I wish I could promise that this will be the last Ethics Alarms post about Democrats and the Axis being in denial over the reasons for President Trump’s victory last November. I hope it will. The capacity for self-delusion in this pathetic bunch, however, knows no bounds.
At the University of Virginia, a panel of scholars discussing “Race, Gender and the American Electorate” and moderated by Prof. Kevin Gaines, a professor of “civil rights and social justice,” blamed Kamala Harris’s loss in the Presidential election on racism and sexism.
Gaines said, “Viewed through the lens of the history of African American women in the United States, the defeat of the first black woman nominee [of] a major party for the presidency by an openly racist and misogynistic candidate seemed to recall the voicelessness and vulnerability of black women during the eras of slavery and segregation, particularly in the Jim Crow south.” He went on to compare Harris’s defeat to how “enslaved black women endured the violence of chattel slavery and the exploitation of their labor and reproductive sexuality.” “Even in freedom, black women historically have been overlooked and marginalized, not only by white male oppressors, but also — and often — by their extensible allies: black men and white women,” he concluded.
And this guy is a tenured professor.
Wow.
The panel was held last month at UVA’s Miller Center, supposedly a nonpartisan affiliate. Yeah, that panel sure sounds “non-partisan.” Although the center describes itself as striving “to illuminate Presidential and political history accurately and fairly,” there were no dissenting voices on its panel to point out that, just for starters, its moderator was spouting indefensible nonsense. All of the panelists without exception attacked Trump and those who voted for him in an event billed as a post-election analysis delving into “the complex interplay of race, gender, and age demographics as they affected the outcome.”
Gee, how about a discussion of why having a panel of three black anti-Trump Democrats doing the delving biases the analysis? (The whole program can be viewed here)
Gaines, who really is a piece of work, also said at one point that “it’s quite likely that this election was determined by voters who did not have… as comprehensive a view of politics and the issues as… a fair amount of Harris supporters.” Just…wow. Voting for an incoherent fraud who could never articulate a clear policy position on anything is evidence of “a comprehensive view of politics and the issues.”
At another point in the discussion, the panelists expressed surprise that the abortion issue didn’t carry the day with women voters. Somebody should have pointed out to these boobs that there is literally nothing the President can do to make abortion legal or illegal. The panel did mention the overwhelming majority of black females who voted for Harris…because she is a black female. Who are the racists and sexists again?
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