(February 3, 2024 at 9:56 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(February 3, 2024 at 4:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: I saw a video of two women being turned away from a Biden rally because they were wearing hijabs.
Whether this was a policy decision or just a staffer making a stupid mistake, I don't know. The staff member refused to explain to the two women.
I've never heard of Kulinski before. Do you think he's reliable, or would he exaggerate a small incident?
The Guardian reports:
Quote:Two women have accused Biden-Harris campaign staffers of Islamophobia, claiming they were profiled and disinvited from a campaign event because they were wearing hijabs.
Staff with the campaign have since countered that the women were barred after disrupting other events held by Democratic leaders.
The incident was captured on video and shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday by an account named Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation.
The viral video, which has garnered over 2m views, shows an unidentified staffer for the Get the Vote Out event in Las Vegas on Saturday telling the women that they are not allowed to enter the venue.
“We are choosing who’s going in and out of the event. I’m sorry,” the staffer said.
Off camera, one woman responds: “Why are you choosing us not to go in when we have an invite?”
A separate woman, also off camera, says: “You specifically singled us out.”
The women then accuse the staffer of being “racist” and asks if they were prevented from attending because they are wearing hijabs.
As the women and the staffer talk, the staffer allows others to enter the event venue.
“They’re disinviting us because we have hijabs on our heads. That’s why,” one woman shouts to attendees as they enter the venue.
When a separate attendee asks the staffer if the women can enter, he says: “No, I’m sorry.”
[...]
A spokesperson with the Biden-Harris campaign said that the women were specifically barred after staff discovered that they had disrupted previous events with Democratic lawmakers.
“These individuals were among the group of people not allowed to attend Saturday’s event after previously disrupting and shutting down events with Democratic elected officials,” Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for the campaign, said in a statement shared to X.
A spokesperson with the Clark County Democrats in Nevada forwarded the Biden-Harris campaign’s response to the Guardian when asked for comment.
A source close to the Biden-Harris campaign added that the women had previously protested during a speech by the Nevada senator Jacky Rosen earlier this month.
After being disinvited from Saturday’s event, the women reportedly continued to protest across the street from the event, the source added.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...ne-protest
The people who were allowed into the rally and didn't protest should be ashamed of themselves.
