South Carolina (Yes, South Carolina) Governor: We’ve Never ‘Passed Laws Based On Race Or Religion’
Republican Governor Nikki Haley is wrong, very, very wrong.
It’s been a rough 24 hours for South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley.Â
She delivered probably the best Republican response to any of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Addresses, denouncing hate and bigotry from her party’s extremists, like Donald Trump. And for that, was verbally and digitally annihilated by a great many right wing pundits – not far right, but mainstream Fox News right. To add insult to injury, she was praised by many on the left.
But Haley stood strong.
Wednesday afternoon, Haley spoke at an education event, and said something incredibly false, and, from a first-generation Indian-American and sitting governor of a conservative Southern state that was the first to secede from the Union, outlandish.
“We’ve never, in the history of this country, passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion,” Haley said, according to MSNBC’s Jeremy Slevin.
Immediately, many jumped on Haley, and rightly so.
Slevin also got a bit of push back, namely from Vox, which agreed Haley was wrong, but given the context, not extremely wrong, so Slevin tweeted the quote in context:
Here’s the context of that Nikki Haley quote (Spoiler: it still doesn’t make sense) pic.twitter.com/3tybtL59iS
— Jeremy Slevin (@jeremyslevin) January 13, 2016
Here’s what others are saying – take a look:
@stpete2you @MariaLiaCalvo @jeremyslevin Jim Crow. Internment of Japanese citizens. How long do I need to go on?
— Megan McCready (@McCreadyM) January 14, 2016
@McCreadyM @stpete2you @jeremyslevin Her own marriage would’ve been a crime 50 years ago!
— maria lia calvo (@MariaLiaCalvo) January 14, 2016
Republicans really live in an alternate universe. @jeremyslevin https://t.co/ZNURhEkNTL
— Scott Wooledge (@Clarknt67) January 14, 2016
the internment of Japanese descended US citizens during WW2. the wars against Native Americans. demonization of Asians & Latinos, slavery..
— Monica Roberts (@TransGriot) January 13, 2016
Is Nikki Haley on drugs? @jeremyslevin
— Say Bill Colby (@Goatyeah) January 13, 2016
@jeremyslevin Where to begin? Oh, how about Richard and Mildred Loving?
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) January 13, 2016
Shh, don’t tell her about -slavery -Chinese Exclusion Act -Jim Crow -Japanese-American interment camps @jeremyslevin https://t.co/UOdE66j17u
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 13, 2016
@bijancbayne @jeremyslevin Go back even farther – the anti-Catholic laws in Maryland. She can’t be that ignorant of history.
— DC Sports Artist (@PaulNicholsDC) January 13, 2016
@ryanhealy @jeremyslevin @nikkihaley Her comments show how out of touch GOP has become.
— janeshort (@jeanthorpe) January 13, 2016
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