We’ve reached a point where, whenever I see someone called a racist, I assume it’s a false accusation - and after reading the article, my suspicion is usually confirmed. The term has been so overused that it’s lost much of its meaning. What he said was needlessly personal and inflammatory, but I don’t see the racism that so many others here seem to.
“needlessly personal” hmm. I wonder what he was referring to that made it so personal. Hmmmmmmmmm. Was it perhaps his race?
Is it not exactly the other way around? I see so many actual racists that they don’t even feel ashamed anymore. Of course, I call much more people racist because there are way more openly racist people! Stop being racist and then you don’t get called a racist by the public.
Would he have mentioned a beeper if the recipient was a white Christian? It hasn’t lost any of it’s meaning it’s just that some people are incapable or unwilling to recognize it unless it’s backed by a nazi symbol, white hoods, or overt calls for racial violence. Your inability to recognize reality does not mean reality ceases to the exist.
Of all the people to make such a sick comment to, and try to be slick about it, he said that shit to Mehdi Hasan. The sharpest journalist and interviewer of our time.
Never should have had that Nazi fuck on in the first place.
Good for CNN.
Conservatives are literal monsters
Later, Girdusky retaliated in a post on X, saying: “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”
Ah yes, once again, when they get caught out being shitbags, “iT wAs JuSt A jOkE!!!”
Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke
Then what’s the punchline, asshole? Jokes have punchlines. So what was it?
The punchline is that in the end white people are largely fine with terror attacks on brown people.
And that punch is killing hundreds every day with your taxpayer money.
If we form a line to punch him in the face, would that qualify?
Harris was right, these are very unserious people. They seem to spend their entire lives making “jokes”.
They have become so obsessed with triggering people for reactions they eventually forgot what a joke actually is.
So was Hillary. These people are deplorable.
“You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi”
It’s not false.
Also, who is he referring to?
Nobody. He’s just playing victim.
On Monday’s prime time show, after Muslim journalist Mehdi Hasan stated that he supports Palestinians, conservative commentator Ryan Girdusky responded, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”
The remark is offensive, but how is it racist? The implication was that Hasan’s ideology is similar to that of Hezbollah, which isn’t a race.
the implication is that all arabs are terrorists, which is 100% racist
Worse still, Hasan isn’t Arab at all. He was born in the UK to Indian parents.
Yeah, I was born in the US to Indian parents, and I was still 100% an Arab terrist in the south.
I think that’s quite a stretch. Girdusky’s comment is clearly a response specifically to Hasan’s expression of support for Palestinians.
I think that’s quite a stretch.
I assure you, it is not.
LOL ok… i guess congrats for being one of the like 10 people who think that guy’s not actually racist
And the pagers targeted Hezbollah, not Palestinians. Ergo, racist.
Some people can’t hear the dog whistles until they become bullhorns.
It wasn’t just racist, it was a threat.
He said to Hasan that he hoped his pager didn’t go off.
By ‘conservative commentator’ they mean former writer for Richard Spencer, well known um… yeah, fucking Nazi.
Another thing to note about him: Girdusky is also listed as one of the board of advisors of American Moment which is a group that’s listed by the Heritage Foundation as a Project 2025 partner
Wonderful.
Sounds like NewsMax just got a new talking head.
