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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP congressman says Black Lives Matter movement is 'at war' with Western culture
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"The Democrat 'Black Lives Matter' Party, along with armies of rioters, are at war with our country, our beliefs and western culture," Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) wrote in a Facebook post. "Their radical movement is orchestrated and growing. We must never let them take power. We must stand up and defend our county, our nation's identity, our Judeo-Christian values and our American way of life."
Hagedorn was upset about a tweet by activist Shaun King who has not actually been a Democrat since 2016 suggesting that statues depicting Jesus as a white European are "a form of white supremacy" and should come down.
The first-term lawmaker's framing of the entire Black Lives Matter movement and Democratic Party as a threat to "western culture" is a dog whistle term for white nationalists. The term is frequently used by racist hate groups as a stand-in for "white."
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Hagedorn once even urged that Ronald Reagan's face be added to Mount Rushmore, writing that "room exists if we flatten Lincoln's image."
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Skittles
(153,226 posts)fuckers
Moostache
(9,897 posts)Get fucking bent pal...progress is happening with or WITHOUT your contributions you regressive, stunted, racist pile of shit.
Dog whistles and racist wish list items aside, here is another example of people simply NOT getting it and still equating equality with concepts that must honor white privilege above all and then pay lip service to fairness or equality of opportunity.
I have totally lost any use for people like him...he IS the problem and if he won't change or accept that change is gonna happen, well, let's just say its not wise to stand in the way knowing that lava is flowing and nothing can stop it...
stillcool
(32,626 posts)with the American people. "We must never let them take power". Guess he missed all the protests. Time is going to come
msongs
(67,462 posts)Caliman73
(11,752 posts)That's usually lurking not too deeply in the vocabulary of idiots like that.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)The dumbass racist and his kind just can't face the inevitable.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,811 posts)Hagedorn is going down in November. Trump ass kisser.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Know that District and with all the Brown envelopes going in those Farm Mail Boxes,it ain't going to happen.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,811 posts)And will continue to climb as it gets closer to election day. Only 1,600 votes won it for Hagedorn in 2018.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)until he goes for the Jugular on this POS Hagedorn,it is Hagedorns to keep.
Only way you defeat Hagedorn is call him out 24/7 for Racism as well as his voting record.
marmar
(77,097 posts).... White Nationalist much, Rep. Hagedorn?
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)black folk for just walking down the street?"
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Congratulations, Minnesota, for wrestling the "national embarrassment" title from Iowa!