Democrats have attacked Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s wife Elaine Chao for being Asian, but the media has been silent on the racist attacks.
The Daily Beast’s Ron Christie writes about how there is a growing trend of minority Republicans being attacked for their race: The former Republican Secretary of Labor has had to deal with a number of bigoted comments from Democratic partisans in the last year. So why is racism treated differently when it comes from the left? One can hardly turn on cable news without hearing someone say that Republicans are racists trying to roll back the clock on civil rights.
Having a policy disagreement with President Obama, many of his partisan supporters argue, is nothing more than thinly veiled racism. But Democrats who imagine racist slights and “dog whistles” at every turn would be wise to look at the vicious anti-Asian bigotry on display in Kentucky, which is being fomented by supporters of their so-called progressive party…There is a vicious double standard at play here. Racist attacks against Justice Clarence Thomas, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele or South Carolina Senator Tim Scott are yawned at and rarely mentioned in the mainstream media.
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