LINK Marjorie Taylor Greene Slams ‘Fascist’ NBA With Idiotic COVID-HIV Comparison
Far-right conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) stooped to a new low on Thursday, questioning why the “fascist NBA won’t let Kyrie Irving play for refusing a vaccine. But yet they still let Magic Johnson play with HIV.” The tweet entirely ignores the fact that COVID-19 is airborne and spread through respiratory droplets, while HIV is passed through direct contact with certain bodily fluids, including blood and semen. While the comparison in and of itself is absurd—and very incorrect—Greene has also conveniently forgotten that Magic Johnson retired from the NBA in 1991 after contracting the virus, only briefly coming back for 32 games in 1995 and 1996.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The next time she and her ilk use the word "fascist", someone please get out a pot & a kettle.
Paul4747
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Oct 16, 2021
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I assume that is an unintended false equivalence.
@racocn8 No, she truly is a fascist.
"A political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition."
She (and the rest of the trumpites) scores in the "centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader" category, "forcible suppression of opposition", and certainy exalts (her idea of) America (as well as Whiteness) over individual rights- in any case over the rights of people who oppose Trump.
I meant that by saying that "That's the pot calling the kettle black" , that infers that Greene is correct in her claim that the NBA is fascist. She is the fascist, and that is understood. Nit picking, I know. sorry.
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