT and MA? I don’t know much about these women, other than I seem to recall one of them openly declaring herself a socialist.
Youngest woman — Google Eyes Cortez? She is God’s gift to the Republican party. Even CNN (Jake Tapper) is embarrassed for her. In the Thesaurus under synonyms for “foolish” you’ll find:
and a picture of Google Eyes Cortez.
They are being perfectly consistent. Having the right character + the right identity = progressive. You notice all those being praised are progressives. Any Republican/conservative firsts solely based on identity are studiously ignored. That’s because identity without the right character doesn’t count. It’s why Democrats voting year after year against Republicans who are black, Asian, gay, hispanic etc is okay, and not bigoted.
Scott Johnson at Powerline Blog has covered this extensively, and has been for over a year. So has David Steinberg at PJ Media. They provide strong evidence that she did marry her brother, and she is very corrupt. The worse part is, that many in the media know this, but they don’t mention it, because of her gender and religion.
Start here and follow the links;
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/david-steinberg-welcome-to-my-world.php.
It will raise your eyebrows.
Looks like a list of cultural appropriators.
So true. I had a friend that posted on Facebook how proud he was that they had elected a gay, native american, women to office. My response was, “I am more interested in her shoe size than any of those characteristics.”
Surely Google-eyes Cortez is not the first idiot, or woman idiot ever elected…
I’ve been noticing in recent years that to keep this identity category thing going, the people who do this have to keep narrowing their categories. First Muslim. First Muslim woman. First Muslim Somali-American woman. Etc.
Since every new category creates a new division between people, it creates a new point of conflict. The primary effect of the identity-based categorization is to create more conflict between people.
Honesty, character, facts, education, experience stopped mattering a while back, especially for Democrats. All that matters now is ethnic heritage, gender, sexual orientation, outrage and money you can raise.
Good point. I noticed they left out whether she’s Sunni or Shia.
To answer your headline question:
That’s so last century.
That was like fifty years ago, before most of the identity proponents were born, so it must not have any relevance, since only things that happen during their own lifetimes matter.
As someone who cares more about music than ethnicity, where are these headlines?
“History Made! 3rd District Elects First Mezzo-Soprano!“
“Your New Congress: Most Basoonists Ever!“
“ Governor-Elect Trombonist Shatters Brass Ceiling!“
A few elections ago, must have been 2008, a co-worker (late 20’s young lady who is otherwise very smart) was gushing to me about how wonderful it was that we could very well have the first Woman President. My reply was that I’ve never voted for estrogen OR testosterone. My votes have always, always gone to the Candidate who I expected to do the least damage to my Liberty over the term of office.
She had no comeback but was obviously not pleased nor impressed by what I had to say on the matter.
The very concept of Race has been from the start a device to divide and thus control people. Those we think beneath us are much easier to dismiss as deserving of our concern. So, whether the divide is based on skin shade (we’re all ;different shades of the same color) hair color, straight vs. curly, height, nose configuration, eye shape or some other normal aspect of human differentiation, always remember what the object of the exercise is. There is strong reason we are becoming more divided even as prejudice and exclusion have reached extreme lows of acceptance.
I wonder about the political calculation here. Sure, it’d be harder to find out about his police record, but going forward with a name like Schutz Polis, I would think law enforcement groups would come out extra-hard against him.
All of that matters still, but you’re still a Democrat….and it absolves the white people in the party because “look at the diverse class picture, we did it the right way, through our own tolerance!”
This.
That’s a really good point. It’s one of the many ways the progressives keep moving the goal posts. Their actual meaningful goals were achieved decades ago, but they keep inventing new goals, and that’s one of the ways they do it.
It kind of reminds me of the silly commentary you sometimes hear from sports statisticians who are trying to mine the data for predictions. “Well, they’re 4-0 in away games played on Thursdays with odd-numbered dates when the wind is out of the south-southwest, so the odds are in their favor today…” When you start slicing the statistics that much, you’re talking nonsense.
Took me a sec, but LOL.
Isn’t it going to piss off the Democrats when the first Female President is a Republican!
#Haley2024!
Intersectionality!
Actually I was thinking of Haley2020!