Originally posted by TempAccount
Like I said, I don't know what context she said it in, but if she used it as a red herring to get out of addressing police brutality, then yeah she's clueless.
It's definitely "whataboutism" but so? The point was to highlight hypocrisy. When democrats deflected from Ilhan Omars anti-semitism by going "what about Steve King?" was that them participating in anti-semitism? Does a Republican anti-semite somehow cancel out a Democrat anti-semite? Is that how this works?
Either this kind of tactic is okay or it's not. It can't be racist or bigoted for one side, but not the other. It can't be okay when it comes to matters related to jews, but not with blacks. It can't be okay when someone on the left does it, but it's racism, etc. from folk on the right. There needs to be consistency(speaking of consistency, I thought the left didn't feel minorities could even be racist, or does that special rule just apply to the left leaning minorities?)
And she'd be clueless if she said blacks experience no police brutality or racism. As far as I can tell she tweeted out uncomfortable facts. So okay you've called her clueless, does that mean she is also being racist? If so, can you specifically highlight the racism here?
Oh and, if she had responded to someone discussing black on black violence with "what about all the white on white violence" or something like that, do you feel she'd be labeled racist by the left? Since whites are most likely to be on the receiving end of violence from other whites, just like blacks are most likely to be killing other blacks. It's just blacks commit murder at a higher rate than whites and in fact commit a majority of homicides in the country. Wait, is that fact racist too? Is the FBI racist for compiling that stat?