Kansas official on Indigenous candidate: She'll be sent back to the reservation
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article219720280.html
A local Kansas GOP official lashed out at Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids on social media earlier this week, saying “your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian
will be sent back packing to the reservation.”
The Facebook message was written by Republican precinct committeeman Michael Kalny of Shawnee and sent to Anne Pritchett, president of the Johnson County Democratic
Women’s north chapter.
“Little Ms. Pritchett- you and your comrades stealth attack on Yoder is going to blow up in your leftist face,” Kalny wrote. “The REAL REPUBLICANS will remember what the scum
DEMONRATS tried to do to Kavanaugh in November. Your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian Indian will be sent back packing to the reservation.” Roughly 50 exclamation points
followed the end of the message. Davids is running against incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder for the hotly contested 3rd congressional district seat.
If she wins in November, Davids, a lawyer and amateur mixed-martial arts fighter, would become the first ever openly gay member of the Kansas Congressional delegation, as well as
the first female Native American lawmaker in Washington. Republican leaders condemned their colleague’s words after being contacted by The Star. Jim Joice, the executive director
of the Kansas GOP, criticized the local official.
“This is the same type of rhetoric we condemn the left for,” Joice said. “We must be better than this.” In an interview Tuesday, Pritchett said the message could have been a response to
self-described hostile messages she had left in comments on Yoder’s Facebook page. A review of posts over the last two weeks on Yoder’s congressional Facebook page did not turn
up comments from Pritchett. “I’m stunned,” Pritchett said of Kalny’s message.
Davids responded that the message “doesn’t represent Kansas values, and it doesn’t represent the values of the Republicans we know, many who support this campaign.”
Reached by phone, Kalny identified himself as a GOP precinct committeeman in Kansas. Precinct committee members are elected positions that represent political parties on a
precinct’s behalf. When asked about the message, he asked “what is this lady trying to accomplish?”
When questioned further about whether he wrote the message, he said he needed to talk to his attorney and hung up the phone. In recent months, Kalny had also served on the board
of directors for the Kansas City Barbecue Society, said executive director Carolyn Well. But that ended Monday night around the same time Kalny’s message about Davids began
circulating. The barbecue society said Kalny resigned for “personal reasons.”
538 gives the Kansas 3rd and 2nd basically even odds, i guess that dude must be feeling the heat
GOP "We're the representation of the American People, but fuck Americans in particular"
I'm giving another 3-5 years if shit doesn't change. GOP candidates will begin spouting death threats towards rival politicians or non-republican voters.
though we ain't far off since Trump made that one tweet about "2nd Amendment people"
"'Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.'"
“This is the same type of rhetoric we condemn the left for,” Joice said.
Um, what?
No. The left doesn't make that kind of rhetoric.
Nowhere near the same scale or quantity as the right does, if you want to be technical.
Stop referring to Natives as 'Americans'. Yes, they were here before us, but the term 'american' refers to those originating from the USA. You wouldn't call a Canadian an American. That's like referring to Tartars as Russian. Is there a large Tartar population within Russia? Yeah. Were they there before the Russians? Yeah. Are they Russian? No.
t. American whose native grandfather taught them the difference between "American" and "Native American"
I meant everyone in general...
Ah, I see. I thought you were referring to Natives in particular because the official insulted her heritage.
If only he had used more exclamation marks, his point would have been interpreted as excellently presented.
Is the term Amerindian okay? I like that one, nixes confusion.
"We condemn our delusional strawman of the left for" would be more accurate.
Native Americans have literally nothing to do with India
I am 100% aware but everyone I know still calls Native Americans Indians and it always confuses me.
Well if we're coming up with new terms we should make them as factual and non-misleading as possible
Reublicans really are the biggest cunts on the planet
I always figured "Native American" referred to being a native of the American continent, not the United States of America. This seems like splitting hairs.
Yep, exactly. Inuits are still Native Americans, despite living largely in modern-day Canada.
Everyone living in 2018 while they living in 1818, I saw a disturbing about of tweets (if they're from real people) unironically calling for the disenfranchisement of women.
And the recent Native American vote suppression in North Dakota, upheld by the SCOTUS.
all things are not equal in politics these days.
I mean, I guess we DO call them nazis and racists
but then again
that's only when they're nazis and racists
which is
as you can see here
quite often
I guess Trump's dumbass Pocahontas comments about Elizabeth Warren are license for supporters of the orange to spout bullshit like this. This is unreal, a real person made something indistinguishable from
a Russian troll bot.
Er, isn't the reservation still in the state? What would this accomplish? Do they think "Native American reservation" is some sort of third-world country or something?
"YEE-JUP WE'RE GON' DEPORT THE NATIVE AMERICANS BACK TO NATIVE AMERICA! MAKE AMERICA WHITE AGAIN!"
Imagine it being about a black candidate and the tweet said "Gonna send you back to the ghetto"
I'm not saying any particular reservation is a shitpile, but the racist twats aren't going to be that charitable.
Being a racist piece of shit got Trump into the White House so that'll be the go to strategy for most Repubs going forward.
Yea I saw the cropped version of the title: "Kansas official on Indigenous candidate: She'll be sent back to..." and started laughing. I was picturing a white person giving up the keys to their house and being like, "Yea you go back where you came from!"
Christ this makes me at a loss for words, thanks Trump for setting race releations back to 1969
I still have to register before the 16th so I can be sure to get her .001% closer to beating Yoder
Here's hoping Kobach doesn't find a reason to prevent me from registering :V
Race relations never improved, people were just being subtle about their hate for the other by giving others low-key hints in their policy positions. Which is why it may seem like racism is on the rise, but people were just being racist in the confort of their home and around their own families.
