A Trump Fan Just Got Caught Harassing A Muslim Woman At Trader Joe's in VA

[iluvtennis]

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She told the woman I wish that they had never let you in the country. The Muslim woman told her she was born here. Then this trumpian says, Well Obama is not in office any more, the Muslim is gone and you better watch out.

Boy, with Trump in the WH, these bigots feel empowered to do and say anything. I want one of them to say something to me, I won't hold back on telling them how I fell about them.

GAAAAH

[elleng]

1. Glad this made it over here.

Please cross-post in Virginia.

Thanks

[iluvtennis]

3. I don't know how to cross-post - HELP

[elleng]

4. Open a thread in Virginia, Copy title, of this,

post it as title in Virginia, and copy url of this one over there. Thanks.

[iluvtennis]

14. Done...thanks for the help. I'm a newbie and have so form only posted in the General Dis.

[elleng]

20. Welcome! Glad you're here!

[riversedge]

2. After the bigot said Obama is gone she said something about--'maybe in jail' but I could not

her quite what she was saying. Anyone catch it??

[elleng]

5. Blather, not clear.

[iluvtennis]

6. Found better version on you tube

she said Obama may be in jail in the future...must be about the wiretapping. How misinformed the trumpians are.

[DesertRat]

12. Some of my rw relatives are convinced that President Obama is going to jail

And Hillary Clinton too. For what exactly, I don't know. But I occasionally see posts about it on my Facebook feed.

[riversedge]

21. Thanks. The bigot was referring to Obama -that is for sure.

[More_Cowbell]

23. Not available anymore

No idea why

[IronLionZion]

45. several copies of it on youtube

[JI7]

28. i wouldn't say are misinformed but rather want to believe certain things

[dchill]

88. They're selectively and deliberately misinformed.

A symptom of their bigotry.

[DesertRat]

8. She said "he may be in jail too. In the future."

[MiniMe]

62. That's what I heard too

[ProudLib72]

7. The woman doing to vid

seems rational, telling the bigot she needs to seek help. "Oh, I'm completely normal", she sneers. The men in white coats need to bring her a straight jacket ASAP.

[iluvtennis]

15. Yes, the Muslim woman kept her composure very well...I know I would have lost it :-)

[GreenEyedLefty]

47. This video chilled me to the bone.

"Oh, I'm completely normal."

This is a perfect example of the banality of evil. That woman would gladly send innocent people to their deaths, and smile whilst doing so.

[byronius]

65. And yet she's probably perfectly pleasant to her own kind.

It speaks of a desperation -- a moral desperation? -- that she would accost a stranger in public. I bet she considers herself a staunch Christian, and I bet she buys into both Prosperity Gospel and Holy War On Muslims, and therefore sees no irony in heaping abuse on Others and the Poors.

But that's fucking insane. Totally fucking insane. And if a whole group of people really believe this together, and talk about it, and make it their world --

That lifestyle is a catastrophe. Life is hard enough, but to invest all one's thought and spirit into dreaming of abattoirs for fellow citizens -- they doom themselves, and weigh on the rest of us.

There's a reason red states are all dirt poor and poisoned and empty.

This.

[IronLionZion]

49. People have had conversations like this with their German grandparents

on how they could deal with the holocaust happening in front of their eyes. It seemed completely normal to many Germans at the time. A lot of Nazis didn't think of themselves as bad people.

Normal is an ambiguous concept.

[ProudLib72]

51. Perhaps Yates and Clapper tomorrow will begin our own Nuremberg trial

so we can nip this crap in the bud.

[lunasun]

52. Yep

[redstateblues]

63. The bud? It is in full bloom

[janterry]

9. It's a good reminders that deplorables

look just like us.

It's so easy to think that bigots stand out - that you could pick them out of a crowd. But you can't - this woman looks like such a nice middle-class woman.

Except she's not nice and her ignorance is right there, for all to see.

[yuiyoshida]

27. wait now, I don't know many deplorables

That look like me, .. or a few others here. I would wager to say most Minorities didn't vote for Trump. Hispanic, Blacks, Asians...Pacific Islanders (Like me)

[janterry]

37. I think that few minorities voted for Trump

but I was talking more about her presentation. She looks educated and middle-class. She looks stable economically. The racists that I have encountered were nice to their friends and family, I'm sure - and some were educated - and even stable economically
but the folks that stood out for me wore t-shirts and hats or had stickers on their cars that said horrible things.

I was yelled at in public several times not for doing anything, but because they assumed I was liberal (really, from a distance! It was shocking).

I kind of knew where many of them stood because they wore things that announced what they believed - they wanted me to know where they stood.

This woman has none of that

[yuiyoshida]

38. And she is White, like most people here

but our PARTY IS MORE diverse than the Republicans, the point I was driving at.

