For John, BLUF: We have been assured by Speaker Nancy "Ahab" Pelosi that the OCH action on 6 January was all about Whiteness. This article calls that into question. Nothing to see here; just move along.
Here is the sub-headline:
The Washington Post reveals why so many ‘white supremacists’ are in fact not white. It’s scary
From The Spectator, by "Cockburn", 18 January 2021, 2:57 pm.
Here is the lede plus one:
It’s hard being a pundit these days. Not only does steadily advancing groupthink and fear of cancellation increasingly force you to copy the same takes as everybody else, but frequently those views are very dumb.Fortunately, The Wash Post has an explanation.Take the riot at the Capitol. Some minatory cabal of Twitter, Facebook, Google, the Bilderberg Group, FEMA and the Jesuits has issued its secret decree to all news outlets: the rampage through the halls of Congress was the work of dastardly white supremacists! And the outlets oblige. . . . But there’s a small problem. Somehow, on their way to launching a neo-fascist takeover of the United States, the white supremacists ran out of whites. Simply looking at video of the Capitol riot, or looking at the FBI’s wanted images afterwards, makes it obvious that the mob of Trump die-hards were multiracial. The two most famous members of the Proud Boys, America’s premier ‘white nationalist’ group, are an Afro-Cuban and a Samoan. ‘Stop the Steal’ organizer Ali Alexander identifies as black and Arab. And of course, there are November’s famous exit polls, which showed that Joe Biden was carried to the White House by improving on Hillary Clinton’s support with white voters, while faltering with Hispanics and blacks.
Over the weekend, the paper ran a piece by NYU history professor Cristina Beltrán: ‘To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness.’
It is now a lot clearer.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
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