Talk about having to take your job home with you… Imagine being a well-known political leader or staffer and taking your job with you everywhere you go. After all, there’s no law against approaching a person and starting a conversation, even an unpleasant one. Then again, there’s no law against ignoring such a person and walking away either.
Press Secretary Sean Spicer just got a chance to do some “homework” while shopping at an Apple store.
Sean Spicer was ambushed while shopping in an Apple Store on Saturday by a woman who called President Donald Trump a ‘fascist’ and accused the White House press secretary of racism.
Shree Chauhan – a 33-year-old Indian-American woman who lives in Washington, DC, and works for a non-profit – posted the video in which she walks up to Spicer and begins harassing him as he shops.
She begins by asking Spicer: ‘How does it feel to work for a fascist?’
Spicer responds: We have a great country’ while appearing to try and ignore the woman.
That sounds like a diplomatic, reasonable response to someone who clearly was looking for a confrontation as becomes obvious from what followed.
Chauhan fires back: ‘We have a great country? Have you helped with the Russia stuff? Are you a criminal as well?’
‘Have you committed treason too? Just like the president. Have you committed treason too? What can you tell me about Russia?’
Spicer smiles politely during the encounter and replies ‘It’s such a great country that allows you to be here’ before eventually walking away.
That had to take a lot of restraint on Mr. Spicer’s part. Yet Chauhan, demonstrating she’s a good liberal by always looking for a reason to be offended, decided Mr. Spicer’s comment was a racist one.
Chauhan, who is of Indian descent and was born in America, claims this was a racist. She told DailyMail.com that she felt as if Spicer was suggesting that she had no right to be in the US.
However, it’s possible Spicer was referring to the right of all Americans to exercise free speech – even if they are confronting one of the most powerful people in the country while he shops.
The likely interpretation of Spicer’s comment is that she is lucky to live in a country where one can make such statements without fear of official reprisal. There are nations where such talk and behavior would result in one never being heard from again.
It’s a tiresome display by those on the left — this business of crying racism or sexism at any opportunity. They are in the victim business, because nothing calls for big programs by big governments more than the identification of a group of voters who claim victim status.
In a blog post she wrote for Medium, Chauhan slams Spicer for his ‘nasty bigotry.’
‘Think about the sheer audacity of Mr. Spicer to say that to my face with a smile, knowing that he that he is being recorded on video and the position of power he holds in our government,’ she writes.
‘I am still stunned by the boldness of having my citizenship threatened on camera.’
Chauhan acknowledges that she was ‘not polite’ in accosting Spicer at the Apple store.
‘But when does being impolite mean that I should be thrown out of the United States of America? The country I was born in, the country I was raised in, the country I love despite its flaws.’
How has Ms. Chauhan’s citizenship been threatened? Where has she been threatened with being run out of the country? These things exist only in her imagination, and in her attempts at publicity and in claiming victimhood.
You say you love the county, Ms. Chauhan? Then learn to defend your political beliefs, if possible, with reasoned statements rather than just making unsupportable claims and shouting insults.
Source: Daily Mail
Foolishness. These people do not even kniw what they are talking about!