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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 03:35 PM May 2015

Ann Coulter Refuses To Be Hugged By An Undocumented Immigrant

Conservative writer Ann Coulter refused to hug an undocumented immigrant during an audience Q&A portion of an interview Tuesday on Fusion.

Activist and undocumented Ecuadorian immigrant Gaby Pacheco walked up to the microphone and asked whether she could give Coulter a hug.

Coulter refused, saying she was “recovering from the worst flu I’ve ever had.”

....

Ramos said “most immigrants are not terrorists nor criminals” and asked Coulter whether she thought people were “biologically predisposed to commit crimes.”

“No, I think there are cultures that are obviously deficient and if they weren’t deficient you wouldn’t be sitting in America interviewing me, I’d be sitting in Mexico,” Coulter said to Ramos. “You fled that culture because it is a — there are a lot of problems with that culture.

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Coulter, who was appearing on the show to promote her book “Adios, America,” said the country was about to lose it’s title as “the best in the world” and that the ones to suffer would be the "weak ones."

"It's the women. It's the children. It's the animals. It's the plants," Coulter said. "No country has had the sort of respect for women that Anglo-America does and that is going out the door."

TPM


She was probably worried she'd snap in half.
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Ann Coulter Refuses To Be Hugged By An Undocumented Immigrant (Original Post) Capt. Obvious May 2015 OP
Yeah---Swine flu. trumad May 2015 #1
. Rex May 2015 #2
Horrid woman. Cleita May 2015 #3
She is a walking disease onecaliberal May 2015 #4
Well, at least she didn't say Aryan-America...however much she wanted to. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2015 #5
No country has had the sort of respect for women that Anglo-America does... wait Anglo Johonny May 2015 #6
She's not into touchy-feely stuff. Octafish May 2015 #7
she is the devil's dingleberry olddots May 2015 #8
Why would anyone... 3catwoman3 May 2015 #9
She's unique. lpbk2713 May 2015 #10
Why Did He Want To Hug That Horrible Person? (eom) ProfessorGAC May 2015 #11
I hope Gaby went out and bought a lottery ticket... bluesbassman May 2015 #12
That's Gaby's good fortune. TheCowsCameHome May 2015 #13
She is definitely allowed to say no to any hugs she doesn't want to participate in. KitSileya May 2015 #14

Johonny

(20,953 posts)
6. No country has had the sort of respect for women that Anglo-America does... wait Anglo
Wed May 27, 2015, 03:55 PM
May 2015

I'm not aware of this Anglo-America. Where else besides Coulter's small mind does it exist?

KitSileya

(4,035 posts)
14. She is definitely allowed to say no to any hugs she doesn't want to participate in.
Wed May 27, 2015, 05:08 PM
May 2015

And we shouldn't shame her for that. A big part of consent culture is teaching everyone from they are children that they have the right to refuse hugs and kisses if they don't want to get them. Shaming Ann Coulter for that just because she's a despicable republican is just plain wrong.

Now, shaming her for her despicable views on immigration and other cultures, on the other hand, that is absolutely fair game, and she should be roundly and soundly shamed for what she said about Mexican culture.

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