Some people can’t handle the truth.
Via WISTV:
The mayor of Irmo, SC has garnered the attention of a national publication because of personal social media accounts that many are considering anti-Muslim.
Irmo Mayor Hardy King shared a post on June 4 that from a Facebook group called “America’s Veterans are Loved” entitled “PERSPECTIVE.” The post lists a number of global terrorist attacks and how the suspects were Muslim.
But when he responded Thursday to the attention of his posts he’s going to “keep on trucking” and that he’s not ashamed of the truth he’s posted.
“I don’t think anything I posted is false, I don’t think it’s inaccurate,” King said. “If somebody wants to correct any of that stuff and send me a text or post it to my Facebook page that it’s incorrect and not factual, then that’s fine, we can debate that. But the truth is what truth is and if people don’t like it, they don’t like it.”
King says despite the backlash from some, he’s garnered a lot of support from Irmo residents. He also mentioned that he deleted posts from people that were “ridiculous and ignorant and asinine” but his posts remain visible.
“I am not concerned about the slack from a lot of people that I don’t know and don’t know me,” King continued. “Evidently, people don’t have a life and love to get on social media and troll and drool over stuff and get excited. But for the rest of us that have a life and have a living, we keep on trucking, we keep on moving, we keep on doing what we do. I am not ashamed of anything I put on there [Facebook] it’s the truth if they don’t like it, I’m sorry. I get offended by a lot of stuff liberals say, but I don’t break down and cry about it.”
The posts were made on the mayor’s personal Facebook page that includes other conservative-leaning posts. The June 4 post no longer appears on his page.
“There’s a lot of people who walk around with their panties up there…and they get hurt over anything. To those people, I’m sorry, I don’t care,” King said. “To most people who are intelligent, if [the] truth hurts, I can’t help that either. I don’t think it was offensive. It might be offensive to a terrorist. It might be offensive to an illegal immigrant, or alien, or whatever. So be it. Get offended, get over it, grow up, you know? That’s all I can say.”