This is why I can't get there. I still care about context, and I care about what people actually say and what they likely mean. If it was about race, he'd say it about others with the same race or ethnicity but different politics. He doesn't.
And I reject this entire framework. It's illogical, anti-intellectual, and it's horse ****. Criticizing a "POC" is not racist at all. It doesn't inject race. The injection of race is almost always by the target of the criticism and the allies of that target as a diversion from the underlying point. Well, that isn't the fault of the critic. It is the fault of the target who doesn't want to address the underlying point on the merits.
Does that make the Tweets good? No. They were stupid, and they were politically foolish. However, I'm not going to diminish my own intelligence, logic, and rhetoric by calling them racist just to rally around some terrible people.
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Last edited: Jul 20, 2019