GOP Appalled After Journalist Calls Them 'White Supremacists'

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Some of the annoying issues about fashionable white conservatives is the way in which they constantly use racist language, advocate for racist agendas, rejoice America’s racist historical past, and dehumanize ethnic teams in essentially the most manifestly racist methods doable — then they act so appalled and flabbergasted at any time when somebody calls them racist.

Take, for instance, a current episode of CNN’s Newsnight, throughout which journalist Cari Champion obtained into it with white conservative speaking heads who practically blew a gasket when Champion insisted that what fueled President Donald Trump’s 2024 marketing campaign “was by no means about eggs, it was about race.”

From Uncooked Story:

“It’s not about eggs, it’s about ensuring there may be white supremacy on this nation,” Champion mentioned. “And if we’re sincere, we’ll say that.”

That elicited verbal reactions from longtime GOP insider Scott Jennings and Rudy Guiliani’s lawyer Arthur Aidala. However Jennings was first to pounce after being challenged on what variety, fairness and inclusion, or DEI, really meant.

“I do need us to not get off the rails as a result of…” CNN host Abby Phillip jumped in to say.

“She simply mentioned we’re all white supremacists,” Jennings mentioned. “We’ve obtained to handle this don’t we?”

Moments later, Scott Jennings complained about how MAGA supporters have been handled.

“We’re handled to comparable feedback to what Cari made tonight about race, white supremacy, all of Trump’s ideology and other people and voters – it’s all about white supremacy – this was rejected within the election,” Jennings mentioned.

“Democrats ran…this was the animating factor of the Harris marketing campaign and it was rejected,” Jennings added.

Initially, Jennings is being disingenuous and annoying in the way in which he pretends Trump’s win proves the white supremacist GOP narrative was “rejected” by America. It was rejected by White America — the one racial demographic Republicans have been capable of persistently win a majority vote from within the final 50 years — largely as a result of Trump ran a marketing campaign of white nationalism and white grievance.

“In case you’re going to return out and name half the nation a white supremacist, you’ve obtained to elucidate it,” Jennings advised Champion.

Oh, phrase? As if MAGA Republicans don’t continuously make claims they don’t produce proof of not to mention “clarify” in any clear or complete method.

MAGA Republicans went to battle in opposition to Important Race Concept with out ever as soon as demonstrating that they knew actually something in regards to the decades-old tutorial framework, which they continuously declare teaches that white individuals are inherently racist, which it doesn’t. (Though, at this level, I’m not fully positive it shouldn’t.) Trump went on a years-long propaganda marketing campaign concerning fictional election interference within the 2020 presidential race and his get together obtained proper behind him although he by no means offered a shred of proof to assist it, and the truth that nearly each election official and choose he introduced instances earlier than advised him emphatically that there wasn’t true.

Trump has known as each Black prosecutor and authorized official to deliver instances in opposition to him racist with out even bothering to elucidate what any of them have mentioned or performed to be known as racist — and nobody within the MAGA world, together with Scott Jennings, ever as soon as challenged him to.

Hell, Republicans haven’t even supplied an in depth justification for his or her battle in opposition to variety, fairness and inclusion. They only preserve insisting that certified, able-bodied white males are being displaced within the workforce by unqualified Black individuals, ladies and disabled individuals. They’ve by no means as soon as supplied unambiguous proof that DEI practices have lowered the requirements of hiring practices. They only preserve repeating that it’s anti-white discrimination, obfuscating or fully ignoring the truth that minority candidates nonetheless have to indicate the identical credentials that white males have to indicate to show they will do competent work, in addition to the truth that DEI efforts had been solely vital within the first place as a result of America is traditionally and arguably presently a patriarchal white supremacist nation.

And that’s the factor: Why shouldn’t we name them white supremacists?

MAGA supporters and Republican officers watched as Trump stood on stage and in contrast South American migrants to Hannibal Lecter, and known as them “animals” who’re “not human.” They heard him dabble in eugenics-style scientific racism by suggesting migrants have “unhealthy genes” that predispose them to commit violent crimes. They cheered him as he lied about migrants bringing “large infectious illness” to the U.S. and mentioned they’re “poisoning the blood” of the nation. They watched him and VP JD Vance unfold hateful propaganda about pet-eating Haitian migrants, who Vance claimed with out proof induced an increase in HIV instances in Ohio.

They had been current as Trump and his minions made Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identification extra of a difficulty than she ever did. They witnessed his incapacity to attraction to Black voters with out leaning into anti-Black stereotypes. They had been there when Trump solely focused voting districts with giant Black and Latino populations along with his election fraud lie. Republican legislators used the momentum from that deceive move vote suppression legal guidelines and redistrict their congressional maps with the expressed function of diluting Black voting energy.

White MAGA conservatives witnessed all of this and their response was usually: No, that is tremendous.

Perhaps fewer individuals would name Republicans racist in the event that they didn’t persistently show they’re unable to debate the border crises with out relentlessly and unapologetically utilizing xenophobic and dehumanizing language in opposition to migrants. Perhaps fewer individuals would name them racist in the event that they didn’t battle tooth and nail to have Accomplice leaders acknowledged and celebrated as American heroes. Perhaps fewer individuals would name fashionable Republicans and white conservatives white supremacists in the event that they weren’t promoters of the white nationalist Nice Alternative Concept, which insists white individuals have an inherent proper to dominate America.

The issue is it’s exhausting to “clarify” all that in a single quick CNN section. After all, even when there have been time, white conservatives would nonetheless reply by sitting there, mouth agape, clutching their white supremacist pearls.

So annoying.