Rep. Rob Bishop holds a town hall meeting in Morgan, Utah, in 2018. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 15 at 5:46 AM Opponents of the Green New Deal have fired off a slew of increasingly hyperbolic attacks in recent months, from falsely claiming that it would outlaw hamburgers and ban air travel to contending that it would turn the United States into a socialist nation.
After the news conference was over, Axios reporter Amy Harder pointed out that the term “genocide” refers to the deliberate mass murder of a particular national or ethnic group and asked Bishop how the Green New Deal fits that definition.“And you think the Green New Deal is going to kill you?” Harder asked.
Bishop’s overheated rhetoric was immediately condemned by critics on the left, who accused him of trivializing white settlers’ mass slaughter of Native Americans and other real genocides that have taken place throughout history. A spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez told the Hill that the remarks were “misleading and offensive,” while the Utah Democratic Party denounced his claims as"not only baseless but also incredibly insensitive.
Later on Thursday, Bishop said in a statement to the Salt Lake Tribune that he had been joking, but that he fully believed that the plan would be catastrophic. “My comments were obviously not meant literally, and should not detract from the fact that the so-called Green New Deal is born of attitudes that show no respect for the lives and livelihoods of the American people,” he said.
All of us are “ethnics.” There are hundreds and hundreds of ethnic groups. That he is an ethnic minority, then that would be utterly wrong.
Whoops, that was telling.
Feh. His kind already get affirmative action. It’s called the Electoral College. It’s racist, and it has contributed to the death of American Democracy.
Ethnic doesn’t mean minority tho
I love when folks like Bishop assume everyone outside of his region is completely ignorant of what's happening in the rest of the country, but HE knows! Dude, I was one of your constituents... I grew up in Utah, and now live in NYC. I know and still support the Green New Deal.
When you make “overstatements” like this, ignorantly, RepRobBishop , it’s time to think twice before speaking again. 🤔 Hopefully this is indeed your last term for UT01; they deserve a common sense unbigoted 21st century mind. SenMikeLee MittRomney sltrib VoteBlue2020
Somebody get PopPop back to the home.
Please allow me to help demystify the situation. By 'ethnic,' he meant 'utter crackpot who fears change'
is he the hamburger guy
Well ethnic includes all groups?
He's an idiot, ethnic or otherwise.
Clearly a member of the Ignoranto-American minority.
Not necessarily early-onset Alzheimer's.
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