how the fuck are you reading conway asking a journalist about his ethnicity before she agrees to answer a question, and the writer making a point of this, as the writer being racially biased? are we even in the same world of sense-making?Jay wrote:
I like how they interjected descriptions such as non-white and the reporter as Jewish. Everything in a racist framework. Like clockwork.uziq wrote:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n18/eliot-weinberger/one-summer-in-america
pretty eye-opening when laid out like that.
what was that jay was saying about AOC trying to introduce marxism into the US?The president tweets: ‘We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country …’
The White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway calls the four non-white congresswomen the ‘dark underbelly’ of America. She says that the president is ‘sick and tired of many people in this country’. Asked what Trump was referring to in his tweet, Conway responds by asking the reporter, who is Jewish: ‘What’s your ethnicity?’
It is now part of Republican strategy to describe the four congresswomen, following the president’s tweets, as ‘the face of the Democratic Party’, though all four are serving their first terms and are relatively powerless in the Congressional hierarchy. At a rally in North Carolina, the president repeats his attack on the women. The crowd chants: ‘Send her back! Send her back!’
the writer was – literally – reporting what happened? at which point was he interjecting a 'race issue'? the raising of ethnicity on conway's part was basically a non sequitur.
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