Earlier this week, things went haywire on CNN when Scott Jennings, the lone conservative voice on the network, asked why Democrats in Minnesota bend over backwards for the Somali community in the state. Jennings noted Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, who recently appeared on television dressed in a hijab.
Host Abby Phillips and other panelists lost their minds, and basically began accusing Jennings of racism.
FOX News reports:
CNN panel erupts when panelist asks why MN Democrats dress like ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ to appease Somali communityA CNN panel erupted on Monday night after a conservative commentator called out the Minnesota lieutenant governor for appearing to wear a hijab.Minnesota Democratic Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan appeared on a Somali TV station wearing what appears to be a hijab at a mall as a widespread fraud scandal implicating some Somali residents plagues the state…”The catering to the Somali community that goes on by the Democrats in Minnesota is a little weird, is it not?” Scott Jennings asked. “They’ve got the lieutenant governor up there dressed like the Handmaid’s Tale.”Jennings was referring to Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a dystopian novel about life under a totalitarian theocracy in which a class of women is forced to bear children amid a fertility crisis. Liberal protesters often wear the modest outfit with its red robes and bonnet as a visual shorthand to warn that America is about become that same type of dystopia.”Why do they cater to them?” Jennings asked. “It’s such a small portion of the population. Democrats put them at the center of everything.”CNN host Abby Phillip balked at comparing the hijab to the handmaids’ outfits.”I don’t think it would be acceptable for you to make a statement like that about Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn. Why on earth is it acceptable to make a statement like that about people —,” Phillip responded.
Watch the segment below:
The point Jennings is making is absolutely valid. You can’t claim Trump is turning the United States into the Handmaid’s Tale and then voluntarily put on a hijab and expect to be taken seriously.
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