Friday, April 09, 2021

When a Racism Story Isn’t About Racism

When a Racism Story Isn’t About Racism
  • No crime victim ever felt happy because his mugger wasn’t a bigot.
"Last summer, Frederick Douglass Smith, a black Obama supporter, was accused of sexually harassing and then yelling racial slurs at an Asian woman at a Mexican restaurant.
Now the New York Times decided to blame this spectacular triumph of diversity on Trump.
After an introductory tweet blaming President Trump for all the attacks on Asians after the "president began calling the coronavirus the "Chinese virus", the Democrat paper featured the case of Smith whom it describes as using "derogatory racial slurs and misogynistic terms".
The Times understandably leaves out the slurs, not because it’s trying to spare the ears of its sensitive readers, but because what Smith allegedly said was, “I’m a contributor to the Obama administration you f***ing Asian c**t.”
Journalism is deader than chivalry so the mere fact that the paper’s second example of Trumpian hate consisted of a man named after a dead civil rights leader announcing his support for Obama before shouting an anti-Asian slur wouldn’t keep any Times editors up late at night...Read all.

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