In Worcester, Massachusetts where that great work, Webster’s Dictionary, 2nd edition, was produced, a “non-binary” Vietnamese-American has just now nailed her colors to the mast of antisemitism, a pathological condition that often presents as hatred for Israel. No doubt that belief helps make her a real American, just like Henry Ford and John J. McCloy and George Lincoln Rockwell, and akin to all those students on campuses from sea to shining sea who scream their desire to see Israel disappear, to be replaced by a 23rd Arab state.
Thu Nguyen – “They” — describes themselves (don’t worry, I won’t keep up this pronoun absurdity) in her campaign literature as “a proud Vietnamese refugee, an artist, an auntie, a youth worker, and the first non-binary candidate for Worcester City Council At-Large.” She came to America “at the age of one when her family immigrated to the United States as refugees. Thu grew up in Main South and graduated from Claremont Academy and Clark University.”
Nguyen has said she “wants to be a part of starting to build a safer and stronger city through diversity and inclusion.” Of course. Why didn’t her opponent think of that? Diversity and Inclusion. And Equity. Let’s not forget Equity. What a splendid idea. How original, how deeply wise, and yet how simple withal.
More on this bizarre non-binary bigot and her want of sympathy for the hostages just rescued from the terror group Hamas can be found here: “Massachusetts Politician Slams ‘The Zionist and Genocide Loving People,’ Expresses Outrage Over Israeli Rescue Op,” by Jacob Frankel, Algemeiner, June 11, 2024:
While many people celebrated the rescue of four Israeli hostages from Hamas-ruled Gaza over the weekend, a member of the Worcester City Council in Massachusetts appeared to express outrage over the operation.
Councilor-at-Large Thu Nguyen — a self-described Vietnamese refugee and “the first non binary elected official in Massachusetts” — is pictured on the Worcester City Council’s website and their social media accounts wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional headscarf worn by Palestinians that has become known as a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian cause and opposition to Israel.
Nguyen took to Instagram to share two posts on Nguyen’s Instagram page. The first post falsely accused Israeli forces of killing “hundreds of refugees” as they rescued the four hostages on Saturday. The post did not mention that the hostages were being held by civilians cooperating with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. The Hamas-controlled health ministry claimed that 274 Palestinians were killed during the operation, although experts have questioned the reliability of casualty figures from Gaza. Israel said the casualties from the raid were “less than 100.”
Hamas has a long record of exaggerating the numbers of “innocent civilians” killed by the IDF. There was the “massacre in Jenin,” where original claims of “500 civilians massacred” ended up being reduced to 52 dead, 45 of whom turned out to be Hamas members. And there was the supposed killing of “500 civilians” in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. It turned out that there had been no Israeli airstrike, but rather, a rocket launched toward Israel by Palestinian Islamic Jihad misfired, and landed in Gaza, not on the Al-Ahli hospital, but in a parking lot next to the hospital, killing not “500 people,” but about “50 people.” How many of those were “innocent civilians” is not known.
Thu Nguyen accuses Israel of killing “hundreds of refugees.” What “refugees”? The people living in Gaza are not refugees. And where does this figure of “hundreds” killed come from? It comes from Hamas, that first claimed 70 “civilians” had been killed by the IDF during the hostage rescue, then upped that number to 110, then to 210, and 240, before finally settling on the positively phantasmagoric figure of 274. The IDF says there were fewer than 100 Gazans killed. Israel has as long a record of telling the truth as Hamas does of telling lies. I believe the IDF’s figure. And of those fewer than 100 killed, how many were members of Hamas, killed in a terrific firefight with the IDF rescuers?
The second post shared by Nguyen promoted the myth of widespread sexual assault of Palestinian “men and boys” in Israeli prisons and referred to those in Israeli prisons — many of whom are there for terrorism-related offenses — as “our friends.”…
Thu Nguyen apparently wants us to believe the charge that Israeli guards sexually assault the Palestinian “men and boys” in Israel’s prisons. This charge is so preposterous that not even Ken Roth or Francesca Albanese has dared to make it. But apparently Thu Nguyen finds it believable.
