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Diamond Member
‘Few Americans would welcome an elected leader from Germany or France who gave a speech on our soil, urging politicians here to stop shunning the Ku Klux Klan. Yet that isn't so far from the message delivered to European officials by Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 14 — which understandably provoked outrage among our allies, just as Vance and his boss, President Donald Trump, must have intended.
Instead of addressing Europe's security concerns, such as Trump's impending abandonment of Ukraine to Russian aggression, Vance lectured his audience on domestic issues such as "free speech," immigration and the rejection of ultra-right extremism.
Nobody familiar with Vance, a man known for spreading false stories about migrants eating pets in his home state, could have been surprised to learn that he uttered numerous falsehoods in Munich. In warning against infringements on religious speech, for instance, he claimed that Scotland had intimidated its citizens from privately praying in their own homes. Scottish officials instantly rebutted that absurd lie, which referred to a carefully drafted law creating small "buffer zones" for protesters at abortion clinics.’
The ‘free speech’ lie is particularly ridiculous – rightwing racists and bigots are at liberty to spread hate speech; to denounce rightwing hate speech doesn’t ‘violate’ that right to free speech.
And Vance not only betrayed our values in Munich, but he embraced the lies and disinformation propagated by the fascist right to advance their agenda of anti-immigrant racism, bigotry, and hate.
Instead of addressing Europe's security concerns, such as Trump's impending abandonment of Ukraine to Russian aggression, Vance lectured his audience on domestic issues such as "free speech," immigration and the rejection of ultra-right extremism.
Nobody familiar with Vance, a man known for spreading false stories about migrants eating pets in his home state, could have been surprised to learn that he uttered numerous falsehoods in Munich. In warning against infringements on religious speech, for instance, he claimed that Scotland had intimidated its citizens from privately praying in their own homes. Scottish officials instantly rebutted that absurd lie, which referred to a carefully drafted law creating small "buffer zones" for protesters at abortion clinics.’
How JD Vance Betrayed Our Values in Munich, by Joe Conason
Few Americans would welcome an elected leader from Germany or France who gave a speech on our soil, urging politicians here to stop shunning the Ku Klux Klan. Yet that isn't so far from the message delivered to European officials by Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference on Feb.
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The ‘free speech’ lie is particularly ridiculous – rightwing racists and bigots are at liberty to spread hate speech; to denounce rightwing hate speech doesn’t ‘violate’ that right to free speech.
And Vance not only betrayed our values in Munich, but he embraced the lies and disinformation propagated by the fascist right to advance their agenda of anti-immigrant racism, bigotry, and hate.
