{"id":9908,"date":"2019-07-18T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2019-07-18T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:54:09","slug":"peasants-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9908\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilhandled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, people are rather upset about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jul\/17\/trump-rally-send-her-back-ilhan-omar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Goaded on by the president, a crowd at a\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0rally on Wednesday night chanted \u201csend her back! send her back!\u201d in reference to Ilhan Omar, a US congresswoman who arrived almost 30 years ago as a child refugee in the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But it&#8217;s important to remember this didn&#8217;t come out of a clear blue sky.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7NyMDgojd7\">https:\/\/t.co\/7NyMDgojd7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1115352166179508224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We have to find the root causes of domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>We need gun reform to keep innocents safe.<\/p>\n<p>We need to be honest about how social media has made it easier to radicalize young men.<\/p>\n<p>And we need to talk about how white supremacy, sexism &amp; racism perpetuate the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/1073633997731831808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If someone who looks, dresses, sounds, and acts foreign stands up as an elected member of the US Congress and continuously slanders millions of ordinary Americans as white supremacists, what do people think is going to happen? That they&#8217;ll just take this abuse on the chin? There is no population on earth which would put up with such a person for very long, and Omar and her ilk seem determined to see just how far the tolerance of the American public can be pushed. She&#8217;s playing a very dangerous game, and she&#8217;s at least half-responsible for making <em>&#8220;Send &#8217;em all back!&#8221;<\/em> a slogan in American politics, something which would have been unheard of even two years ago. As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said before<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>America has been fortunate so far that white nationalists have tended to be grossly incompetent. This is because there\u2019s been no future in subscribing to it, it\u2019s a dead-end losers\u2019 game. But if Somalis in headscarves are going to spend their time denouncing white people from congress, while at the same time you have a tens of millions of disenfranchised right wingers who happen to be white, an avenue of opportunity might open up. And then instead of the bunglers some competent people arrive on the scene who\u2019ve carefully observed how the ruling classes behave, know how to evade their counterattacks, and form a movement which suddenly becomes too big to shut down. And then the fun really begins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has gone far beyond Republicans versus Democrats. The American ruling classes need to get a handle on this woman, and fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsurprisingly, people are rather upset about this: Goaded on by the president, a crowd at a\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0rally on Wednesday night chanted \u201csend her back! send her back!\u201d in reference to Ilhan Omar, a US congresswoman who arrived almost 30 years &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9908\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9911,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9908\/revisions\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}