Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has found herself facing the fire of online critics after giving a bizarre and ridiculous speech in which she claimed, without any real evidence, that her city has been made better and filled with accomplishments thanks to migrants to it from Somalia, a ridiculous claim given the city’s colonial and Revolutionary War-era heritage.
As background, Mayor Wu has found herself repeatedly in the line of fire online because of ridiculous comments she has made about matters regarding immigration and threats she has delivered to Tom Homan, with Boston’s status as a sanctuary city making her yet more notorious amongst online conservatives and the Trump Administration.
Further, the matter of Somali migrants in America is reaching a boiling point because of intense frustration many have with their behavior, particularly the massive amount of fraud connected to Somali migrants in Minnesota, and budding reports of fraud in other states to which they were imported, such as Maine.
So, doubling down on her pro-mass migration attitude and defending the fraud-connected migrant group, Mayor Wu snapped, in a recent speech, “You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had, in safety, jobs and economic development, in education, without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.”
Continuing, she insisted that Boston is only made stronger by the “Somali community”, and attacked criticism of the migrant group as “hate”, saying, “We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors, Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society.”
She then insisted that she would continue working to “empower” the migrants, snapping, “We will use every attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available, to empower and work alongside our community members who are already doing so much good in the world and setting the example for the rest of the country.”
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As could be expected, she got totally roasted for the comments online. For example, commenting on one post about the speech, conservative X personality Tom Elliot quoted Samuel Adams, writing, “’It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin’d to destroy the people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.’ — Samuel Adams”
Other commenters on the same post mocked Mayor Wu’s claims by writing things like “Yes my family often spoke of their bravery alongside my ancestors at Bunker Hill” and “Hi @MayorWu, there were zero Somalians at the Boston Tea Party. You seem to be smart enough to know this. Not sure who taught you this behavior is acceptable. It’s not.”
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