Michigan House speaker blasts lawmaker’s ‘blatantly racist’ social media post - BridgeDetroit
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House Speaker Joe Tate, D-Detroit, on Thursday said Republican lawmaker Josh Schriver “has deeply and personally offended the House of Representatives” for a post referencing a conspiracy theory.

DISCLAIMER: if you’re looking for the usual summary, just go directly here. I’ve got a spleen to vent.

Say what you will, but I just can’t let this piece of news go. I actually have two subjects I’d like to broach.

First, I gauge reader reaction by voting, both positive and negative, as I am of the school of thought that participation is a good thing, regardless of in which direction the voting may go. Don’t test my limits on this.

I post about a man who diverted a river, your reaction was (at last look) 29 upvotes. I post about a trans woman’s testicles left in her ex’s fridge, 34 ups and 2 downs plus 27 comments even. I post about Taylor Swift, oh well then, 77 ups, 14 downs and comments galore! “Every gun death is avoidable”? 106 up, 16 down and, boy, were you all vocal with your 52 comments!

I post about an elected Michigan State Representative espousing racist conspiracies only David Duke could love and imbeciles would believe and…11 upvotes. Crickets. Don’t believe me?

Far be it for me to tell you how you should feel or react to a situation. But, sincerely and with all due respect…how are you all not angered by this? I mean, y’all get riled by GNOME v KDE v some strange-ass TUI. Kirk v Picard v who-the-feez-ever? Outrage City. This? Crickets. Your silence on this matter concerns me.

The second subject I wanted to touch on is…tell me Michigan House Speaker Joe Tate doesn’t look like Clark Kent two seconds before he rips open his button-down shirt!

  • raoulraoulOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    @Infynis@midwest.social, thanks for your comment.

    It’s hard not to draw certain conclusions when a Taylor Swift post will elicit five times the reaction as this reprehensible action. I do understand your (Infynis) and the general public’s “desensitization” to the absurdity of American life of the 2000s; you can swallow only so much of the exponentially increasing madness.

    That said, there are some things that will always cross that line. This is one of them. The apathy demonstrated here in regard to KKK-member-in-training, Catholic-prep-school-educated, elected official Josh Scrivner leads me to believe you (in the general) are OK with him.

    Thanks for listening.