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| Click above for the video. By Greg Foreman |
This is all about race politics in the U.S. and as an old straight white dude, I'm not allowed a view. Or, if I did express one, I'd be complicit in white privilege, if not outright White Supremacy.
So, I let Greg Foreman do the talking here, above. Where he hammers the hypocrisy of the Left, in hammering J.D. Vance over a recent DOGE-related issue. All explained in the video above.
The short story is one of the super-young DOGE guys, who goes by the handle "Big Balls" made some racist comments on X. No-one denies they were racist. He got a lot of flack, because a Congressman, Ro Khanna, himself an Indian-American (in that horrid way Americans have of being hyphenated), attacked him for the racist X post which was anti Indian-Americans. Veep J.D. Vance came to the defence of Big Balls, not on the racism of the X post, but on the principle that one should have the grace of forgiveness. Relevant here is that J.D. Vance is himself married to an Indian-American woman.
I leave the rest to Greg, above.
As an aside, I note this: that Ro Khanna says "I'm proud that Usha Vance, the Second Lady of the United States is an Indian-American woman".
I ask: why is he proud? What exactly did he contribute to her becoming the second lady? Apart from some, presumably, similar ethnic genes? Biden regularly boasts that he's "Irish-American" because his granddaddy was Irish. Well, my granddaddy was Irish too. Should I be proud of that? Be proud of a connection to the American president? On what grounds? I'm Australian. I'm happy when Australia wins the Ashes cricket series. But proud? What have I done, me personally, to achieve the win? Other than share a passport.
If Ro Khanna is "proud" of the Indian bit of Indian-American, is he then ashamed when India does something horrible? How does he feel that India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, unleashed his Hindu hordes on the Muslim minority in Gujarat, when he was governor there, leading to the massacre of 2,000 Muslims? Does Khanna have shame? If not why not? I mean, consistency, right? You can't only be "proud" but never "ashamed".
Hypocrisy, hypocrisy soup to nuts.
