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Idaho state senator tells Native American candidate to “go back where you came from”
(www.motherjones.com)
How does someone like this become senator?
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
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People in power usually aren't smart. They just have money from their parents or grandparents. This isn't a meritocracy. Idiots rule the world
and there's only one way to get rid of them
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Protest votes.
lol
Furthermore: lmao
Life imitates art, I'm sure I've seen this in a comedy movie at some point. I just never thought anyone would be dumb enough to say it in real life.
"Alright..." looks around at the country his people lived in for longer than white dudes lived in it "....Done, now what?"
Totally on brand. It will be funny one day for a Native American to say this to one of these racists.
This stupid fuck of a senator needs to go back to where he came from (sorry Illinois, you can’t just dump your garbage in other states like that)
Even better: she's from the Nez Perce tribe, who do still live in the general area they originally came from. Which isn't always a given for very violent and racist reasons.
So he doesn't come from there, his ancestors definitely didn't come from there, and hers very much did.
“Idaho senator born in another state tells Native American congressional candidate from a tribe native to the state to “go back where you came from.”
It would have been a much wordier headline but relays a lot more pertinent information.
Their ideology is a cancer
An ideology of "I won't listen to you because I'm motivated to oppress everyone else for my own gain," is, most definitely, going to make the world worse. And this will be entirely on purpose, and no one will apologise.
i agree with you; however thinking of your adversaries as simplistic evil masks any intelligence there might be in their actions. i think it's better to believe that they think they're doing the right things; simply misinformed by either the people who are supposed to educate them or through willful ignorance. that way, you can better understand their human driven actions and why they took the action they made.
that way, you can better understand their human driven actions
It's easy to understand hurting others for profit. It's not even slightly interesting, and the world would be better without it.
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Idaho State Sen. Dan Foreman, a conservative Republican
Said this to
Trish Carter-Goodheart, a Democrat running for a House seat
Always use names. The veil of "a politician said" or "big company does" is too blinding. Name and shame.
The irony has been palpable for over a century. Bizarre that we still accept it as a society
That's not the irony.
The irony is people flying the flag of violent traitors who fought a bloody war against this country while screaming that anybody who doesn't like it here should get out.
We desperately needed to let them leave back then, the country would be so much better.
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The person he said that to missed a great opportunity to say, "sure. Give me your house keys."
Surelly the right answer would've been "Go back to Europe".
(Mind you, as an European, please don't).
Carpetbagging Idaho state senator....
Then it makes sense. Unless we're talking about white guy going to Europe somewhere and the indigene going 'back' to eastern Russia.
Them: Done. Your turn.
Not wishing to make an unwarranted assumption, I looked up Sen. Foreman's political party. And yes, of course, he's GOP.
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