I have noticed over the years that when people accuse
someone else of something, the accusation often says more about the accuser
than the accused. In particular, it
never occurs to people to accuse someone of something they themselves have
never thought of doing . So people tend to accuse others of things that are
already on their mind.
Recall, for example, the rabid Clinton supporters who
worried publicly during the 2016 campaign that Trump might not accept losing
the election and would work to subvert the new president. These seem to be the same
people who, when in fact Trump won the election, were themselves unable to
accept the fact that Clinton lost, and are still working to subvert Trump.
So what about the current fuss about Trump’s admonition to
the four female House members that if they don’t like the United States they
should leave it and go back to their countries of origin? Was that really racist,
as so many claim? It was certainly rude and aggressive, but in
fact no ruder or more aggressive than things that these four have said recently
about Trump.
It seems to me that in making this claim that Trump is racist
they may be exposing the fact that they themselves are racist. For example,
they all seem to support Senator Cory Booker’s proposal to pay
reparations to African Americans whose ancestors were exploited as slaves. Not
to the descendants of Asian Chinese immigrants who were exploited in the 1800’s
to build the railroads. Not to the descendants of white Irish men who were
exploited to build the nation’s canals. Not to the descendants of Eastern Europeans who were exploited in sweatshops in New York and San Francisco. But only to those of the African race –
in other words only to those of a particular race. Isn’t that blatant racism? (And by the way,. most of us have ancestors somewhere in the past who were exploited by someone)
Or what about the persistent liberal attack on
“white privilege”. Not “privilege” itself,
WHITE privilege. That sure sounds like a racially-tinged statement to me.
I certainly wish Trump would censor his
Twitter posts and behave in a manner more suitable to his office, but I think
the charge of “racism” is being overused. In fact I notice that just about
anyone who disagrees with the far left agenda these days gets automatically
labeled as racist , which suggest to me that the far left is itself far more
racist than they would like to admit, or perhaps than they even realize.
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