Fox's Diamond & Silk accuse Rep. Steve Cohen, a white man, of being "racially insensitive" by eating fried chicken to mock William Barr, another white man. pic.twitter.com/kmQV6P8ZSk— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) May 3, 2019
And Colonel Sanders was a white man (as are the actors who still portray him). Is eating fried chicken inherently racist? Since when?
(and yes, I know this has nothing directly to do with the new regs for HHS and healthcare, but the co-opting of the language of the civil rights movement has reached its nadir)
As pointed out elsewhere this morning, irony can be a cruelly double-edged weapon. Those two on that network is such wrongly conceived irony. See also: Lindsay Graham.
ReplyDelete