Babylon town employee Andrew Vita was suspended over what he said about a Muslim in a Facebook post.
Watch below:
A Town of Babylon employee faces disciplinary action after he posted profane hate speech on a Facebook post highlighting the accomplishments of the Lindenhurst High School Class of 2017 salutatorian.
The Lindenhurst School District posted a video (watch it at the bottom of this story) on Facebook Thursday morning featuring salutatorian Yasmin Zohny along with co-valedictorians Sofiya Yanyak and Ziad Sabry. The video was shared to a local Facebook group in the afternoon. A few minutes later, Andrew Vita posted two comments under the video. Both directed vile hate speech toward Zohny, who is Muslim.
Here’s what he said:
Wow. It’s odd that he used a curse word that he then self-censored twice, but whatever.
Here’s the video he commented on – his comment was deleted very quickly.
I have no problem with the suspension. Whatever your religious beliefs are, we have to treat other Americans with dignity and respect. This is exactly the kind of hate speech we’re all decrying when Dems use against us. Let’s not be hypocritical. In my experience, people who make such statements aren’t terribly principled about their hatred – it bleeds into other demographics…