https://freebeacon.com/politics/tlaib-has-promoted-four-viral-racial-hoaxes-in-2019/amp/Tlaib Has Promoted Four Viral Racial Hoaxes in 2019Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) has promoted at least four racially charged hoaxes or debunked stories on Twitter in 2019 and failed to issue statements retracting or correcting her comments.
The most recent example: the case of Amari Allen, a black 12-year-old girl in Virginia who claimed three white boys in her class pinned her down and cut off her dreadlocks. Allen has since recanted the story, but Tlaib has not issued a correction or deleted her tweet praising Allen as "courageous & strong" and having a "power that threatens their core."
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Tlaib was among numerous progressive politicians and pundits who rushed to judgment about the Covington Catholic incident in January at the Lincoln Memorial. Initial videos and media reports made it seem as though Trump-supporting high schoolers had mocked and harassed a Native American man peacefully beating a drum, but further investigation revealed severe inaccuracies in those assumptions.
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Tlaib shared a GQ article on Jan. 30 initially headlined, "The Racist, Homophobic Attack on Jussie Smollett Is Far-Right America's Endgame," the day after the Empire actor claimed masked Donald Trump supporters attacked him in Chicago, hurled racial and homophobic epithets, and put a noose around his neck.
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Tlaib added in her tweet: "The dangerous lies spewing from the right wing is killing & hurting our people. Thinking of you @JussieSmollett, and my LGBTQ neighbors."
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When a black Georgia Democratic lawmaker claimed in July that a white man told her at an Atlanta grocery store to "go back" where she came from, Tlaib tweeted at her, "You are loved. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved."
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This story also began to collapse soon after going viral. Thomas backtracked almost immediately, telling reporters the next day she couldn't be sure the man used the "go back" language as she initially claimed.
The man, Eric Sparkes, confronted her in front of cameras the next day and said he was of Cuban descent and held progressive political views. He admitted to cursing at her for checking out with too many items in the express lane, but he said her racially charged claim was untrue.
At some point such "mistakes" cross the line from confirmation bias into malice. Tlaib - like any reasonable person - should, at least with the third such case forward should have held back until facts became known. I think Tlaib is into the realm of malice, somewhere between believing the objects of her hatred do not deserve caution and not caring about facts at all.
