Wednesday 16 January 2019

“Republicans Rebuke Steve King but Face Vexing Question: Why Not Sooner?” | NYT


How dare they? How dare they castigate the Right for criticising the white supremacy of Steve King, but doing so "too late" (they say), when they never, ever, never-ever criticise extremism on the Left? How very dare they?
Yes, I'm bovvered....
My comment in The Times:
At least the Reps *did* criticise. And have done so every time a republican stepped out if line. Meantime where are the criticisms of Leftist extremism? Of the horrid anti-semitism of Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton. Nowhere. 
Louis the Jew-hater is unscathed. Rookie Congresswoman Tlaib has terrorist supporters at her swearing in. AOC dances with Al Sharpton, the repulsive anti-Semite and blatant racist. 
In short, the Right cleans house. The Left lets the dirt lie; at most, sweeps it under the carpet. 
In wake of House Republicans stripping Mr. King of his committee assignments, many are asking how he survived unpunished for so long.
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LATER (19 Jan): according to Scott Adams, King didn’t wonder what’s wrong with White Supremacy. What he wondered was what’s wrong with  “Western Civilisation”. Fair enough.
If true, that’s a very different thing indeed. Scott’s point is that the media has simply run with the wrong story and has kept running with it. If I’m not too lazy I might get around to checking it out. Though I must say that if it’s true, King hasn’t made much of an effort to correct the mistake.