No Double Standard Here…Move Along
When Rep. Kanjorski (D-PA) made his recent comments about how a program he was supporting wasn’t for “minorities” or “defectives”, my reaction was “queue the silence”. Sure enough, there’s been a whole lot of nothing made of it.
So, I’m just going to make a simple observation. Isn’t it amazing how you can say some remarkably offensive things and if you have a D after your name, it’s treated as an aberration?
For example, if you’re a former Klansman, you can drop the N-word. Or, you could brag about your state being a slave state, make a crack about Indian accents at 7-11s or talk about your future boss as being clean and articulate, and still end up as Vice President. You could also refer to a certain future President as being “light skinned” and lacking “a negro dialect” and still be the Senate Majority Leader. You could even end up on the Supreme Court after saying that hispanic woman would read better judicial decisions because she’s a hispanic woman.
On the other hand if you are wearing with the scarlet letter, R, and you said anything similar you’d be toast. And then we’d be reading about how all Republicans are knuckle-dragging racists.
But the legacy media’s honest, on the case and trustworthy, of course. Riiiiight.