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Even lawmakers have to deal with men who refuse to listen to them.

On Monday, the Minnesota state House of Representatives passed a public safety budget bill. Rep. Ilhan Omar (who made history in November as the first Somali-American lawmaker in the U.S.) took the floor to argue that the bill, which includes a penalty hike on protesters, would have stymied historic civil rights demonstrations, like Dr. Martin Luther King's.

But many of the members weren't listening. In fact, they weren't even in the chamber — they were relaxing in the House's retiring room. So the state's House Democratic party leader, Melissa Hortman, called for all members to come back to their desks to hear their colleague speak. She had had enough of their bullshit and she let it be known. "I hate to break up the 100 percent white male card game in the retiring room, but I think this is an important debate."

A few of those white males took offense at Hortman's realness. One, Republican Rep. Bob Dettmer, took the floor to air his grievances. "I'm a white male," he said. "I respect everybody. But I really believe the comments that were made by the minority leader were really not appropriate."

He continued, addressing Hortman: "Minority leader, would you apologize to the body?"

He did not get an apology, exactly, so much as a #SorryNotSorry. From Hortman:

Representative Dettmer, I'm glad you asked me to yield. I have no intention of apologizing. I am so tired of watching Rep. Susan Allen give an amazing speech, Rep. Peggy Flanagan give an amazing speech, watching Rep. Jamie Becker-Finn give an amazing speech, Rep. Rena Moran give the most heartfelt, incredible speech I've heard on this House floor, as long as I can remember, watching Rep. Ilhan Omar give an amazing speech ... and looking around, to see, where are my colleagues? And I went in the retiring room and I saw where a bunch of my colleagues were. And I'm really tired of watching women of color, in particular, being ignored. So, I'm not sorry.

BOOM.

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Rebecca Nelson Rebecca Nelson is a magazine writer in New York.

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