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Sorry, Republicans. You can't call out Northam for racism and give Trump a pass.
Perspective: Sorry, Republicans. You cant call out Northam for racism and give Trump a pass.
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Sorry, Republicans. You cant call out Northam for racism and give Trump a pass.
Thats hypocrisy, full stop.
By Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols is a professor at the Harvard Extension School. He is the author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters.
February 2 at 11:00 PM
Finally, the GOP is calling out a chief executive for his appalling insensitivity on an issue of race: Saturday, via Twitter, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) decried that chief executives past racist behavior and said He should resign. In two tweets posted on Saturday, Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel listed off what she sees as that same chief executives callousness on race, including, apparently, his appearance in a photo, 35 years ago in which one person is in blackface and the other is wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. The conduct that these Republicans denounced clearly deserves condemnation, no matter how or when it occurred.
Unfortunately, theyve reserved their scorn for one chief executive, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, and have held back when it comes to criticizing a chief executive from their own party, President Trump, for his racially divisive statements and public positions. That is naked hypocrisy.
Northam, without doubt, brought this criticism on himself: Friday he released a statement apologizing for appearing in a 1984 medical school yearbook photo in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive, saying, I am deeply sorry for the decision I made. Then on Saturday, he went before live cameras to say, I believe then, and now, that I am not either of the people in the photo in question. A risible, flimsy explanation, unacceptable for anyone, let alone the governor of a state.
Republicans, sensing a relatively rare moment when, for once, the other party had to own a race-relations debacle, joined Democrats in calling for Northams ouster. In addition to McCarthy and McDaniel, Virginia GOP chair Jack Wilson called on Northam to step down, saying the governor has lost the moral ability to lead. Ever since Election Day 2016, when Trumps supporters promised he wouldnt be as awful as his critics including me warned he would be, Republicans have longed for a moment when they could at least pretend to gain the high moral ground.
But while Democrats, and decent people everywhere, have a right to demand that Northam step down, Republicans who continue to support a party dominated by Trump cant be taken seriously on this point.
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Tom Nichols is a professor at the Harvard Extension School. He is the author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. Follow https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom
Sorry, Republicans. You cant call out Northam for racism and give Trump a pass.
Thats hypocrisy, full stop.
By Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols is a professor at the Harvard Extension School. He is the author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters.
February 2 at 11:00 PM
Finally, the GOP is calling out a chief executive for his appalling insensitivity on an issue of race: Saturday, via Twitter, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) decried that chief executives past racist behavior and said He should resign. In two tweets posted on Saturday, Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel listed off what she sees as that same chief executives callousness on race, including, apparently, his appearance in a photo, 35 years ago in which one person is in blackface and the other is wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood. The conduct that these Republicans denounced clearly deserves condemnation, no matter how or when it occurred.
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Unfortunately, theyve reserved their scorn for one chief executive, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, and have held back when it comes to criticizing a chief executive from their own party, President Trump, for his racially divisive statements and public positions. That is naked hypocrisy.
Northam, without doubt, brought this criticism on himself: Friday he released a statement apologizing for appearing in a 1984 medical school yearbook photo in a costume that is clearly racist and offensive, saying, I am deeply sorry for the decision I made. Then on Saturday, he went before live cameras to say, I believe then, and now, that I am not either of the people in the photo in question. A risible, flimsy explanation, unacceptable for anyone, let alone the governor of a state.
Republicans, sensing a relatively rare moment when, for once, the other party had to own a race-relations debacle, joined Democrats in calling for Northams ouster. In addition to McCarthy and McDaniel, Virginia GOP chair Jack Wilson called on Northam to step down, saying the governor has lost the moral ability to lead. Ever since Election Day 2016, when Trumps supporters promised he wouldnt be as awful as his critics including me warned he would be, Republicans have longed for a moment when they could at least pretend to gain the high moral ground.
But while Democrats, and decent people everywhere, have a right to demand that Northam step down, Republicans who continue to support a party dominated by Trump cant be taken seriously on this point.
....
Tom Nichols is a professor at the Harvard Extension School. He is the author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. Follow https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom
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Sorry, Republicans. You can't call out Northam for racism and give Trump a pass. (Original Post)
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Feb 2019
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,105 posts)1. It is a prerequisite to be a republican...you must be a racist.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)2. Hypocrisy...standard fare from republicans.
Don't they ever get tired of talking out of both sides of their mouth? Sigh...it's so blatantly obvious now.
John Fante
(3,479 posts)3. The replies were predictably brutal. Ronald McDonald should STFU.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. Republicans just don't give a shit.
world wide wally
(21,734 posts)5. And then there is Steve King of Iowa.