Looting is unrelated to race, insist Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino. All these well-dressed looters in post-Irma Florida just happen to be black. It could have been you and me out there.
That’s typical Republican sophistry: they point out the looting to sound truthful and gritty. They even go as far as to spell-out the salient feature of the looting. Then Republicans deny that what they said has any significance at all.
Republican self-serving denial about the reality of crime is not as bad as the Left’s Cultural Marxism—BBC News conflated looting post-storm with desperation, disparity and … slavery. Still, Republican bafflegab about race and crime is dishonest obfuscation.
UPDATE (9/12): DON’T MENTION THE COLOR OF LOOTING. Or the Color of The Help. To describe reality is racist:
Via the Daily Mail: “Terrified tourists on the Dutch-French island of St. Martin have described cowering in their hotel rooms amid reports up to 600 looters are running riot.”
French police give chase on St. Martin after the Hurricane.“British troops delivering fresh water during disaster relief in Tortola on the British Virgin Islands, where soldiers were deployed to restore order.” (Visuals.)
The color of The Help. “Troops are being called in to stop looters armed with guns and machetes on hurricane-ravaged St Martin with food, water and medicine running low, it has emerged. Soldiers from the Netherlands are pictured patrolling the streets on the Dutch side of the island.” (Daily Mail visuals.)
Looting is unrelated to race, insist #Tucker & #DanBongino. ALL these well-dressed looters just happen to be black. https://t.co/P6L3NaHS3t
— Ilana Mercer (@IlanaMercer) September 12, 2017
Denying reality of looting makes one really weird. Correct argument is this: Stating reality as it's observed is NOT racist; it's realist. https://t.co/ziClirCK0i
— Ilana Mercer (@IlanaMercer) September 12, 2017
Tucker referred to looters' gold chains. Racist. ?You can't have it all ways. Acknowledge reality of crime. https://t.co/ziClirCK0i
— Ilana Mercer (@IlanaMercer) September 12, 2017
Maybe it's not Looting, but "Black Lives Matter volunteers rescuing Air Jordan's from Foot Locker during #HurricaneIrma." https://t.co/nHkRH5AQaY
— Ilana Mercer (@IlanaMercer) September 12, 2017