Bread for the world
Speaking of men who treat women like underlings…
A nonpartisan Christian organisation that seeks to end hunger says it has asked for and received the resignation of Republican congressman Ted Yoho from its board of directors, following what it called his “verbal attack” on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
That’s especially interesting because what was Yoho abusing Ocasio-Cortez about? Her argument that an increase in crime is related to an increase in poverty – i.e. that poverty can lead to increased crime. Poverty is also very intimately linked to hunger. Ocasio-Cortez and this Christian organization are on Team End Poverty while Yoho is on Team Poverty Is the Fault of the Poor Person. It was never a good fit.
In a statement on Saturday, Bread for the World said its board met Friday with Yoho and sought his resignation “as an action that reaffirms our commitment to coming alongside women and people of colour, nationally and globally, as they continue to lead us to a more racially inclusive and equitable world”.
See what I mean? Not a good fit. Those words are not words a Republican would ever say.
“As a bipartisan Christian organization committed to alleviating hunger and poverty through sound public policies, Bread for the World upholds the values of respect, dignity, and compassion that Jesus calls us to when engaging decision makers from across the political spectrum,” the statement said.
“We believe that Rep. Ted Yoho’s recent actions and words as reported in the media are not reflective of the ethical standards expected of members of our Board of Directors.”
As Christian organizations go, this sounds like a decent one.
So an organization called “Bread for the World” doesn’t think a man who calls a woman a “fucking bitch” for suggesting the the world would be nicer if everybody had bread can adequately represent them? Seems logical.
Maybe he should start a new organization called “Bread for the World, Except Poor People and Fucking Bitches.”
So, NZ Police are predicting an increase in crime as a result of Covid. They are specifically linking this to job losses and small business/sole trader failures throwing previously middle class families into financial hardship. Over here this is regarded as totally non-controversial. We have a reasonable social safety net compared to the US. If we can see, predict and understand the likelihood of this, why not US leaders?
I recommend Dan Froomkin’s analysis of the New York Times’ take on Ocasio-Cortez’s speech at the House of Representatives on the ‘Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of bitch’ business. It is at Press Watch, and is entitled, ‘The New York Times has a misogyny problem, too’. ‘Both-sides-ism’ – what a pathetic, craven, vacuous way of proceeding it is. We’ll put in Tom Cotton’s piece calling for war in the streets one day, and then a little later, just to balance things, we’ll stick in a nice liberal-minded piece to show that we have no position on anything at all, and then we’ll stick in a wholly unintelligent and viciously superficial piece that pretends that Ocasio-Cortez’s speech is entirely hypocritical, and then, ‘tick-tock’, we’ll push the pendulum back the other way to show how fair-minded we are…