This VIRAL video of MAGA is a NEW LOW (seriously, this is bad).

“šŸ˜” There’s a concept in the pop-psychology of Sigmund Freud, who got most things wrong, that still holds up: the idea that an unguarded, reflexive moment can reveal what someone actually believes. This week in Las Vegas, a crowd had one of those moments on camera. šŸ‘‡ At President Trump’s rally at the Red Rock Casino on August 5th, Nevada’s Republican Governor Joe Lombardo paused to honor Officer Austin ā€œZadeā€ Abdelnabi, a 30-year-old Las Vegas Metro police officer and United States Marine veteran who had been shot and killed in the line of duty two days earlier, ambushed responding to a call about an armed suspect. He left behind a wife, his parents, and three siblings. As Lombardo said the officer’s name, part of the crowd booed. The governor stopped, visibly taken aback, and corrected them: ā€œNo, no, we’re not booing him. He’s the officer that passed away here recently.ā€ He then held a moment of silence. Some will say the crowd was simply confused, that they didn’t realize who Abdelnabi was. But listen to the setup. Lombardo’s exact lead-in was, ā€œI know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi.ā€ The crowd had just heard a pastor eulogize this man. The room already knew he was a fallen officer being honored. The only new piece of information between that context and the boo was the sound of his last name, a name that reads as Arabic. That’s what the reflex responded to. Commentators across the spectrum drew the obvious conclusion, and the officer’s own department put out a statement mourning a hero the rally crowd had just jeered. This was a ā€œBack the Blueā€ event. And a fallen officer got booed on reflex the instant his name sounded foreign. It’s a small moment. But small, unguarded moments are exactly the ones that tell you the most. šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ“Œ SOURCES: šŸ“° Mediaite: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/were-not-booing-him-nevada-governor-admonishes-trump-rally-crowd-for-jeering-the-name-austin-abdelnabi-a-fallen-police-officer/ šŸ“° The Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-crowd-boos-fallen-cop-austin-zade-abdelnabi-due-to-ethnic-name/ šŸ“° Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rally-attendee-appears-to-accidentally-boo-dead-vegas-police-officer-12290454 šŸ“° News3LV (local): https://news3lv.com/news/local/were-not-booing-him-jeering-heard-for-fallen-las-vegas-officer-at-trump-event šŸ‘‡ SUBSCRIBE for daily political takes, LIKE to honor Officer Abdelnabi, and COMMENT: what does a reflex like that tell you? šŸ¤” #Politics #Nevada #BackTheBlue #LasVegas #PoliticalCommentary #Shorts #Police #Trump #Hypocrisy #Abdelnabi #Accountability #Vegas”

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