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"US congresswoman Ilhan Omar has warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal
attacks and dehumanising rhetoric are fuelling a climate of political violence
that could have dangerous consequences.
Speaking days after the president called for her to be thrown out of the
country, Omar said Trump’s incendiary language reaches “the worst humans
possible” and encourages them to act.
“We’ve had people incarcerated for threatening to kill me,” she told the
Guardian in an interview at her Washington office. “We have people that are
being prosecuted right now for threatening to kill me and so it is something
that does stay in the back of our minds. But I also worry about those people
finding someone who looks like me in Minneapolis or across the country and
thinking it is me and harming them.”
Trump made the remarks at a rally-style event last week in Pennsylvania, where
supporters chanted “Send her back!” after the president pushed a baseless
conspiracy theory that Somali-born Omar married her own brother to become a US
citizen. The Democrat, who arrived in the US as a refugee aged 12 and became a
citizen at 17, described Trump’s fixation as “vile” and an “unhealthy and
creepy obsession”.
The Minnesota congresswoman said the attacks followed a familiar pattern. “When
things aren’t going well for him … cue the bigotry,” she said, accusing Trump
of deflecting from his failure to address cost-of-living pressures. “It’s the
same playbook and he just goes back to it; he doesn’t know anything else.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
