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“Let Them Die”

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James A. Bacon
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https://twitter.com/AsraNomani/status/1415798146916048898?s=20

by James A. Bacon

The rhetoric is getting ugly out there, folks.

In a counter-protest (against those protesting the enactment of admissions policies that discriminate against Asian-American students) at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Michelle Leete, an official with the Fairfax County NAACP and state and district PTAs, said the following:

So let’s meet and remain steadfast in speaking truth, tearing down double standards, and refuting double talk. Let’s not allow any double downing on lies. Let’s prepare our children for a world they deserve. Let’s deny this off-key band of people that are anti-education, anti-teacher, anti-equity, anti-history, anti-racial reckoning, anti-opportunities, anti-help people, anti-diversity, anti-platform, anti-science, anti-change agent, anti-social justice, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-children, anti-healthcare, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-admissions policy change, anti-inclusion, anti-live-and-let live people.

Then came the line that that triggered applause from the overwhelmingly woke White audience:

Let them die.

Asra Nomani, an Indian-born activist and protest leader, responded to The Daily Wire as follows:

What we heard tonight was hate speech, pure and simple. It was shocking that anyone would cheer and applaud a call to violence… Ironically, her hateful, intolerant words are a perfect illustration of the divisive ideology of critical race theory in action. In the name of tolerance, it preaches intolerance and is a betrayal of all values of humanity and decency.

Maybe it’s time to revisit that wave of fabricated “anti-Asian hate crimes” stories and examine where the anti-Asian hate is coming from.

As far as I can tell, not a single Virginia media outlet covered the speech. The Washington Post did run an article about a decision by Fairfax County school superintendent Scott S. Brabrand to leave at the end of the contract — but nothing about Leete’s quote. As the Washington Post tag-line says, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”

Yes, that’s true. And the Post is turning out the lights.

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21 responses to ““Let Them Die””

  1. Baconator with extra cheese Avatar
    Baconator with extra cheese

    This is the best hope for the end of Woke.
    We need it to become so unattainable that it implodes. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later. Because the “later”potentially becomes a very dark period of tribalistic violence.
    And violence is never acceptable.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      No one is keeping you from your slumber.

  2. James Kiser Avatar
    James Kiser

    We need another real “civil war”. It has already begun with communist democrats looting ,burning and murdering in states across the country.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      They sought to change the government’s mind.
      The Million Maggots sought to change the government’s form.

  3. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
    Dick Hall-Sizemore

    That kind of rhetoric is unacceptable, wherever it comes from.

    1. Steve Gillispie Avatar
      Steve Gillispie

      How was Biden’s recent speech much different?

      1. DJRippert Avatar
        DJRippert

        I’ll bite (I have been fishing in Alaska off the grid) … what recent speech?

      2. DJRippert Avatar
        DJRippert

        I’ll bite (I have been fishing in Alaska off the grid) … what recent speech?

  4. Stephen Haner Avatar
    Stephen Haner

    Leete holds a couple of posts with the PTA, along with her being VP of the Fairfax NAACP. The PTA is an organization that would fold like a napkin if enough parents stopped contributing. Time to fight fire with fire.

  5. emjak Avatar
    emjak

    Looking at the video clip, it seems Ms. Leete is referring to a paper in her hand as she speaks. Combined with the long list of 22 Left-wing epithets of opponents of CRT she methodically pronounced, it seems likely Ms. Leete was not speaking on the spur of the moment but rather with premeditation and with malice aforethought.

  6. Steve Gillispie Avatar
    Steve Gillispie

    Isn’t this just a little more colorful but essentially the same message our white house occupant recently delivered?

  7. James A. Bacon Avatar
    James A. Bacon

    Norma Margulies, a member of the TJ parent-teachers association, has called for a formal investigation into Leete’s speech. In a letter to M. Monell with the PTA:

    I request a formal investigation into this matter as Ms. Leete’s speech is incendiary and is instigating to the use violence a category not protected by freedom of speech constitutional guarantees.

    Ms. Leete’s behavior is intolerable in our democratic society, particularly in her capacity as Vice President of Training at the Virginia state PTA and Vice President of Communications for the Fairfax County PTA. She is also First Vice President of the Fairfax County NAACP.

    We, as citizens, have the right to participate in civic discourse and in the free market of ideas. I could strongly disagree with Ms. Leete’s ideological beliefs, but I could NOT instigate the use of violence against her for such a disagreement.

    I am reserving my right to bring this matter to the police and the FBI as well.

    I am copying this request to the members of the press as they should see in action an officer of the Virginia PTA!

  8. WayneS Avatar
    WayneS

    I guess she could always claim she accidently lapsed into speaking German.

    Although “let them the” doesn’t make sense, does it?

  9. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    Getting? I wonder how Officer Sicknick’s unborn fatherless children…

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndpe09emTSA
    And THAT was the candidate.

    American democracy, like virginity, is a just bubble in the foam of life. One little prick, and it’s gone.

    1. kls Avatar
      kls

      And again and still , David Dorn is forgotten and ignored.

      1. Stephen Haner Avatar
        Stephen Haner

        Unlike others, Nancy won’t try to forgive or explain or justify the violence on the left. Just ignores it. The original claims about that officer’s death have evaporated and have not been replaced by a narrative that blames the rioters. That hardly slows Nancy down, and he knows I’m happy to equate those morons with the moron in this spotlight.

        1. tmtfairfax Avatar
          tmtfairfax

          I can’t figure out who is paying him to monitor and respond. Whoever is paying is getting his/her/its money’s worth.

          And this is not like the Fairfax County NAACP I know. Karen Campblin would never spew language like this.

  10. DJRippert Avatar
    DJRippert

    Did Virginia Mercury run anything about this?

    1. emjak Avatar
      emjak

      As of 6:10 pm today, I checked Virginia Mercury and found nothing on the incident.

  11. James A. Bacon Avatar
    James A. Bacon

    Update: Leete contends that the phrase “Let them die” was misinterpreted and “only even meant to refer to ‘the ideals that show a disregard and lack of support for our teachers who have a truly difficult job to do even without a pandemic.’” She does concede that the point was “inelegantly stated and with a pause for the applause, the timing was off.”

    (See Blue Virginia: https://bluevirginia.us/2021/07/after-speech-denouncing-anti-racial-reckoning-forces-goes-viral-on-right-wing-media-fairfax-naacp-issues-statement-decrying-false-narrative-in-the-media-saying-we-stand-firmly-by-our-1)

    I am willing to accept this explanation. People do, from time to time, express themselves inartfully, as we frequently saw in the case of a certain president of the United States who shall remain unnamed. Does anyone remember “There are good people on both sides?”

    Large swaths of the media deliberately and repeatedly distorted that inelegant statement — which referred to people for and against Confederate statues, not to ne0-Nazis and the Klan — knowing it to be inaccurate and unfair. Conservatives should not repeat the same sin in condemning Leete.

    1. kls Avatar
      kls

      Words are words and you can’t just change the meaning after the fact. Unless you allow it for everyone!

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