What is next for this rebarbative creature? She no doubt hopes to rise higher, and to become the first non-binary Congresswomyn, representing the 2nd Congressional district of Massachusetts, and a member — that’s glory for you — of the Squad.
Wellington says
Proving again that Leftism is a mental disease and that anyone seriously using terms like “non-binary,” “gender-fluid” and “gender identity” should never be taken seriously. Sadly, even many medical institutions like those found at Penn and Harvard actually do engage in an updated version of the emperor with his new clothes on by making, get this, a distinction between “gender” and “gender identity.” Yep, welcome again to the Age of Nonsense.
Huge numbers of those registered Democrat in the USA actually do use these terms seriously and earnestly (no conservative worth their salt would though they will be called haters for not doing so). So, conclude accordingly. I have, to wit, while there are many enemies of America, there is none greater or more powerful than the Democratic Party of this country. None. Not one.
And I would argue this as well: Nonsense and exculpation of evil very often go hand-in-hand, as demonstrated by this article at JW. And this “non-binary” fool in Worcester, MA, a city I know well, where the once sterling Holy Cross College exists but which has become nothing more than another “outpost” of rank Leftism (what other kind is there?) and where the Democratic Party is the “front man” for the inexorable destruction of America from within.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Wellington
I recall the late Rush Limbaugh once saying that one way to make America competitive would be to export Liberalism (this was before the term “woke” supplanted it) worldwide. While other dreams of Rush may or may not have materialized, this one definitely has. Not only has wokeism infected the entire Western world – it’s even made inroads into the third world countries in Africa and Asia. It’s progress has been somewhat slower in non-English speaking countries, since the English language is a major vector for this gender insanity, as Matt Walsh demonstrated in his conversations w/ the Masai in Kenya
One major distinction b/w the Left and the Right is that the Left is a globalist force, unified by a common vision of world governance, whereas the Right is a disparate group of localized forces worldwide, but w/ unique visions in each case. The Left doesn’t want any outpost of the Right in the world to exist, b’cos that would be a magnet for dissenters to migrate to, and demonstrate their fallacies, which they don’t want. Just like Democrats want every state in the US to be governed from DC so that people can’t do what they did & flee from California to Texas or from New York to Florida, similarly, on a world level, Leftists wouldn’t want people to flee from, say, Canada to New Zealand or from Australia to the US. That’s what’s driving it
There is a low level discussion on whether different Right wing forces worldwide can or should unite at least for the purposes of confronting the Left, even if they consciously refuse to create a common global vision for themselves
Wellington says
Thanks for your comment, Infidel, insightful as usual.
FYI says
I was doing an online course in Astronomy during the coof “pandemic”:Some people liked to reveal there personal pronouns.So on that basis i must say that i wish to be considered as Trinary{I’ll try anything}Watashi{when i am feeling Japanese}.I would like to be known as Gaius Marcellus Spurius,legatus of the XXX legion and ..Dr Aziz Azwas,professor of koranic Astronomy and islamic “science” of the Zakir Naik institute for islamic studies.
gravenimage says
🙂
Raymond Bullock says
I served in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and found the Vietnamese people to be intelligent, industrious, and religious. Wonder what happened to Thu? Obviously, she did not experience living under Communists because she came to a supposedly “better place” where there is real personal freedom and not interrogation and brainwashing by the regime. Yet, she seems to have been open to similar brain-washing from the American Communists/Socialists/hedonists and this gave her free rein to become whatever she wanted to be in life. She has chosen the worse part, the very opposite of the American Dream. She now has a Communist/Socialist/hedonist mindset she would have had in Vietnam except she acquired it in a Leftist hotbed in, of all places Worcester, Massachusetts where I worked for several years. It is a working-class city, yet she managed to find the Woke people to indoctrinate her. This is an American Tragedy.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just like it would be a mistake to look at Sam Brinton and conclude that most Americans are like it, it would be a similar mistake to look at Thu Nguyen and conclude that most Vietnamese are like it. Just b’cos one doesn’t otherwise normally run into Vietnamese people
gravenimage says
Agreed, Infidel. There are many decent, smart, hardworking Vietnamese Americans here–few are like this idiot.
