I Would Like to Report a Homicide
Bari Weiss was once again silenced by the Stalinist Thought Police that control America by being given an interview to promote her new book on a nationally broadcast talk show. Weiss engaged in the classic defecting technique known as “Whataboutism,” implying that someone’s concern over an issue is a mere pretext because they don’t care about the issue in other contexts. In this case, Weiss argues that liberals only defend the rights of Muslims if this can be done to criticize Israel. The problem is…, well, I’m not going to be able to top this:
To be serious, here’s an Axios story about every virtually Democrat in the field promising to go further than Trump in trying to help push back against the Uighur detention camps. pic.twitter.com/vjYxay1HPY— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 14, 2019
And who can forget the Democrat-majority Supreme Court upholding Trump’s Muslim ban over Roberts’s passionate dissent because it provided no basis to attack Israel, whose human rights violations no liberal really cares about?
Even better!
pic.twitter.com/RAVN9Mhdy3— the norms misser (@cd_hooks) September 14, 2019
Ouch, as used to be said when blogs were still a thing.