Liberals have no clear definition of the phrase “white supremacy.” It’s just something they use to convey a deep-seated hatred for anyone who doesn’t vote Democrat. But sometimes, they use it in ways that reveal just how meaningless the phrase for them really is.
Rutgers University President Jonathan Holloway wrote Wednesday in an op-ed for the New York Times about the Left’s favorite fantasy — that to be a Trump supporter, especially one who was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, is to be a white supremacist.
“Many of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 were driven by a belief that they were in acting in accord with the principles fashioned at the birth of this country, that their protest embodied America’s long history of patriotic rhetoric about freedom and citizenship,” he wrote. “And in this, they are at least partly right: Such rhetoric has been used time and again by white supremacists …”
This is at least a familiar narrative, even if it’s dumb. For liberals, reverence for the flag and saying things such as “Make America great again” is all indicative of white supremacy. They’ve been spouting this for the last six years at least.
But thereafter, Holloway dives off the deep end, referring to the right-leaning men’s group Proud Boys as “one of the latest iterations” of “white nationalism.”
Holloway might have missed it, but the leader of the Proud Boys is a Latino named Enrique Tarrio. The group, as with many right-leaning activist organization, has many non-white members. One prominent member, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, is of Polynesian descent.
Even the left-wing Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies notes that the Proud Boys retains “significant membership of people of color.”
The Proud Boys are led by a Latino and are acknowledged to have “significant membership of people of color,” and yet the New York Times allows Holloway to call it a “white nationalist” group. This is the same paper, by the way, that employs a writer who just a few days ago wrote a piece calling for the Biden administration to create a “reality czar” that would help correct our current “reality crisis.”
The rest of Holloway’s column is, with great originality, about how we as a country don’t appreciate the full history of slavery enough. The endless series of Oscars that go to movies about that exact subject every single year is apparently not enough appreciation. But why are we supposed to take any of it seriously when he, like other liberals, is so careless with whom he calls a white nationalist?