carpediadem says
I was a Vietnamese general – General Yiap – who gave Yasser Arafat the idea of marketing the Palestinians as a “human rights movement”.
carpediadem says
It was a Vietnamese general – General Yiap – who gave Yasser Arafat the idea of marketing the Palestinians as a “human rights movement”.
gravenimage says
Interesting, Carpediadem–I was not familiar with this, and need to research it. Can’t say it surprises, though–Communists and Jihadists of course both sneer at the concept of human rights, but know that it is useful to make such claims when dealing with well-meaning, credulous Westerners.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Hugh
You missed the memo. When a singular person of “whatever” gender describes itself as “they”, then the term it uses to describe itself is a newly invented word – “themself“. That is the singular version of “themselves”. In fact, I recall watching a video of a senate hearing where Senator Tom Cotton was confronting a US military officer for using this very word “themself” in the manual, instead of “himself/herself”
Similarly, if “they/them/their” is allowed to be singular, they’d have to change the grammatical usage to distinguish b/w a singular “they” and a plural “they”. Like “they are” if one is talking about more than one person, and “they is” if one is talking about a person who has picked its pronoun as “they”
Incidentally, as someone once noted on Mark Steyn’s show, why do they even need to bother about all these third person pronouns? When one person talks to another, all one uses is “I” or “You” or “We”. Why should anyone care about what they say about any third person?
Rarely says
The bastardization of the English language by the misuse of pronouns has made everyday communication very confusing. Is this ridiculous attempt to cater to every imaginable life style or self view really a good idea? “Actresses” don’t even exist anymore — whatever sex (or variation thereof) they are all “actors),
I couldn’t care less what a person’s (perdaughter?) sexual preferences are as long as they aren’t harming someone else. Similarly I have no interest (zero, zilch, nil) if someone views themselves as binary, alien, Korean or whatever. ITS NONE OF MY BUSINESS and I DON’T CARE.
James Lincoln says
Rarely says,
“Similarly I have no interest (zero, zilch, nil) if someone views themselves as binary, alien, Korean or whatever. ITS NONE OF MY BUSINESS and I DON’T CARE.”
Fair enough, but that is not the problem.
The problem is that they want you to AFFIRM, say, their gender-fluid delusions – or you’ll be guilty of a “micro-aggression”.
libertyORdeath says
True, but the real heart of the matter is what they are doing to CHILDREN.
JS says
Why not just say “Hello” or “Hey You?” Or perhaps a ticket to any of the 57 nations that are Islamic. Or how about having “them” visit some survivors of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre. For anyone who has forgotten, that is was the gay club in Orlando Florida where a Muslim man shot up and killed about 150 people and injured end many more.
Wellington says
Indeed, James. The Left has moved from asking for tolerance to demanding, as you noted, affirmation and which is all so very totalitarian—and why Rarely has missed the mark yet again.
James Lincoln says
libertyORdeath,
100% agree.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I still use the term “actress” to refer to any female actor. Also, in cricket, they’ve started using the word “batter” to describe what was previously described as a batsman, to allow for gender fluidity, but I refuse to play along. In my book, batter is a role in baseball, not cricket, and just as a pitcher is very different from a bowler, a batter is very different from a batsman
Also, as others have pointed out, you may not care how someone views itself, but it’s that person who will insist that you embrace their imaginary world. Essentially, they want endorsement, not tolerance. Also, when you talk to someone, you rarely use the third person in referring to that person: it’s always “I” or “you”. So why would that person be so interested in you knowing the pronouns?
SC says
Wonder how the Viet Cong would have dealt with it. They weren’t great in their tolerance of ‘different’.
Mike says
Mr. Fitzgerald: WHO are YOU to say that DIM-TWIT Thu Nguyen has a NON- BANH-MI BIG-GUT?!!
For one thing, while Banh-Mi sandwiches are tasty, there are people (including some Vietnamese people) who prefer Subway sandwiches, or Quiznos sandwiches, or Po’ Boy sandwiches, or club sandwiches, or Reuben sandwiches!
