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Related: About this forumMeet Beth Van Duyne, bigot and Republican candidate
As Republicans in Texas (and around the country) continue their campaigning in the final stretch of the election season, their rhetoric has become increasingly unhinged and shameful. Republican candidate Beth Van Duyne, who is no stranger to appalling and incendiary views, hit a new low yesterday.
Van Duyne, the former mayor of Irving, posted a racist image of a bruised Black woman and the caption: Decades of woman beating, rapes, illegal drug use, gambling, dog fighting
and all of a sudden the NFL cares about social justice. Though its unclear what Van Duyne was specifically referencing in her post, many Republicans have taken up the Trump mantle of attacking athletes who support the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Van Duyne gained national notoriety with anti-Muslim Facebook posts in 2015 after an Internet hoax claimed a Sharia Law Court was operating in Irving. Politifact investigated the claim and ruled it false. Nevertheless, Van Duyne continued her anti-Muslim campaign. In 2016, she was awarded the National Security Patriot Award by ACT For America, which was designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Van Duynes profile in conservative media rose as a result of her bigoted campaign against Muslims. She became a favorite of Glenn Beck and his rightwing media group The Blaze. When Donald Trump won in 2016, she was tapped as a Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Read more: https://texassignal.com/meet-beth-van-duyne-bigot-and-republican-candidate/
alfredo
(60,065 posts)dem in texas
(2,672 posts)She is a major racist. While mayor of Irving, she claimed the Muslims were going to take over the town and put in Sharia Islamic law. That is why Trump gave her a job.