The Democrat platform for 2018.
The undying contention that every person who voted for President Trump is racist graced CNN’s airwaves this morning.
It’s an argument that’s much better understood when fleshed out beyond the confines of a tweet or protest sign, as CNN allowed it to be today, but nevertheless implicates millions of nonracist people in evil conduct. It’s also an argument well worth understanding as a representative slice of the worldview that dominates academia and bleeds consequently into the media and pop culture.
Here’s how commentator Michaela Angela Davis made the assertion on CNN Wednesday morning:
avis: …I think it’s important we don’t make Trump seem this untouchable thing… that no one gets to be Trump but Trump. Tens of millions of people voted for him after he showed his cards for years.
John Berman: But are you suggesting that they’re racist —
Davis: Absolutely yes. Yes.
Berman: All the people that voted for Donald Trump are racist?
Davis: Yes. They may not be violently racist, they may not be — he’s targeted. He’s very clear and strategic. Look, anti-blackness is a strategy that has been the foundation of part of the American project. So we have to grapple with the idea if that if you heard someone at their rally say ‘build a wall, kill them all.’ If you heard someone say —
Alisyn Camerota: You know that people interpret this differently and to paint as broad a brush saying you are, saying that everybody who voted for him is racist. They’ll say that people compartmentalized during Bill Clinton and you overlook the things that you’re uncomfortable with because you like the policy. You can’t paint that broad of a brush stroke.
Davis: Racism isn’t broad. What you are not hearing is there’s so many different levels of racism and how it works itself out.