This is a bit of departure from the usual Ethics Alarms quiz. I’m not going to ask whether conduct is ethical or not, or what the ethical response is to a particular conflict or dilemma. No, I’m going to ask what a fair and proportionate description would be of the latest vile, racist crap emitted by this serial hate-mongering demagogue.

That’s Rep. James Clyburn—recognize him? He took credit for getting Joe Biden nominated in 2020, and thus has blood on his hands from the carnage out country has suffered from four years of governance by faceless, unelected woke bureaucrats pulling the strings of a senile President. Gee, thanks, Jim!

Check out Clyburn’s EA dossier, easily one of the most damning short of Nancy Pelosi or the late Rep. Barbara Lee. Clyburn’s 85 now, and an “icon,” because he marched with Martin Luther King (but then so did Marion Barry). But he’s always been an flagrant anti-white racist and hyper-partisan liar. Nonetheless, Clyburn topped himse;f while appearing in “The View,” which itself is showing symptoms of dementia. He told the ignorant ladies, and the even more ignorant viewers who watch their daily idiocy, that the modern GOP is trying to bring back slavery. “Anything that’s happened before can happen again,” Clyburn said, as the Trump Deranged of “The View” sat rapt, as if at the feet of the Buddha. “They were trying to set up a process that will allow this country to return to what it was in 1876 when the election got thrown into the House of Representatives and they were able to overturn what Abraham Lincoln and the Congress had done successfully getting rid of slavery. That is what they’re attempting to do today. I get sick and tired of hearing people say this ‘it’s never been like this before,’ Yes, it has!”

Yup. the Republicans are secretly trying to restore slavery. Damn, who squealed? Now, Joe Biden told a black audience, even before his brain started springing leaks, that Republican were planning “to put y’all back in chains!” in 2012, but even then nobody too what Joe said too seriously. Clyburn, however, is supposed to be a revered statesman. Then again, ABC is supposed to have a responsible news department and it allows “The View” to present such garbage under its auspices. In fact, even “The View” is supposed to have some standards, and yet no one of the women on the panel had the integrity, gust or decency to tell the Congressman, “Oh please! How can you say that? The Republicans literally want to go back to selling black men, women and children in auctions, and making them work without pay? By what dark magic would they be able to bring that about, even if they wanted to?”

I should also point out that Clyburn’s history is almost as fanciful as his anti-GOP slander. To begin with, it was the Democrats, not the Republicans, who ended reconstruction with the bartered Presidential election of 1876, and all that happened was the Federal troops were pulled out of the South. Slavery wasn’t “restored,” but the former Confederate slaves successfully withheld civil rights from blacks with the full support of Southern Democrats until forced integration and the civil rights legislation of the Johnson Administration.

But I digress…

Your Ethics Alarms Ethics Quiz of the Day is…

What is a fair and proportionate characterization of Clyburn’s statement that nonetheless does not minimize the vile and irresponsible nature of his claim?