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Nancy Mace repeatedly shouts anti-trans slur in House hearing: 'I don't really care‘ (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

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Summary

During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) repeatedly shouted an anti-trans slur despite objections from Democratic Rep. Gerald Connolly.

She defended her remarks by attacking transgender rights and dismissing criticism.

The outburst drew condemnation from LGBTQ+ advocates and political figures, highlighting her shift from previously supporting LGBTQ+ rights to embracing anti-trans rhetoric.

Mace has used the slur in past statements and introduced legislation restricting transgender rights.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 hour ago

What a vile human.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 54 minutes ago

Can’t she, like, shut the fuck up? I wish our paths were to cross.

[–] SpitefulSprite@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Shouldn't she be hiding in a bathroom somewhere, faking injuries while trying to inspect other people's genitals?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

t***** is a slur? I gotta watch my deeply pointered C code in the future

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 40 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I hope she chokes on her vomit in her sleep.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Realistically, I'd be happy for her to choke on pretty much anyone's vomit. Extra points for creativity.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I volunteer. I'll eat some weird shit

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A whole bag of Skittles please, so she can taste the rainbow

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

You, I like.

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 111 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a government of the absolute worst people.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

For the absolute worst. The votes were not rigged.

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We're not going to take this lying down

The votes were not rigged, more reason for us to be ready.

[+] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works -38 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Gross. You are become them. Classic American - apply a bit of stress and you cry Guns!

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago

When someone with guns is coming for me, what do you suggest I should do? Sweet reason? Aikido?

If you don't understand the situation, don't judge. There's a big difference between persecution and resisting persecution.

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 30 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Before this year, I was absolutely anti-gun. I'm a teacher, and it chills me that every time I enter a classroom I think "how the hell am I going to get these kids out of here if shit goes down". That's how I start my Monday's.

Owning a gun at home is statistically more dangerous to you or someone you love than to an intruder.

Most school shooters are taken down by unarmed teachers who work together.

But we aren't facing intruders or school shooters. We are facing the proud boys, Jan6ers, and now the federal government. I normally don't believe in violence and weapons either, but the context has changed and now we cannot rely on promises of public officials to keep us safe. We cannot rely on the police to keep us safe (as if we could before). We cannot rely on any market force to keep us safe.

Only we can keep us safe. This shit is getting real, and for those of us who are most likely staring down the barrel of a fascists gun, we can't just let that happen.

I hate that this is the reality.

I should never have to consider these things.

But in America, every conservative and their mom is carrying, and we in the cities have been complacent. Obviously you are not from America. You don't understand the sheer amount of guns here. Sadly it's creating a feedback loop and to sit unarmed is to be a sitting duck in a civil war/ genocide situation.

The time for the idealism of pacifism is done. If you are neutral you are on the side of the oppressor.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I was a complete pacifist for a couple decades. Now, I'm a believer in peace through being a hard target. You cannot rely on the basic human decency of sociopaths to save you. You need to deter their aggression by making it more costly and risky.

[–] orgrinrt@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

I’d think it this way: Get the training anyway, hold off buying if that’s morally (and understandably so) difficult.

If shit hits the fan before you get one and/or it’s otherwise too late, there’ll be chances of obtaining one in the middle of the shitstorm one way or another. Maybe someone friendly has one, but never got around to proper training? Good thing you did. You can help out and try your best to utilise it as morally but also as professionally and efficiently as you can.

Slightly more long term, you can assist training others, if using one on live targets still feels objectionable (and rightly so!) to you.

Learning the craft and proper handling will not go to waste, if it starts looking even worse than it does now.

It can be good, too, to help others use the things more safely and otherwise properly. May save lives. And you need not take any, not in defense or otherwise, if that’s important to you.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 5 hours ago

Fuck off bootlicker.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 64 points 7 hours ago

Bigoted bitch

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 hours ago

N. Mace is really focusing on lowering the price of chicken eggs I see.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 52 points 8 hours ago

Methinks this Caitlyn Jenner doppelgänger doth protest too much.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 7 hours ago (25 children)

How come the reporting is censoring the word?

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago

It's pretty funny. The whole article is about her using a specific slur but it won't even mention what the slur was. Well done good reporting.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 70 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Hate speech is censored to avoid normalizing language intended to encourage violence against the disempowered.

[–] Lysergid@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

It makes no sense. How people know the word that should not be normalized? I’m non-native speaker and after all blah blah in this thread I still have no idea what is the word. So if someone says it, I won’t even know I should call out that person. Don’t we normalize using slurs by softening reporting? If slur censored why would bigots stop using it if they are not properly shamed? All it does is just hiding issue from media with no effect IRL. IRL, US elected bigot

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oooh, nicely put.

Before your comment, I was thinking, "why not show the word? What word could it be? I'm a big boy and it won't hurt me," but ... after your comment I think I get it.

I may have to take this away and think on it, and thank you for the catalyst.

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

Fuck yeah. Personal growth for the win.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah but you could report without reporting the word if that is the case. You could keep the fact “the slur has been used” yet they go the extra mile to put it and censored it it. The reporting should just say the fact that a representative used a discriminatory language. I agree with you that we are on for 4 years of hyper normalization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

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[–] niketunic@lemmy.world -1 points 6 hours ago

damn. i don’t know much about her other than she’s been pretty vocal about UAP transparency. sucks that she’s an asshole too.

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