Conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tried to query a witness throughout a listening to on so-called “left-wing organized violence” on Tuesday.
However she could have gotten greater than she was anticipating with the reply.
Greene started by mispronouncing the identify of the witness, Amy Spitalnick, a senior advisor on extremism at Human Rights First, a human rights group. Then, Greene advised that individuals who present abortions are the true “white supremacists,” pausing mid-rant to assault Spitalnick.
“You assume that is humorous, Miss Spitalnick? Is that this humorous to you?” she requested. “Is infants being murdered within the womb humorous to you, since you’re smirking and laughing at me proper now.”
Spitalnick fired again with a really critical response ― not about abortions, however the true menace of white supremacist violence.
“What’s not humorous are the Black folks and Hispanic folks and Jewish folks and Muslim individuals who have been murdered in synagogue, in church, in supermarkets, in mosque, by white supremacists,” she mentioned.
“Are you conscious that all-color persons are murdered?” Greene replied. “That may be a truth, that each single coloration particular person has been murdered. That’s common. It’s not simply that folks of coloration are murdered, white persons are murdered too.”
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Greene additionally attacked trans folks and claimed “trans terrorism” was behind mass shooters, and took offense on the time period “cisgender.”
Spitalnick later referred to as her dealings with Greene and others on the correct “appalling.”
Greene, an in depth ally of Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), final 12 months spoke at a white nationalist occasion.
She has downplayed the specter of white supremacist violence.
“White supremacy shouldn’t be the principle goal,” she mentioned final 12 months.
Greene has additionally pushed conspiracy theories about mass shootings, and final 12 months implied that they might have been staged.