Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sparked outrage for using the N-word in a hypocritical message about George Floyd’s death.
“The killing of #GeorgeFloyd was deeply disturbing & upsetting & is the result of the current world order which we all must unite against,” the controversial hardliner tweeted Friday, along with a screenshot of the now-viral knee-on-the-neck death in Minnesota
“‘Pull the trigger kill a N—a he’s a hero'” he wrote, using the racist slur unedited in quoting from Tupac Shakur’s 1998 song “Changes.”
While the reference was to a tune addressing police brutality, his nonchalant use of the offensive term soon sparked outrage in the Twitterverse.
“You gave an Islamic fundamentalist, who was part of a cruel dictatorship the N-word pass?” one person replied, suggesting it would be more worthy for someone who “didn’t do any crimes against humanity.”
Most, however, attacked the hypocrisy of the Holocaust denier ignoring his own horrific human rights record so that he could attack American cops.
“Said the sociopathic murderer,” wrote author Christina Sommers in reply, while many posted photos of some of the horrific crimes Ahmadinejad was accused of as Iranian leader from 2005 until 2013.
“What was that? Sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the screams of all the Iranian citizens you’ve murdered,” @randeez72 replied.
Ahmadinejad is no stranger to making hateful comments. He has in the past claimed that the Holocaust never happened, called on the world to “eliminate the Zionist regime,” and has even claimed that the terror attacks of 9/11 were executed by the US government.