Second, Banh Mi sandwiches are NOT the be-all and end-all of Vietnamese cuisine! There are also dishes such as Pho noodle soup, Vietnamese-style fried rice, dim sum, shabu-shabu and spring rolls (both deep-fried and non-deep-fried), and French-inspired escargots and frogs’ legs!
There is even dog meat soup similar to ones in China and Korea, but of course that is banned in most Western countries, and it’s becoming less popular in Vietnam with increased pet ownership.
If Thu Nguyen seems a bit corpulent, it is more likely due to a rather sedentary lifestyle (quite common in the U.S.), rather than to any negative qualities of Vietnamese food. Nguyen’s diet has likely become mostly Americanized as well.
As I have said to Mr. Spencer, who is what Spanish-speakers might refer to as a “sabelotodo,” YOU need to refrain from criticizing what OTHER cultures eat, and criticize your OWN! Mmmkay?!
(Sincerely, Jack In The Box Allan!l)
gravenimage says
Sarcasm–very funny!
Ralph says
In our present, stressful time, it is exquisitely delicious comments on this website that make life bearable, even interesting. Thanks to all who have posted.
OLD GUY says
Just another idiot looking for their moment in the sun.
somehistory says
Did her parents consider themselves *rescued* when they left Viet Nam for the U.S?
How many citizens of Viet Nam were killed during the war…first with the French, and then the U.S.?
When Saigon “fell” and thousands were attempting to flee on the few planes leaving, did those who managed to get onboard then condemn the pilots for taking off and leaving other frightened people on the ground, perhaps to die?
This idiot is just like so many other idiots….getting on the train they think will take them to someplace where they can be important and get paid a lot for having gained power over others.
libertyORdeath says
Comparing Marxist degenerates like this to Henry Ford and George Lincoln Rockwell is an insult.
Say what you will about these two great men and their criticism of the Jewish people, but they are nothing like the terrorist scum and their communist lapdogs currently attacking Israel.
There is a GREAT chance that the ACTUAL Nazis would not have been defeated without the industrial might that Henry Ford lent the US during the war. Similarly, we may not have defeated fascism in Europe or imperialism in Japan without the heroic deeds of soldiers like Mr. Rockwell.
Comparing these two HEROES to the dregs of society shouting “Free ‘Palestine’ and setting themselves on FIRE is like comparing Washington or Robert E. Lee to Ghengis Khan. It’s nothing more than a cheap propaganda trick to fool our lower-IQ citizens.
We MUST Make the distinction between honest criticism and true Jew-hatred if we hope to Defeat our real enemies. There are countless patriots who have real concerns about foreign funding and interference in our government. The issue of dual loyalty amongst dual citizens is not a spurious one.
Bashing our own people with the same “phobic” and “racist” labels that the left uses only serves to validate their slander. It is exceedingly possible to despise and oppose TERRORISM and communism while holding critical views of Israel or Jews. To truly enact an America First policy we must examine ALL of our relations with foreign governments and peoples. This includes Israel as much as it does the UK or Turkey. It’s not Jew-hatred, but patriotism that motivates most of the animus toward Israel amongst conservatives.
The only way to deal with honest criticism is through honest debate, not cancel culture and leftist smear tactics.
gravenimage says
There are many things I respect about Henry Ford–his unhinged antisemitism is not one of them.
And George Lincoln Rockwell–the founder of the American Nazi Party–had even less escuse than did Ford, because he founded this party *after* Hitler and the Nazis and the horrors of the Holocaust–he could not claim tha he didn’t know where Fasism would lead.
He was a Holocaust denier–how is this “honest and true”?
Besides being an antisemite he was a virulent racist–but he admired Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X for their preaching of black separatism.
gravenimage says
Introducing Non-Binary Nitwit Thu Nguyen
…………………………………………
Does it matter that pious Muslims, including Hamas, would toss this foolish person off the nearest tall building? I’m sure not…
“‘Queer in Gaza’ campaign aims to raise awareness about Hamas LGBTQ+ persecution”
“Living as a Queer person in Gaza is punishable by torture and death by Hamas, the rulers of Gaza” the campaign notes.
“There is no transgender population in Gaza because any trans person who lives openly will be hunted down by Hamas.”
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-790635