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Like it or not, because of America’s sensitive history on race, some statements are simply not tolerated in polite society.
Roseanne Barr lost her career for a careless comparison of someone’s haircut to a character on Planet Of The Apes. When a hockey fan threw a banana onto the ice to taunt a player, it was treated as a serious racial incident that played out for days.
But such protections only extend to people that are extended the ‘courtesy’ of being treated as though they are fully human. In today’s partisan war, playing for the wrong political team is enough to be disqualifying… at least in some circles.
When someone like Larry Elder shows up on the scene to mess with people’s assumptions, such social conventions of basic decency quickly melt away. We have already seen major media outlets get away with calling Larry Elder the ‘black face of white supremacy.
Now we have some lib in a gorilla mask chucking an egg at Larry Elder and taking a swing at someone in his team.
White liberal in gorilla mask throws an egg at Larry Elder as he campaigns for the California recall. pic.twitter.com/XvEuqRV7hD
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) September 8, 2021
If libs thought Larry Elder was a man deserving of the same dignity as black people on their own team, they would have come out to denounce not just the chick in the mask, but the paper that denounced him as the ‘black face of white supremacy’.
But they didn’t. Because someone who isn’t on their political team doesn’t get the courtesy of being treated as they are fully human.
What fraction of human would they see him as to treat him with basic decency? Half? Three quarters? Three-fifths? Because whatever their current view of him is, it must be less than that.
We notice, however, that Elder kept his head through it all.
And we respect him for it.
Today I kicked off the Recall Express bus tour. Before we even left Los Angeles, my security detail was physically assaulted, shot with a pellet gun, and hit with projectiles. The intolerant left will not stop us. We will recall Gavin Newsom. We will save California.
— Larry Elder (@larryelder) September 9, 2021
Right-wing Twitter was calling out Corporate Media for its hypocrisy and stood by Elder.
Here’s a psychotic lunatic in a gorilla mask throwing an egg at @larryelder then punching a security officer.
Perhaps Newsom’s surrogates and the mainstream media calling Larry a black white supremacist isn’t a good idea?
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 8, 2021
FREEZE FRAME: White rage-filled Democrat and @GavinNewsom supporter aims projectile directly at @larryelder's head.
Media, here is the systemic hatred and racism in politics you have been looking for: pic.twitter.com/qQmsXXCS01
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 8, 2021
National news outlets and journalists who all swear they heard a baseball fan yelling the N-word at a packed stadium suddenly have nothing to say when a person in a gorilla mask throws an egg at a black candidate for governor,
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) September 9, 2021
Put any black Democrat in that picture and you have the cover of every newspaper in America tomorrow.
The people are with you @larryelder.https://t.co/QCohv7h4Mw https://t.co/WTR2qzhldT
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) September 9, 2021
Same Energy.
Different Era. pic.twitter.com/OIMQpl1oOB— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 8, 2021
That’s all you say about this violence? It was more than a flying egg – these Left wing racists were attacking a black man running for Governor.
Why is Spectrum One dismissing racist attacks? https://t.co/0pWPT1yJIl
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) September 8, 2021
Democrats September 23, 1957.
Democrats September 8, 2021. https://t.co/xTJACfCnB1 pic.twitter.com/86GslsNUuy— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) September 9, 2021
