The billboard, which calls Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “idiots,” is signed “the Deplorables,” in reference to Hillary Clinton’s offhand name for the supporters of Donald Trump
Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images A gun store in North Carolina has erected a violent billboard depicting the four congresswomen nicknamed “the Squad” — Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — as the “4 Horsemen,” implying that they are bringing on the biblical apocalypse. The board also calls them “idiots” above advertising for the gun store’s location at the bottom of the image.
The congresswomen and their supporters have condemned the ad as deliberately inciting violence against four minority politicians. It comes after Trump was widely castigated for his comments that these women should “go back to where they came from.” Omar and Tlaib in particular, as the first Muslim women in Congress, have been subject to violent, Islamophobic harassment since they took office in January.
On Monday, the gun shop was disturbingly defiant about the billboard, and released a bigoted, flippant message on Facebook. It advertised that it would be selling bumper stickers of the “four horsemen” image, and that customers must also “eat a piece of bacon” and “tell us you’re voting for Trump in 2020.” The reference to bacon is an Islamophobic taunt.
An employee known only as “Butch” told local news that the ad was not racist, per HuffPost, but that they were “putting facing the face of socialism out there so the American people can get a good look at it.” Anti-gun violence activists, Muslim organizations, and others have said the billboard blatantly incites violence by depicting the faces of the congresswomen above directions to the gun store. Pressley tagged Rep.
On Wednesday, the billboard company, Allison Outdoor Advertising, reportedly wrote in a since-deleted Facebook post that “the board is coming down,” but did not say when.
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