[JI7]

69. Trump got more White people with College degrees than Hillary. It was less than previous republican

candidates. but he still won more of them than hillary did.

there is a lot of focus on the lower income whites but they alone would not have given him a victory. it took a bunch of middle and higher incomes to do it.

[janterry]

74. Did they?

Wow. More Caucasian and male - or just most Caucasians with degrees period?
Though, I must say - that makes sense.
Where I used to live (at least in the surrounding counties - not our city, proper), he was elected overwhelmingly. Many of them didn't have degrees, I suppose, but many did - I have worked in those towns and know them well. Most were very racist (as in flying the confederate flag right as you are 'welcomed' into town) and Caucasian (though not all, the South is such a different place, culturally, than the North - and certainly varied .

Those areas lack opportunity (tbh, they really never had much in the way of opportunity). There are plenty of prisons that offer jobs (usually the biggest employer in town). But the pay is horrible and the work - well, hard.

I guess the dividing line was really just about economic opportunity.

[JI7]

75. hillary did slightly better with college educated white women

and trump did slightly better with college educated white men. combined college educated whites went for trump a little bit more than for hillary . but non college educated whites went for trump in huge numbers .

[Neema]

87. Sadly, I know quite a few

Pacific Islanders who voted for 45. Big supporters, even though they are immigrants themselves. I just have to shake my head.

[True Dough]

10. "I'm very normal."

Yeah, normally hateful!!!

[The Wielding Truth]

32. Scared of things she does not understand and brainwashed.

She has no ideal what she is spewing. Her hate is based on lies and she is living in a strange little world where she is being led around and being used by those who only wish to grow wealthier off the working poor.

What a fool to think that Pres. Obama was a Muslim, too. And even if he were, it wouldn't be a problem as long as he would adhere to the Constitution.

[tblue37]

11. And she did this after the Muslim woman kindly let her go ahead of her in line! nt

[iluvtennis]

16. Yeah, I caught that. un-fkn-beleiveable

[Demonaut]

80. she saw that act of kindness as submission, I hope she's outed for her self righteous bigotry

[Nay]

84. Exactly this. Be nice to a RWer, esp if you are perceived as a second-class

person, and they will simply take it as their due, not as an act of kindness.

[catsudon]

13. What a xxxxxxx

I thought only progressives shop at Trader Joe's

[iluvtennis]

17. LOL...I shop there for the better quality of food and MUCH CHEAPER than Whole Foods.

[Ilsa]

18. Just think how pissy that bitch will get when dcht is forced to resign.

Or maybe he'll be the one in prison. I'd love for the muslim woman to run into her again and smile really big.

[iluvtennis]

19. Yep, payback will be do much fun

[lpbk2713]

22. Too stupid to be let out of the house.

She needs a handler. And a leash.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

54. I beg your pardon!

None of my dogs would ever behave like that. Unfortunately my daughter would, though.

[Glimmer of Hope]

24. What a nutty asshole.

[blueinredohio]

25. If I saw any of them doing it to someone I would step in.

[kimbutgar]

26. I hope this woman is identified and receives negative feedback from her community

If she is employed I hope she loses her job.

[smirkymonkey]

31. +1000

[Cooley Hurd]

76. The vid's gone viral - Mediaite's on it:

http://www.mediaite.com/online/going-viral-virginia-woman-caught-spewing-anti-muslim-and-anti-obama-hate-in-trader-joes-line/

You know how this works. Say something racially-charged enough or obnoxious enough on camera, and you just might have a chance of getting a lot of online attention.

A video is going viral this weekend as it shows a lady harassing a Muslim woman while they were both in line for the cash register at a Trader Joes store in Virginia. WJLA reports that the incident occurred after the Muslim woman allowed her fellow shopper to cut ahead of her.

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Her life is going to suck now...

[Jack-o-Lantern]

29. Damn right. I would step in too and give her an earful she would never forget.

[bathroommonkey76]

30. She should have held the camera 3 inches from her face.

I hope this b*tch enjoys her newfound fame- Let's hope & pray she loses her job, too. In Jesus name. Amen.

[BigOleDummy]

33. What

a douche.

[erronis]

34. I used to shop at that Trader Joes - most people in the area are very liberal

I think that irks backwoods or ignorant types. Having to deal with people who aren't as trashy as themselves.

Passing this around to some friends still in the area.

Hoping payback is a bitch, bitch.

10SNE1 - where do you play?

[griloco]

35. Does she realize...

Does it dawn on the white, likely Christian woman that the one who let the U.S. born Muslim lady into this country was God?

