“Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) kicked off Thursday’s House hearing on violence and discrimination against Asian-Americans by railing against the Chinese Communist Party and extolling lynchings, saying he takes ‘justice very seriously.’ The House Judiciary Committee hearing, which was originally scheduled to address the marked increase in anti-Asian hate crimes and violence in recent months, took on added urgency after a 21-year-old white man went on a murderous rampage on Tuesday that left eight dead, including six Asian women” The Daily Beast reports.
“In his opening statement, Roy first acknowledged that the shootings were a tragedy and that the ‘victims of race-based violence and their families deserve justice.’ From there, however, the Texas lawmaker immediately criticized the very nature of the hearing while deploying some whataboutist logic. ‘The case we are talking about here the tragedy we just saw occur in Atlanta, Georgia,’ Roy declared. ‘I would also suggest that the victims of cartels moving illegal aliens deserve justice. The American citizens in south Texas, they are getting absolutely decimated by what’s happening at the southern border deserve justice.’ The conservative congressman continued: ‘The victims of rioting and looting in the street… last summer deserve justice. We believe in justice.'”