The Democrats and media frenzy over the phantom of 'white supremacy'

Roger Kimball:

Well la-dee-dah. The House votes to condemn “President Trump for his ‘racist comments’ about four Democratic congresswomen of color.”

First, I am glad that “racist comments” was in scare quotes. Why? Because there was nothing racist about the President’s tweets inviting creeps like Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar to leave the United States if she doesn’t like it here.

Second, I wish people would give the phrase “people of color” a rest. Everyone is a color—even, I suppose, Albinos (is that “racist” now, too?). I, for example, am a pleasing pink.

But the fact that someone is dark-skinned imparts to him no special virtue, just as the fact that someone is Caucasian saddles him with no special liability.

Except, alas, that it does. At least in the racist court of identity politics.

Please note the absence of scare quotes around “racist” this time. It is one of the signal moral and intellectual deformations of our time that many people strain every action through the sieve of racial redress. The result is that a pretended campaign against racism is fueled by a thoroughly racist imperative. Remember that the next time someone condemns the phantom of “white supremacy.” It is a category as vacuous as “counter revolutionary” for a paid-up Jacobin or “bourgeois capitalist” for a Marxist.
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There is more.  This piece by Kimball is worth reading in full at the link above.

Democrats and the media have abused the race cart to the point it has become tattered and frayed.  They have allowed themselves to become triggered over trivia.  Your political identity policies should not be an excuse to use the card to defend the poor judgment exercised in political positions by leftist regardless of their ethnicity.