Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Go Back to Where You Came From

"As a response to Rapinoe's actual argument, Lowry's history lesson is a non sequitur. Her complaint is with America's racial order, not its flag. But like Cooke, Lowry refuses to acknowledge a distinction between the two. On a surface level, both columnists assail the left for equating love of America with indifference to white supremacy; in actual fact, it is Cooke and Lowry who insist on that equation."

Eric Levitz at New York argues that Donald Trump's racist comments regarding four members of the House of Representatives have "made the color of conservative nationalism more plain to the naked eye.

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