A Republican candidate for US Congress interrupted a Muslim community day at the Texas Capitol building, shouting deeply offensive Islamophobic hate speech from a podium. Valentina Gomez infiltrated the event by wearing a hijab, which she removed before yelling racist tropes.

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I remember her platform was like 75% slurs by volume—against trans people, black people, Muslims, other Mexicans, all kinds of people. She was too much even for the fascists and lost her primary by a goddamn mile. Yet she’s still out there being weird and hateful.