There’s no greater demonstration that the social justice movement has gripped the Democratic Party than the first presidential primary debate on Wednesday.
Candidates Cory Booker, senator from New Jersey; Beto O’Rourke, former representative from Texas; and Julián Castro, former Housing and Urban Development secretary, took turns speaking Spanish. NBC moderator José Díaz-Balart asked questions in Spanish. Marianne Williamson, who will be at Thursday night’s debate, tweeted that she felt she now needed to learn Spanish.
It was a grand signal to those who are supposedly oppressed, aggrieved, and victimized by President Trump. Right now there is no greater victim than Spanish-speaking illegal immigrants.
If we hadn’t spent half an hour speaking in Spanish, we might have heard more from the two random white guys at the far end of the stage who kept raising their hands to speak, only to be passed over so that O’Rourke could say something the vast majority of viewers couldn’t understand.
The debate was a case study in social justice, the ideology that carves people into infinite identities and ranks them by the degree of whatever grievance they can claim.
At the debate, it was first and foremost Spanish-speaking illegal immigrants. But it was also gays, lesbians, and transsexuals. It was black Americans targeted by police. It was even trans black Americans and “trans females” who want an abortion!
Cory Booker inexplicably claimed that “we don’t talk about” trans people, black ones in particular, while Castro was the one crying about abortions for “trans females” (biological men who can’t actually get pregnant).
OK, if there’s one minority we talk enough about, it’s the 0.5% of the country that identifies as trans.
But more to Booker’s point, it’s true that black transwomen are often the victims of violence. There are no scientific studies on the issue but as detailed in my upcoming book Privileged Victims: How America’s Culture Fascists Hijacked the Country and Elevated It’s Worst People, the vast majority of assault and murder cases chronicled by trans-safety groups are committed by close associates, even loved ones, or in simple robberies that police determine aren’t motivated by an anti-trans bias.
Booker was pandering. O’Rourke was pandering. Castro was being Mexican, but also pandering.
White male Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio tried his damnedest to get in on the social justice, concluding the debate by referring to some obscure “they” who have “tried to divide us who’s white, who’s black, who’s gay, who’s straight, who’s a man, who’s a woman, and they ran away with the gold.”
That’s funny. It’s Ryan’s own party on that very stage who did just that.
