Patrick Wyman praises El-Sayed's willingness to make hostile questioners admit their premises
Patrick WymanHistorian and commentator
Wyman praises El-Sayed for engaging with a hostile questioner until the premises behind the hostility are admitted, and says that makes the underlying bigotry impossible to avoid.
“One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry.”
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Abdul El-Sayed challenges a Muslim Brotherhood question at his Caro town hall
At a Caro town hall, an attendee asked Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed answered affirmatively, then challenged the assumption behind the question. Byron York calls the question reasonable and argues that the ensuing response diverted legitimate scrutiny.
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Patrick Wyman's post comments on the town-hall disavowal question and its premise. Wyman quotes El-Sayed's original post of the Caro exchange.
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Wyman's Bluesky post quotes El-Sayed's post of the Caro exchange.
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The post continues: "You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it."
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Wyman calls the hostility behind the question bigotry while praising El-Sayed for forcing the questioner to confront it.
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Read the full caseDmitri Bolt defends asking El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood
“there are straightforward reasons to ask the question, and “because he’s Muslim” isn’t one of them.”Read statement
Byron York calls the Brotherhood question reasonable
“It was a reasonable question.”Read statement
Marisa Kabas criticizes the premise of the Muslim Brotherhood question
“Then, on October 17th, Tommy asked his question in Caro, implying that El-Sayed had to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood simply because he’s a Muslim. Without knowing Tommy’s background and the effort by America Next to stoke controversy around El-Sayed’s public town halls, this might have seemed like an honest question, asked in good faith. Instead, it quickly appeared to be an inorganic attempt to generate negative publicity for El-Sayed.”Read statement
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