White Rep. Calls Himself ‘Ethnic,’ Says Green New Deal ‘Tantamount To Genocide’

UNITED STATES - MAY 16: Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, leaves the House Republican Conference meeting at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) told reporters Thursday that for those who live in the west, the ideas in the Green New Deal “are tantamount to genocide,” according to a Friday Washington Post report.

“That may be an overstatement, but not by a whole lot,” he added.

Even when pushed afterward, Bishop stood by the word choice, which refers to the slaughter of a large group of people, usually of one ethnicity of nationality.

“I’m an ethnic,” Bishop, who is white, said. “I’m a westerner. If you actually implement everything they want to — killing would be positive if you implement everything the Green New Deal actually wants to.”

He blamed the proposed legislation on lawmakers who “judge distance not in miles but in subway stops,” an apparent reference to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). “The genesis of this concept is really coming from easterners who live in an urban setting and have no view of what it’s like in the rest of America.”

He later softened the comments in a statement to the Salt Lake Tribune.

“My comments were obviously not meant literally, and should not detract from the fact that the so-called Green New Deal is born of attitudes that show no respect for the lives and livelihoods of the American people,” he wrote.

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  1. Yeah, keep spreading the myth that you’re under attack, and that your very survival is at stake. Certainly no unhinged people would ever overreact to that message, and respond with violence.

  2. Checks 2020 Census Ethnicity Options

    -White
    -Hispanic
    -African American
    -Ignorant Asshat

    Yup, he’s on the list of groups

  3. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Good God they are all insane.

  4. What a sad and stupid old man … your bigotry is showing, congressman. You must be more careful.

  5. Anddd…the stupid old blowhard is already walking it back.

    Except with his constituents, who all agree with him.

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