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Which in turn tells me that you and W82 think "Make America Great Again" was/is indeed originally racist .......

I don't know Fox - Using old math, or new math?

A red hat with the words "Make America Great Again" is symbolic of all things evil or on the wrong side of American history........Really guys........ And the Confederate Army is comparable to the Taliban....... And an elderly Jewish guy being bullied because he had that hat on his head brings all this back to the forefront.....

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In the meantime (in the spirit of tolerant vs intolerant) - the mean old Jewish Nazi racist who wore a MAGA hat doesn't think Ms. Mankey should have lost her job....... https://padailypost.com/2019/04/07/maga-critic-faces-attacks-but-the-hat-wearer-doesnt-think-she-should-have-been-fired/ MAGA critic faces attacks but the hat-wearer doesn’t think she should have been fired April 7, 2019 12:13 pm BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto man who a woman berated at Starbucks over his Make America Great Again cap said yesterday (April 5) that he doesn’t think she should have lost her job — or suffered death threats and other online attacks — over the assault. “I don’t believe in death threats or anything like that… I’m against, generally, intimidation and threats,” Victor, 74, told the Post. “I don’t think anybody should lose their job over something like that. You’ve got to make a living.” The firing and threats weren’t the only life-changing consequences this week for Rebecca Parker Mankey, who also quit the Bayshore Progressive Democrats, a club where she served as co-chair. Mankey hasn’t returned the Post’s requests for comment. It all started when Mankey, 46, of Palo Alto, posted on Facebook that she had yelled at Victor about hating “brown people” when she walked in to the California Starbucks on Monday (April 1) and noticed his hat. Victor is an observant Jew and wears his MAGA cap over a yarmulke. “He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again. If you see him in this hat, please confront him,” Mankey wrote on Facebook. “He wouldn’t call the police, so I called him a wimp. He got his stuff together to leave. I followed him to the register while he complained about me.” Mankey also wrote that she wanted to find out Victor’s name, his wife’s name, where he lives and where his kids go to school, seeming to imply an intent to “dox” or publish his contact information with malicious intent. On Tuesday (April 2) morning, Trump supporters on Twitter shared the post widely, spurring hundreds of vitriolic online attacks against Mankey and a flood of angry calls to Gryphon Stringed Instruments, where she worked as an accountant and office manager. Mankey was fired from Gryphon Strings on Tuesday (April 2) and on Wednesday (April 3) quit the Bayshore Progressive Democrats. “Bayshore Progressive Democrats seeks a world that works for everyone, where all humans have a chance to realize their full potential and to live lives of dignity,” the progressive group posted on Facebook early Thursday morning. “Harassment and abuse are inconsistent with these values, and we reject the use of such tactics in civil society.” The group had previously denounced the attacks on Mankey, stating on Tuesday night that she and her family had been doxxed, and received several death threats and other threats of injury and harm. “Parker felt strongly that she wanted to use her privilege as a white woman to stand up for those who are living in fear because of the hateful atmosphere fostered by Trump,” the group wrote. “Unfortunately the manner in which she chose to stand up against a slogan that stands for racism led to an even stronger hateful response that has endangered her and her family.” Online attacks Trump supporters on Twitter have called Mankey a “walking shred of human debris,” a “fascist tyrant” and a “toilet brush,” among other attacks. But Victor said that while he doesn’t agree with attacking or threatening people online, he sees many online attacks — even if they mention violence — as excessive rhetoric akin to dialog in a “cowboy movie” that doesn’t pose a real threat. “I don’t think, in Palo Alto specifically, Rebecca has much to worry about. We’re not in rural, rural Alabama or something,” Victor said. Both Mankey and Palo Alto Human Relations Commissioner Steven Lee, who was also harassed online after posting a statement about the incident at Starbucks, have deactivated their social media accounts. Lee declined to comment on the record about the online harassment. Reporter receives threat And this reporter received a threatening Facebook message yesterday from an Ohio man who seemed to have confused the name on the story’s byline with Mankey. “Hello Allison. I saw you were in the news for attacking an elderly man at Starbucks,” read the message from John Mcnamara. “Just wanted to let you know that you are the true Nazi and a worthless human being.” Mcnamara went on to say that he had “banned” this reporter — seemingly by mistake in an attempt to ban Mankey — from the Starbucks that he runs in Dayton, Ohio. “I would like you to know that your pic is up and you are banned for life from my businesses,” Mcnamara wrote. “I know you may never visit Dayton but it’s a small step my Hispanic wife and I can take to stand up to bullies like you.” Mcnamara said that he and his wife bought MAGA hats yesterday (April 5) to support free speech. Then, in an apparent nod to Mankey’s attempt to find identifying information about Victor, Mcnamara gave his home address in Uniontown, Ohio, outside of Akron. “My kids are out of school so you don’t need to know where they go,” Mcnamara wrote. “But you are more than welcome to send (Black Lives Matter), (Council on American-Islamic Relations), socialist Democrats or any other racist group you want after me for owning it.” Mcnamara then warned that Ohio residents “enjoy” their Second Amendment rights and that he has pistols, AR-15s, shotguns and an MP5 submachine gun at home, “all legal.” Victor, meanwhile, said he hadn’t received any serious threats. When he went back to Starbucks on Thursday — without his MAGA hat — a woman approached him and introduced herself as a progressive, but told him that she agreed with his “side of the story.” The closest thing to a threat came when a man named Alex told KCBS off-screen that after hearing the story, he went to Starbucks on Thursday hoping to confront Victor about his hat. “Stay out of my town, you MAGA hat-wearing people,” Alex told KCBS in a story aired yesterday. “The basis of what he’s doing is so incredibly hateful and evil that it needs to be called out.” Other than that, Victor said it’s been “all quiet on the Palo Alto front.” Mayor’s reaction Mayor Eric Filseth yesterday condemned Mankey’s confrontation with Victor, but said it “remains to be seen” whether the City Council will make a statement about the issue on Monday. “The intolerant behavior exhibited is not consistent with our values here in Palo Alto,” Filseth told the Post. “The City Council is going to review it and decide what course of action makes sense.” It appears to SF (IMHO) the term "Make America Great Again" has become the new slogan of "Free Speech" instead of "A slogan that stands for Racism"......

