There’s something about the psyche of Democrats and liberals in the media that renders them incapable of showing appreciation for minorities without sounding like arrogant, condescending dopes.
Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar is just the latest one to think she’s saying something nice, only to have actually exposed herself as a thoughtless panderer.
In an interview Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough asked Klobuchar what she would do as president, were she to visit El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which both experienced mass shootings last weekend. She talked about the “courage” and “spirit” of America before feeding in to the myth about widespread hate and violence driven by white supremacists.
“You say, there is no place in America for this,” she said, “We are a beacon of democracy that brings people together, that most of us stand on the shoulders of immigrants, and that we will not allow evil and hate to tear that apart.”
What exactly does it mean that “most of us stand on the shoulders of immigrants?” Is that what Klobuchar thinks they’re here for? To give her life a boost? If Klobuchar is standing “on the shoulders of immigrants,” maybe she should climb down and campaign for one of them to replace her in the Senate.
It’s like that scene in the 1997 biopic Selena when Jennifer Lopez as Selena Quintanilla says she would “just like to thank all the little people that I had to step on to get here.” Except in the movie, Lopez is joking. This is real life and when Democrats talk like this, they’re being serious. They genuinely believe that they’re doing a bighearted thing by talking about minority groups as though they’re mentally slow, even while sacrificing nothing themselves to show that they actually give a damn
California Rep. Eric Swalwell couldn’t get his failed presidential campaign going with his constant harping about wanting to “pass the mic,” an insipid catchphrase used by social justice people who think straight white men have done enough talking.
Why, isn’t running for president what anyone would do when they’re eager to let someone else be seen and heard?! To show how ready he was to make that sacrifice for someone of less “privilege” than him, Swalwell pledged to pick a woman as his running mate.
He never got to the point where he’d need to pick one at all, but nothing says gender equality like asking a woman to take the least consequential job in politics.
In September of last year, ABC News “Chief Political Analyst” Matthew Dowd bravely declared that white men like himself should “take it upon ourselves to step back and give more people who don’t look like us access to the levers of power.”
What a brilliant idea. Maybe Dowd could have led by example and let someone else take his seat at the roundtable on ABC’s “This Week.” To date, he has yet to do that.
Democrats and liberal talking heads always know just the right, condescending thing to say to a minority. But don’t ask them to actually give up anything of their own to show that they mean it.
