The attendee who pressed Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a tense town hall this weekend was exposed as a former GOP staffer with “Christian nationalist ties,” journalist Marisa Kabas reported.Saturday in Caro, Michigan, an attendee who identified himself...

The attendee who pressed Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to disavow the Muslim Brotherhood at a tense town hall this weekend was exposed as a former GOP staffer with “Christian nationalist ties,” journalist Marisa Kabas reported.

As first reported by Kabas on her Substack The Handbasket, Tommy was actually Thomas Teepell, who previously served as operations director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) until February of this year.

Teepell’s father is Timmy Teepell, a GOP strategist who worked for former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal through his climb from congressman to governor. Jindal is the founder of America Next, a conservative PAC that, according to The Michigan Daily, offered Republican college students $200 to travel to an El-Sayed event to “heckle” the Democratic candidate and ask provocative questions.

  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    about the evolution of English but I will go to my grave bristling at this usage. Luckily for all y’all,

    wtf is all y’all?

    • hakase@lemmy.zip
      3·
      1 day ago

      “All y’all” is actually a really interesting linguistic object. It draws a grammaticalized contrast between a 2nd person plural exclusive and a 2nd person plural inclusive, which isn’t really a thing in English elsewhere, even back in Old English when it had more complex morphology.

      That is to say, “y’all” is a second person plural, and it basically means “you guys”, or “y’inz” if you’re from that part of Pennsylvania. It picks out a specific group of people that you’re talking directly to.

      But, what if I’m talking to a crowd, and I want to draw a distinction between some people among them that I’ve already addressed, versus the group in its entirety, which I would now like to address?

      This is where “all y’all” comes in. It essentially specifies that everyone is being addressed, and not just a specific subset of that group.

      So you’ll get examples like “Y’all (usually with a pointing motion) need to rethink your design, but all y’all need to listen better”.

      @fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world likely intended “all y’all” to have a specifically inclusive meaning here for a few different types of groups that could be distinguished among the readers of their comment. Basically, “not just y’all (the linguists in the group who are irked by their prescriptiveness), but all y’all (everyone else as well, including those who aren’t irked), are lucky that they have one foot in the grave”.

      “All y’all” was necessary here because if they’d just said “y’all” it could easily have been misinterpreted as just the educated linguists being lucky, and they wanted to emphasize that their comment wasn’t being snide toward educated people, but rather self-deprecating. “All y’all” accomplishes that perfectly (for those who have it in their grammars).

      “All y’all” is one of my favorite constructions in (dialectal) English, though it is hilariously ironic, and kinda demonstrative of my general point, to see such a non-standard feature in a comment arguing in favor of prescriptive grammar rules!

      (Also, if you think “all y’all” is weird, wait 'til you see singular y’all!)