IDK.......I guess I have based my understanding of sex on the actual evidence at birth.......internal or external plumbing and all that......

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273361/mayor-buttigieg-runs-president-while-his-city-daniel-greenfield?fbclid=IwAR1-_i2HOqlIf1dByKfNh6wtakYzFUaQAE4bf_a-Q8x5UgP1KUtXE-mxDtk On March 31, a South Bend grandma brought her grandson to the hospital. The 11-month-old baby boy had been shot. His grandmother’s car had also taken fire. It was another early morning in South Bend. Around the same time, Mayor Buttigieg, was toting up the $7 million in donations from his charm offensive as his bid for the 2020 Democrat nomination got underway. The national media never bothered reporting the shooting of an 11-month-old boy in the city he was supposed to be running, but instead confined its coverage of South Bend matters to a publicity stunt wedding officiated by Buttigieg. The horrifying shooting of an 11-month-old boy on the millennial mayor’s watch was not an unusual incident. In the last few days, even as the media was gushing over Buttigieg’s presidential ambitions, two Indiana University South Bend players were injured in a shooting on Notre Dame Avenue, a blind date ended in a shooting, and yet another shooting added to the bloody toll in the real South Bend. Those are quite a few shootings for a city of barely 100,000 people. But South Bend is a violent place. While Chicago is notorious for its murder rate, in 2015, Buttigieg’s South Bend actually topped Chicago’s 16.4 homicides per 100,000 people with a homicide rate of 16.79 per 100,000 people. Those numbers put Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s city on the list of the top 30 murder capitals in the country for the year. In January, three shootings in one week killed two teens and left a woman paralyzed from the waist down. In one summer week, the casualties included a 12 and a 13-year-old. Last year, a man shot 6 people when he opened fire on 50 partygoers in a house and was sentenced to 100 years in jail. By 2017, shootings had risen 20% on Mayor Buttigieg’s watch. Rapes increased 27% and aggravated assaults rose from 183 in 2013, the year before Buttigieg took office, to a stunning 563 assaults. It’s hard to know which are flying faster, bullets in South Bend or dollars into Buttigieg’s campaign. Some of these stories, particularly the recent shootings of two baseball players which shocked Indiana University, should have been covered by the national media, which instead chose to broadcast Buttigieg’s publicity stunt of officiating at a pregnant woman’s wedding in a hospital. Had the media stuck around, it could have reported on the trail of shooting victims making their way into the hospital. But reporting on an 11-month-old being shot in their hot new candidate’s city wouldn’t be as much fun. The media’s bias has never been subtle, but its disinterest in a presidential candidate’s track record has never been this blatant. Mayor Buttigieg’s candidacy is being covered as if he weren’t the mayor of an actual city with actual problems. Instead his prospects have been covered purely in terms of his identity, a gay millennial, his past career before taking office, and his current witticisms and applause lines. At no point in time does the media stop to tell the viewers and readers it is regaling with stories of Mayor Buttigieg’s charm that he runs the most dangerous city in Indiana, recently rated as one of the “worst cities to live”, where nearly half the residents live at the poverty level, and even the water is bad. These are significant data points in the track record of a politician aspiring to run the entire country. The media keeps asking Mayor Buttigieg which of its wishlist of radical socialist policies he’s willing to sign on to, the Green New Deal, eliminating private health insurance, and freeing more convicts, rather than asking him which policies he used to try and solve problems in South Bend. And how they worked. Mayor Pete Buttigieg has tried to pass off South Bend’s crime problem as a national issue. But South Bend’s violent crime rates, double the Indiana and American average, run counter to national trends. Buttigieg responded by doubling down on Group Violence Intervention, a trendy community outreach strategy to gang members, which despite being widely touted by the media, doesn’t work. Gimmicks, ranging from AI to wonkery, were rolled out and the shootings, the rapes and assaults have continued. Mayor Buttigieg excels at buzzwords and gimmicks. He’s just terrible at actually running a city. That’s why property crime in South Bend is rising. It’s why the city is overrun with gangs. It’s why South Bend is poor, blighted and miserable. Violence is just one of the many symptoms of Buttigieg’s failures. South Bend’s top employers are the local schools and hospitals, and the