As federal officials prepare for US President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, Pompeo took to social media Tuesday morning to declare that "woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is."
"They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker," he argued. "Censorship, wokness, political correctness, it all points in one direction - authoritarianism, cloaked as moral righteousness."
Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker. pic.twitter.com/Mu97xCgxfS
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) January 19, 2021
Many US-based netizens were perplexed and insulted by Pompeo's statement due to the fact that the US has long been referred to as a cultural "melting pot."
I guess we are no longer the great melting pot? https://t.co/WE2lJt5PsR
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 19, 2021
This account locks tomorrow so now Pompeo's just trolling the world one last time for kicks & attention https://t.co/yzjcWQdime
— Morgan Artyukhina (@LavenderNRed) January 19, 2021
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— Racism Watchdog ☃️ (@RacismDog) January 19, 2021
Mike Pompeo represents the absolute worst of America. He is a national embarrassment.
— THE ACCOUNTANT (@LinkedHD) January 19, 2021
When I made this point with @RaniaKhalek, soft-imperialist fake "leftists" attacked us, but Pompeo's gloating shows we were right:
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 20, 2021
BRICS was a counterbalance (despite flaws) against US-NATO hegemony, before fascists Bolsonaro & Modi helped USA sabotage ithttps://t.co/PlfsrF4sdr
Lawmakers such as the outspoken Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) highlighted that the secretary of state recently thumbed his nose at international law when he visited the Golan Heights in November 2020.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Golan Heights settlement in Israel. pic.twitter.com/XjtaBP8B2P
— The Hill (@thehill) November 19, 2020
Referring to the outgoing secretary as a "monster," Omar used her thread to highlight Pompeo's hand in Iran sanctions and closer relations with Saudi Arabia.
Pompeo lobbied for and imposed crippling sanctions on the Iranian people—depriving them of much-needed medical supplies during a pandemic and killing thousands.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 19, 2021
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova referred to the US secretary's move as "another manifestation of the United States' blatantly disdainful attitude to the globally recognised international legal principles of the Mideastern settlement."
In addition to his questionable comments on multiculturalism and the like, Pompeo also declared that, after a "careful examination of the available facts," China's policies in the western Xinjiang region amount to “crimes against humanity," according to the Associated Press.
“After careful examination of the available facts, I have determined that since at least March 2017, the People’s Republic of China, under the direction and control of the Chinese Communist Party, has committed crimes against humanity against the predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and other members of ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang. I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state,” he said in a statement.
The new designation allows the state department to carry out new measures against Beijing at a swifter rate.
Grant Shubin of the Global Justice Center told the Associated Press that he views the last-minute Trump administration designation as a starting point that should be followed by "decisive action."
