Nobody can say Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., doesn’t know exactly who’s in charge of his party now that he’s seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. Swalwell proudly tweeted on Tuesday that as “a white man,” he’s fully aware that he “can’t speak to someone else’s experience.” Therefore, he promised to select a woman as his vice president.
How kind of him.
The tweet included a video clip from an MSNBC interview wherein he said it’s as important to “recognize where you can’t speak for someone’s experience and pass the mic to someone who can.” He also said he would “put forward a diverse candidate” as his vice presidential nominee.
Swalwell is checking all the boxes he can to satisfy the social justice movement that now lords over his party:
- acknowledge male privilege: check
- submit that a person aggrieved for their race, gender, or sexuality has their own more virtuous and important “truth”: check
- pledge to honor the authority of intersectionality: check
These are the same reasons Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke have apologized for being white and the same reasons Pete Buttigieg’s first order of business in the primary race was to apologize for firing a black police chief who had been secretly taping the phone calls of his underlings.
Social justice rules the Democratic Party, ranking every candidate on an grotesque, ever-shifting scale of oppression or the acknowledgment thereof.
Swalwell isn’t considered a front-runner for the nomination. But that he recognizes the sad state of his party could eventually make him one.
SPOILER ALERT: I’m a white man.
I know where I can’t speak to someone else’s experience and I pledge to:
1️⃣ Pass the mic
2️⃣ Ask a woman to serve as VP pic.twitter.com/yz7hUB3bRA— Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) April 24, 2019