[NBachers]

36. Wait- aren't we Democrats supposed to cater to people like this and entice them to vote Democrat?

After all, we've been victimizing people like this for a long time. That's why Hillary lost!

[iluvtennis]

40. Yeah that's what the pundits say, it's horse shit.

[elleng]

41. 'Cater?' No.

More like Rationally inform and persuade.

[IronLionZion]

44. Hillary won this region by a large margin.

Reston doesn't have the economic issues of the rust belt or coal country. Some people are just deplorable.

[betsuni]

68. I know!

I'm scared of these angry stupid hate-people. I was nervous she'd pull a little gun of her bag. Other people can try to talk to them, but not me, I'd run away whimpering like the Cowardly Lion.

[Warren DeMontague]

73. Here, I thought we were supposed to be trying to win over "megachurch moms".

Do you think she drives a minivan? Maybe she's in a panic over sex scenes on basic cable?

[Initech]

39. WTF is wrong with people?

And when did it become a thing to be such a hateful asshole in public? Just because our president is a hateful asshole, doesn't give you the right to be one, either.

[IronLionZion]

42. I'm glad DUers understand that this is unacceptable and outrageous

it gives me hope for humanity. Brown people deal with this every day even in liberal NoVa which Hillary won in a big way. She got Fairfax and Loudoun counties by decisive margins. Reston is in very diverse, educated, wealthy Fairfax county. A lot of minorities live in Reston.

We're not just over sensitive triggered snowflakes. It's a daily barrage of lunacy.

Bigots have been emboldened after the election and think they can harass and intimidate brown US Citizens, especially those of us who are born in America and compete with these bigots for US citizen only jobs in federal contracting. They desperately convince themselves to believe that Americans are white and foreigners are brown as if their careers, houses, and livelihoods depend on it.

Many brown federal employees have already been demoted or reassigned to bullshit simply for having Middle Eastern or South Asian ancestry. It's happened to Republicans who joined during the Bush administration. Americans have randomly lost their Global Entry/TSA Pre-check simply for having foreign sounding names. Deplorables even point to Trump's one brown FCC chairman as an excuse for all the other brown people who have been Trumped already in the first 100 days.

Nobody tells the Trumps that America should have never let them come over from Germany and Scotland.

[lunasun]

58. ++++++A Zillion

Black and brown get this from plenty of (surprise )upper middle class "average white people"
People here seem surprised because she is not toothless, a senior or doesn't seem uneducated or where she lives
It doesn't really factor in that way in my experience .
As you pointed out, depending where you are located , the bigot can take many forms

[onetexan]

43. i'd definitely give the likes of her a good verbal beatdown as well if this ever happened to me

[elmac]

46. The tRumpsters are a deplorable lot

that is why I have nothing to do with them. They are very sick in the head and want to take everyone down to their hateful little existence.

[byronius]

48. That is one truly awful human being.

'I'm perfectly normal,' she says. Uhhhhhh-huh.

[calimary]

50. Shit. My husband and I were out shopping at one of the local big box stores

and I just had to stop a minute.

Know what I saw?

I saw two young Jewish guys at one counter, joking with each other. One of 'em wore a yarmulke.

I saw a Black dad with his little kid whom he'd hoist up to sit on the counter while he completed his transaction.

I saw a mixed-race couple, and then another mixed-race couple.

I saw a Latino family, and then another Latino couple.

I saw a tall lanky light-skinned Black dude with dreadlocks.

I saw several students in a group, stocking up on snacks.

I saw two women wearing the hijab and carefully checking their shopping list.

I saw a white guy pushing his shopping cart with his kid seated in the kiddie seat, kicking her little legs like it was going out of style.

I saw a Latino dad with his little girl half-hanging off the side of his shopping cart (she was obviously hinting that she wanted up into that kiddie seat).

I saw quite a few elderly people. And lotta middle-aged people - of all colors, shapes, and postures.

I saw overweight people and short-statured people.

I saw a white woman who looked like she'd dressed for the office.

I saw another mixed-race couple and a middle-aged Anglo couple, and a middle-aged Asian couple. And another Latino family...

And it just gave my face the biggest smile.

I thought - I Love L.A. EVERYBODY's here. I live in The World.

[Lucinda]

56. I miss it a lot. Grew up in the San Gabriel valley and have lived all over So Cal

I have been gone too long. We just had a big windstorm/w rain that knocked out our power for three days, but the night before it was just a great strong breeze that reminded me sooo much of the Santa Ana winds...

[Ilsa]

57. That's the US, a nation of immigrants.

It makes us stronger.

[IronLionZion]

59. Yup, that's the scene at the Trader Joes in Northern Virginia too

where this incident happened. It happens even in liberal educated diverse areas. There are deplorables in LA too.