local government. And a local casino. Unemployment and taxes are higher than average. Meanwhile the average income is below $20,000. The poverty rate is 25%. African-American poverty rates are double. Hispanic poverty rates are 10% higher than the national average. And even Asian-Americans are poorer than usual in South Bend. Buttigieg’s failed city is a tragic counterpart to Lake Wobegon where everything is below average. The media has ignored the reality in South Bend while touting Buttigieg as a rival for the hearts of Rust Belt voters. But Buttigieg hasn’t won by winning over traditional Rust Belt voters. South Bend’s white population has dropped steadily on his watch and the city is on track for majority minority status. The remaining white population is skewed toward a white lefty elite coming for its educational institutions. South Bend isn’t a typical Rust Belt city. It’s a typical blue city, divided sharply between poor minorities and a leftist elite without any of the culture or tech industries that keep New York or Los Angeles going. Its traditional population has been leaving steadily and that departure only accelerated during Buttigieg’s disastrous time in office. Much has been made of Buttigieg winning reelection by 80%. This isn’t a testament to his unique charisma. Democrats have had a lock on the mayorality in South Bend for two generations. The media cheers that Buttigieg won 80% of the vote. It neglects to mention that it was 8,515 votes. That’s about the 8,369 votes that came in during the primaries. Buttigieg raised $337,161 dollars while his Republican opponent, Kelly Jones, had raised $584 dollars. The millennial wunderkind needed $40 bucks a vote while his unknown Republican opponent managed at around a quarter a vote. Like South Bend’s poverty and crime statistics, these are figures that the media doesn’t report because it would reveal that their shiny new candidate is a hollow façade with nothing inside except spin. Mayor Buttigieg isn’t winning 80% because he’s universally beloved. That percentage isn’t a testament to his popularity, but to a political system in which hardly anybody except a few lefties bothers to vote. The truth about “Mayor Pete” is that he’s the son of a Marxist prof working in Notre Dame who used the death throes of a dying city to polish his brand and then jump into the 2020 race over dead bodies. South Bend is a human tragedy. And while Buttigieg isn’t solely responsible for his woes, he has exploited it, instead of trying to fix it, using buzzwords and gimmicks to build a national brand. That’s something he has in common with fellow failed hipster mayor and 2020 candidate, Cory Booker. But Senator Booker was at least clever enough to put a little distance between his tenure in Newark and his 2020 bid. Mayor Buttigieg is betting that the national media won’t bother looking at South Bend. So far he’s been proven right. The media keeps touting Buttigieg’s Ivy League credentials, his identity as a gay politician, and his charm. When it mentions South Bend, it’s only to claim that he “turned it around” and that he won his last election by 80%. South Bend hasn’t been turned around. Downtown has gotten a hipster revamp, while the rest of South Bend chokes on crime, violence and misery. But Buttigieg knows that the national media will never bother doing more than reporting on new bike paths and an organic grocery. The 11-month-old boy who came into the hospital with a wound in his shoulder won’t catch their eye. But as Mayor Buttigieg keeps raising money hand over fist, South Bend continues to bleed and die. And Buttigieg is hoping that he can sneak into the White House before the blood gets on his hands. Those of us near to South Bend already know this. South Bend has (even before Mayor Pete) been crime-ridden. He just didn't do much to fix that, except for Round-abouts and Smart Streets......and Lime Bikes.....Trendy........

We must forget our history.......

Evidence shows the right wing normally isn't offended with the other side's right to free speech..... Thanks for making the point..... Big difference between an anonymous downvote and calling someone (an elderly Jewish guy) out in public at a restaurant.

So the red hat triggered this gal to approach an old Jewish guy who is sitting there, enjoying his coffee, not bothering anybody, and (stereo-typically) begin hurling profanities and names at him. This action, then resulted in her being so proud of her actions that she felt she would share her experience with her ilk on social media. Which then resulted in her losing her job. All because the elderly Jewish guy who she accused of being a Nazi was wearing a red hat that wished good fortune on the United States.......who actually felt bad that she lost her job...... Again, where is the tolerance? The "melting pot" mentality that the left puts out as it's mantra?

