An "Aleppo"moment
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Miami mayor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez indicated in an interview on Tuesday that he was unfamiliar with the plight of Uyghur Muslims, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority in China whose treatment has been the subject of worldwide condemnation for years.
In an interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, the Republican presidential candidate was asked, “Will you be talking about the Uyghurs in your campaign?”
Suarez responded, “The what?”
“The Uyghurs,” Hewitt said, prompting Suarez to ask, “What’s a Uyghur?”
At the end of the interview, Suarez told Hewitt, “You gave me homework, Hugh. I’ll look at – what was it? What’d you call it, a weeble?”
In a statement to CNN Tuesday afternoon, Suarez denied that he was unaware of the Uyghur situation and the human rights abuses China is accused of committing.
“Of course, I am well aware of the suffering of the Uyghurs in China. They are being enslaved because of their faith. China has a deplorable record on human rights and all people of faith suffer there. I didn’t recognize the pronunciation my friend Hugh Hewitt used,” Suarez said in a statement to CNN.
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Tried finding it, but there was a similar interview with a politician who was asked about the plight of some made up people in a made up country, and the politician, rather than admit he didn't know the situation, gave some stupid answer about how he was in solidarity with them, etc etc.
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I think we’re way past expecting politicians to be knowledgeable.
Remember when Howard Dean got disqualified for saying “beyah!”
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