[calimary]

61. Sadly there ARE Deplorables everywhere.

Fortunately, it's pretty bright blue in my Congressional district. We have the wonderful and increasingly ferocious True-Blue Ted Lieu representing us. Which is HEAVEN! So far his backbone seems to be made of absolute steel.

[byronius]

64. Sacramento's like that. I love it for that reason.

[kimbutgar]

93. I live in the SFBay Area

We have this mall in the east bay called the great mall. When you go there the so many hues of colors of people would make this woman's head explode. A lot of Muslims, Asian Indians, Hispanic, Black and white people all enjoying shopping and intermingling with no problems. This is real America not white bread city.

[phylny]

95. Her head might explode, but it's not like she lives in an area that isn't diverse.

Plenty of everyone in and near Reston.

[bucolic_frolic]

53. They think it's a one-party state: Theirs!

just like the Soviet Union, one-party

[kwassa]

55. Trader Joe's? Reston, VA? A liberal store in a liberal diverse town.

A very strange setting for this event. The DC suburbs are incredibly diverse, and Muslim women are not uncommon at all.

[phylny]

94. Yes, I was very surprised to see this in Reston.

Where *I* live in Virginia, sure. But not there.

Has anyone discovered who this person is?

[kwassa]

96. I assume this woman was not local to the area ...

but the real red areas of Virginia are not far away.

[Chipper Chat]

60. Trump will probably invite her to the White House.

"This woman was so bigly courageous in standing up to that nasty Muslim bigot. I will guarantee that I will soon sign an executive order called the "White People Protection Act of 2017" which will protect ower white American citizens from discrimination."

[cvoogt]

66. very surprising

as this is my local Trader Joe's, and it's a very diverse crowd there. So diverse, in fact, it also includes people like this strange woman.

[JI7]

71. even the most liberal places have right wing bigot scumbags. just as very right wing red areas will

have some liberals.

they will be outnumbered greatly by the opposite. but they are there so it's not surprising .

[cvoogt]

82. the surprising part

is that this woman apparently thought that this would be a good idea

[IronLionZion]

79. That's what makes it so frustrating

Some liberals think bigots are somewhere else or they imagine some caricature of what a deplorable must be like, but they are right here as our neighbors and seem like anyone else until they open their mouths.

[cvoogt]

83. Oh I know

I have neighbors who are gun-humper NRA supporters. But to walk into a Trader Joe's in super-diverse and blue Reston and strike up that sort of conversation... well that is surprising and makes me wonder indeed if that woman's really all there. She must know it's futile and makes her look dumb.. but apparently she does not.

[Judi Lynn]

67. Looking forward to finding out more about her when someone recognizes and outs her. n/t

[JI7]

70. she is the norm among Trump supporters .

[JI7]

72. i find her creepier and more disgusting than that dumbass trump supporter on the plane

yelling about hillary bitches and how trump is president.

[Warren DeMontague]

77. Yuk.

Probably mentally ill, like the lady in the Santa Monica yogurt shop.

[ProfessorGAC]

78. "Completely Normal"?

Oh no you're not, lady! Normal is, in fact, live and let live. You are an abnormal troll, through and through.

[dalton99a]

81. After the tirade she goes home and asks Jesus to find her more victims to harass

[niyad]

85. if I heard anything like that, I would step right into it as well. I am glad the woman

being harassed stood up for herself. and yes, the woman is crazy.

[workinclasszero]

86. Another MAGA racist Trump humper

opens its vile pie hole.

These people are a cancer metastasizing in the soul of America.

[treestar]

89. You have to be pretty deplorable to

state that President Obama is a Muslim. That's just stupid.

[JHan]

90. The economic anxiety was too much for her to handle in Trader Joe's.

She had to let it all out.

[VOX]

91. Why is it ALWAYS RWers who start shit in public?

They open their yaps FIRST every time, usually to someone who isn't white/Christian. They have no filter, or capacity to feel or imagine what another person might be experiencing when they start in with their shit. They are just compelled to rage away, no matter how nutty and intrusive (and blatently racist) their comments are. I've lost count of the number of videos and news blurbs I've absorbed about Trump voters who go after food servers, students, women (anywhere), peaceful demonstrators, etc. with everything from foul mouths to loaded weapons.

Engaging strangers in a confrontational or threatening manner and blathering paranoid, xenophobic streams of consciousness used to be hallmarks of insanity. The only people who did that were emotionally imbalanced and needed psychiatric help.

But now? They form the base of a major political party. And those party members like to repeat (ad nauseam) that "liberalism is a mental disorder"-- they even project their craziness onto others.

[iluvtennis]

92. Well said!

[JI7]

97. just realized i think it was Kellyanne Conway that this piece of shit reminded me of