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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 90 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Good to know our government can still get shit done when it's something fucking stupid.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Not just stupid, absolutely depraved!

[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Yes. It's the facts that are misleading, not us. The ole "you can't handle the truth."

[–] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I almost typed "I don't know why we invest in ignorance," but I do. Goddamn dude