“There has to be a certain amount of respect.”
While many liberals continue going off against Ivanka Trump after she was verbally attacked on a commercial flight, actor and talk show host George Lopez — no fan of her father President-elect Donald Trump — sees it differently.
Clip via TMZ
“How about if you were traveling with your family and somebody went off on you?” he asked TMZ.
And that’s exactly what happened when the first daughter boarded a JetBlue flight with her husband and family and a crazed fellow passenger launched into a rage, demanding to know why she was on that flight.
When Lopez was asked whether Brooklyn attorney Dan Goldstein, the irate passenger, would become a legend for confronting Ivanka, he said, “He’ll become a legend on Greyhound,” because “he won’t be able to fly.”
Lopez’s common sense approach isn’t one shared by his fellow-liberals — including media outlets. In fact, they don’t even call it an act of harassment or confrontation. They call it something else. Think Progress editor Judd Legum called it “talking.”
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Passenger kicked off Jet Blue flight for talking to Ivanka Trump. “Your father is ruining the country!,” he said https://t.co/BbghfOSva4
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 22, 2016
Yahoo News also got into the act, calling the man’s screaming “questioning.”
Man kicked off JetBlue flight for questioning why Ivanka Trump was on it https://t.co/mXIL1KfgR2 pic.twitter.com/vWeeQvHjj8
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) December 22, 2016
Talking Points Memo also chose minimize the man’s shouts, calling them jeers.
Ivanka Trump reportedly jeered at by fellow passenger in JetBlue coach: “Your father is ruining the country” https://t.co/DqjUeCgCe0 pic.twitter.com/7U5q7N0Ans
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) December 22, 2016
Heat street contributor and The Wilderness editor Stephen Miller observed:
Isn’t it amazing how fast the word “harassed” disappears from their vocabulary. pic.twitter.com/CqKyCU8jH3
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 22, 2016
And even those who recognized the harassment for what it was shifted blame from the harasser to the harassed — Ivanka Trump. Her sin? counseling her father.
Columnist for The Guardian and self-described feminist author Jessica Valenti promoted this notion in a string of tweets.
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I don’t know what this person said to her and in what tone – & obvs I’m not down with scaring someone’s kids – but she’s not a child.
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) December 22, 2016
Also, it’s infantilizing & sexist to argue that Ivanka should be shielded from public criticism.
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) December 22, 2016
Again, if someone was screaming up in her kids’ faces that is absolute shit. But let’s not treat grown women like children.
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) December 22, 2016
Haven’t we seen this “blame the victim” approach used before? Oh yes — in rape cases.
@JessicaValenti her skirt was too short, she was asking for it
— Craig (@KC11A18A) December 22, 2016
Yeah, that’s the one. Pathetic.
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