FTA: The victim tried to grab the hat, a symbol of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and the other man whipped out a sword and slashed him, Rueca said. Police originally reported that the victim was wearing the hat, but changed their statement late Saturday. Crickets? When was this link/story ever brought up on this forum? Another example of TDS since the victim (who was technically the 2nd victim) assaulted the individual wearing the hat after a "verbal dispute". And the main identifying piece of evidence was the red hat.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-woman-fired-after-targeting-man-wearing-maga-hat-starbucks-n990861 California woman fired after targeting man wearing MAGA hat in Starbucks "If you see him in this hat please confront him. You do not want to be the person who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism," the woman posted on Facebook. A man identified as Victor by NBC New York said a woman confronted him about his “MAGA” hat at a Starbucks in Palo Alto, California.NBC Bay Area April 4, 2019, 11:30 AM EDT By Elisha Fieldstadt A California woman who confronted a man wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat in a Starbucks and then threatened him on Facebook has lost her job. "Anybody in Palo Alto know this freak? He was sitting in Starbucks. I think he lives in Palo Alto. He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again," a woman who has been identified as Rebecca Mankey posted to Facebook Monday with pictures of the man. "If you see him in this hat please confront him. You do not want to be the person who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism," the post continued. She then commented on the post that she was going to stand outside of the man's job and "make him feel as unsafe as he made every brown person he met today." The man, who identified himself to NBC Bay Area as Victor, remembers Mankey coming up to him and asking if he was wearing the MAGA hat, which is worn by some supporters of President Donald Trump. "This woman comes over, and she says 'Is that a Trump hat?' I said, 'I think it is, yes,'" Victor recalled. He said Mankey then turned to the rest of the Starbucks customers and said, "Hey, everybody. Come over here. Let’s get this guy! He’s a hater! I’m calling him out! He hates brown people. He’s a Nazi." A statement from Gryphon Strings, the music store where Mankey worked, said the owners "do not condone harassment or hate speech of any kind." A later statement said she had been fired. "Music has historically been something that has brought people of diverse socio-political backgrounds together," the statement said. "We would like to make it clear that the opinions expressed and actions taken by the employee are not indicative of how we conduct ourselves at the shop." Richard Johnston, one of the owners of Gryphon told NBC Bay Area that Mankey had worked at the store as a store manager and accountant for four years, and he wouldn't have expected her to act the way she did. "I think surprised is an understatement," Johnston said. "I think dumbfounded and confused is probably more accurate. Expressing what you believe is not the problem. It’s attacking people for what they believe is the problem." The Facebook Mankey posted on Monday, under the name Parker Mankey, has since been deactivated. Victor, meanwhile, said he felt bad Mankey had lost her job. FYI - This man is actually Jewish........I hope she learned a lesson, although (IMHO) I don't think she did...... I'm always surprised to see the "most tolerant" among us as the ones being the "most intolerant" among us........

https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Charge-to-be-dropped-against-man-in-WVa-abduction-case-508116391.html?fbclid=IwAR1X5FcrnrmK5PdqtmCozw1MXKab_LxKdvh2lzWyEU9prBIhyVKQ_-K4rqY BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) — A sensational case of an attempted child kidnapping in a West Virginia shopping mall may have been nothing more than a man being friendly to a little girl. Barboursville police initially said a woman pulled a gun on the man, forcing him to release her 5-year-old daughter. Mohamed Fathy Hussein Zayan was arrested near the Huntington Mall's food court on an attempted abduction charge Monday. Zayan, 54, an engineer from Alexandria, Egypt, who is in the area for work, was released from jail Tuesday night on a reduced bond. News outlets report he cried as he greeted family members. Police Sgt. Anthony Jividen said a prosecutor will have to decide whether to charge the woman instead. The woman at first told police Zayan grabbed the girl by the hair and tried to pull her away from inside a clothing store. Jividen said while no witnesses could be found, mall surveillance video showed inconsistencies in the woman's original statement. Jividen said the woman later told investigators she may have overreacted and misinterpreted the man's intentions. Zayan doesn't speak English and police say he may have simply been patting the girl on the head. Jividen said the prosecutor also would have to determine whether Zayan would face a potential battery charge because of "the uninvited touching of a child. Even though there was an overreaction by the mother, it was not completely baseless." A telephone message left with the Cabell County prosecutor wasn't immediately returned Wednesday. Over-reaction? Or justified? I can see both arguments as legitimate here..... 1) Lighten up lady.... 2) Never touch a stranger's kid...

"They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected," You really want to defend that statement?