“We are not powerless as American Muslims. We are powerful. We don’t only have the money, but we have the actual votes. And we will use that vote to save this nation from itself,” Hussein said. “Families and children are being wiped out with our tax dollars,” he added. “What we are witnessing today is the tragedy upon tragedy.”
From behind a lectern that read “Abandon Biden, ceasefire now”, leaders from Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona, Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania issued similar warnings that the president could not afford to lose the support of the Arab-American community in states critical to his chances for re-election.
A recent poll showed Biden’s support among Arab Americans has plunged from a comfortable majority in 2020 to 17%.
About 3.45 million Americans identify as Muslim, or 1.1% of the country’s population, and the demographic tends to lean Democratic, according to Pew Research Center. Like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania are also home to significant Arab-American populations and critical to Biden’s re-election mathematics.
“The anger in our community is beyond belief,” Hussein, who is Muslim, told the Associated Press. “One of the things that made us even more angry is the fact that most of us actually voted for President Biden. I even had one incident where a religious leader asked me: ‘How do I get my 2020 ballot so I can destroy it?’”
Against a backdrop of pro-Palestinian protest in the US, Muslim leaders gathered in Dearborn said Biden or the likely Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, were not their only choices next year, and they could choose to sit out the election.
I can’t really wrap my head around that kind of thinking. It’d be fascinating sociologically if it wasn’t so sad and evil and ongoing.
I’ve been using the term “ladder kickers” for a few months regarding people like this
I will say that I know quite a few Asian “white supremacists”. My mother is basically one. They got theirs and seem to forget that we are the whipping boys every time anything bad happens (if it weren’t for my Grandmother being brutally attacked, and likely murdered if my Uncle had not demonstrated the stereotype and gone Bruce Lee to beat the ever loving shit out of some mother fuckers, I would laugh). The weekly call back home has been increasingly frustrating and hilarious as I watch someone who spent the past twenty years mainlining fox news trying to come to terms with being their bogeyman.
That said: I am not convinced it is particularly worse than any other demographic. Well to do(-ish) boomers tend to shift republican because that is what they were indoctrinated into and they think they will benefit. Millenials, who haven’t been corrupted by 4chan and south park, tend to vote liberal, if not leftist, because we know shit matters. Doesn’t matter if you are white, yellow, brown, red, or black or anything in between those ridiculously racist skin color shorthands.
Yeah white supremacists didn’t patent racism (some probably tried) but they have been the most gaslighty about it. Really sucks to see it gaining traction everywhere… a-fuckin-gain. STOP PUTTING A QUARTER IN THAT MACHINE! It just bucks you off and kicks you on the way down.
Sorry your folks have those tendencies, but your uncle sounds like a bugs bunny badass though.
I’m sure most of 4chan and South Park fans would take issue with that btw but w/e thanks for sharing