Republican Sen. Mike Lee (UT) on Thursday blocked consideration for legislation to establish a National Museum of the American Latino and an American Women’s History Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution, declaring amid calls to recognize the history of both demographics, that the nation does not need “separate but equal museums.”
I suppose you could see such a thing as inclusive and not divisive. Depends on your point of view. Sen. Lee reveals his.
Even more so for Mormons then, I guess.
If it’s a Friday, it must be Utah Senator Mike Lee saying something stupid and divisive in a public forum.
I guess he conveniently forgot that the Smithsonian operates the National Museum of the American Indian.
Yeah, to hell with the Holocaust Museum too.
Right Mikey…because you and your fellow bigots treat WOMEN and LATINOS ‘separate but equal’ right??? No special treatment for them! You hypocritical fraud.
“The last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups,” Lee said.
This argument always cracks me up. They will never understand that celebrating diversity is inclusive, not divisive. It’s only divisive if your issue is diversity itself. It’s only divisive if you have a problem with celebrating the accomplishments of others.
Really? So much for being a member of a religious minority that generally (obviously not always) sympathizes with other minorities. Although women are not a minority— we are the majority.
So the Holocaust museum is right out, then?
“The last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups,” Lee said.
@txlawyer I salute you, sir.
“The last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups,” Lee said.
That’s nice.
Ask him about the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. I’m sure he’s familiar with it.
So no museum of the white-republican-idiot?
Maybe the guy just doesn’t like women. I do and I like diversity. Black woman ( The blacker the better ) , Brown ones ( Iranians are awesome ) Asian…any. They can have hyphenated names too.
“Hyphenated Americans”
So the Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter museums are a no go?
No need for a museum celebrating Senator Lee’s species. He is well represented by the paleontological exhibits in the Museum of Natural History.
BTW, how are women a “hyphenated” group?
Asking for my sister… and mother, and cousins and 52% of the human population.
“The last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups,” Lee said.
Sen. Lee, this simple thought demonstrates that your simple mind is unqualified for the complexities of governance. Please remove yourself from all public discourse in the future. Permanently!
“Female-Americans.”
Thank god we still have courageous white men ready to whitemansplain that any history other than history about white men is divisive. I mean, it’s not like you can tell white man history without an occasional woman or person of color entering into the picture somewhere, right?
“The last thing we need is to further divide an already divided nation, but fuck that," Lee said.
What a pathetic pile of shit. Imagine that pile reproducing. Poster boy for birth control.