That Khizr Khan is still a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee should tell you everything about how the party has become nothing more than a vessel for “social justice” and the fetishization of victimhood.
Khan on Friday sent out a fundraising email for the DNC that began, “Trump and the GOP have done nothing but cause tremendous harm over the past three years.” He then went on to ask for $7 toward the Democratic Party.
Recall Khan as one of the Democrats’ key speakers at their national convention in 2016, put forth to lecture then-Republican nominee Donald Trump about the Constitution. His main qualifications for being onstage were apparently that he’s a Muslim immigrant whose son was killed while serving in Iraq. According to social justice, the ideology that now governs the Democratic Party, that means he’s a victim — inherently moral and beyond reproach.
That remains true even after Khan was caught lying in 2017 about having his international travel rights restricted by the federal government. In that episode, he claimed, without evidence, to have been forced to cancel a speaking engagement in Canada after he was alerted by authorities that his “travel privileges are being reviewed.”
News organizations, including NPR and the Washington Post, asked Khan to clarify what he meant. He couldn’t, of course, because he was lying. Why? To perpetuate our raging culture of victimhood.
As described in my book, Privileged Victims: How America’s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated Its Worst People, to claim oppression on account of your race, gender, or sexuality is to make your way forward in today’s America.
That’s why, rather than refer to Khan as a professional grievancemonger, the national media instead continue calling him a “gold star father.”
CNN last year in March: “Gold Star father Khizr Khan tells @smerconish that the ‘the same hate’ caused the New Zealand, South Carolina and Pittsburgh attacks.”
ABC’s The View that same month: “Gold star father Khizr Khan discusses his relationship with Sen. John McCain, and condemns Pres. Trump’s attacks on the late senator.”
There are a lot of “gold star fathers” in this country, yet somehow, Khan always pops up as the authority on all that’s decent. But he’s not an authority on anything. He’s a fundraiser for the DNC, and a reminder that victimhood has become the unofficial currency of the United States.
