Why is Harris’s response to racism pivotal, rather than what Orange David Duke said itself? Another example of how only Democrats have agency in journalists’ eyes, while Republican awfulness is taken as the natural, immutable way of the world.
The major papers are running behind. There's been a paradigm shift and they have not caught up.
I mean it's NOT. She's an American, and this is weird. Her existing does not need extra pivoting. In fact I don't want to see pivoting from her. Apparently I want to see it from WaPo, whose response this is, and I'm gonna be sitting here a long time waiting. Unsubscribe to NYT, WAPO etc.
Trump faces pivotal moment as he struggles to understand that people can be biracial: Does he need a 4th cognitive test ?
Orange David Duke is fine but why not Duke a l'Orange?
…extending the birther shit… same extension will mass deport the journalist that wrote this…
The MSM journalists love this type of lazy ass framing.
As my daughter @madepner.bsky.social pointed out to me, someone on social media wrote that the mainstream media treat the Democrats as protagonists (and charge them with growing and changing) and the Republicans as antagonists (implacable forces of nature that cannot be expected to change).
Murc's Law is immutable.
It didn't occur to me until seeing this that she would respond to it at all. Why should she? But of course the media will insist that she has to and badger her until she does and then pick apart her answer and let some white guy opine on it. I should have realized.