Why did 23 Republicans vote against condemning hatred and bigotry?
By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 8 at 6:42 AM After a week of brutal infighting over how to best respond to allegations of anti-Semitism, Democrats on Thursday presented a compromise that seemed unlikely to offend anyone: a resolution condemning bigotry and “hateful expressions of intolerance.
[House overwhelmingly passes broad measure condemning hate in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s alleged anti-Semitic comments] Rep Pete King said one of the reasons he voted against the resolution is bc it didn’t mention police being targeted, only mentioned police targeting others.— Daniel Newhauser March 7, 2019 For others, the problem was that the resolution didn’t single out Omar for censure. Calling the vote a “sham,” Rep.
— Paul Gosar March 7, 2019 Several Republicans complained that the resolution had been “watered down” when it was revised to condemn discrimination against various racial and religious minorities, instead of just anti-Semitism. One such critic was Rep. Louie Gohmert , who said in a statement that all the edits to the resolution had made it “so generic that it lost its meaning or significance.”
“Now that the resolution protects just about every group on the planet, can we add ‘babies on the day of their birth’ as a protected class?” tweeted Rep. Thomas Massie , referencing a discredited right-wing talking point that has been used to criticize New York’s law allowing abortions after 24 weeks if the fetus is not viable or the mother’s health is in jeopardy.
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