Roger Kimball:
“…there was nothing racist about the President’s tweets inviting creeps like Somali-born Rep. Ilhan Omar to leave the United States if she doesn’t like it here…
…I wish people would give the phrase “people of color” a rest. Everyone is a color…
…the fact that someone is dark-skinned imparts to him no special virtue, just as the fact that someone is Caucasian saddles him with no special liability.
Except, alas, that it does. At least in the racist court of identity politics…
…I am also struck by how divided the world of the chattering class is about the President’s recent tweets. It all started a couple of days ago with this fusillade:
We will never be a Socialist or Communist Country. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY HERE, YOU CAN LEAVE! It is your choice, and your choice alone. This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country…They are anti-Israel, pro Al-Qaeda, and comment on the 9/11 attack, “some people did something.” Radical Left Democrats want Open Borders, which means drugs, crime, human trafficking, and much more.
Several friends wrote to ask what I thought. “I like it,” I said, or words to that effect. So did they, and they, by the way, were a diversegroup (that’s good, right? Diversity is good?). We all agreed that the President’s follow-up today was also the stuff to give them:
Our Country is Free, Beautiful and Very Successful. If you hate our Country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave!
…I don’t worry about his “character” or his Tabasco tweets. I rather enjoy them, to tell the truth, not least because they challenge the pieties of political correctness…”