By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Meet Ryan Patrick Winkler. He's a 37-year-old liberal
Minnesota state legislator with a B.A. in history from Harvard University and a
J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. He's also a coward, a bigot,
a liar and a textbook example of plantation progressivism.
On Tuesday, Winkler took to Twitter to rant about the
Supreme Court's decision to strike down an onerous section of the Voting Rights
Act. The 5-4 ruling overturned an unconstitutional requirement that states win
federal preclearance approval of any changes to their election laws and
procedures. Winkler fumed: "VRA majority is four accomplices to race
discrimination and one Uncle Thomas."
This Ivy League-trained public official and attorney
relied on smug bigotry to make his case against a Supreme Court justice who
happens to be black. "Uncle Thomas" wasn't a typo. Denigration was
the goal, not an accident. It was a knowing, deliberate smear.
After being called out by conservative social media users
for his cheap attack on Clarence Thomas, Winkler then revealed his true color:
yellow. He deleted the tweet (captured for posterity at my Twitter curation
site, twitchy.com) and pleaded ignorance.
"I did not understand 'Uncle Tom' as a racist term,
and there seems to be some debate about it. I do apologize for it,
however," he sniveled. "I didn't think it was offensive to suggest
that Justice Thomas should be even more concerned about racial discrimination
than colleagues," he protested.
Holding a black man to a different intellectual standard
based on his skin color. Accusing a non-white conservative of collectivist race
traitorism. Employing one of the most infamous, overused epithets against
minority conservatives in the Democratic lexicon. "Apologizing," but
disclaiming responsibility. Sorry ... that he got caught.
Just another day at the left-wing racist office.
Rabid liberal elitists expect and demand that we swallow
their left-wing political orthodoxy whole and never question. When we don't
yield, their racist and sexist diatribes against us are unmatched. My IQ, free
will, skin color, eye shape, name, authenticity and integrity have been
routinely ridiculed or questioned for more than two decades because I happen to
be an unapologetic brown female free-market conservative. My Twitter account
biography jokingly includes the moniker "Oriental Auntie-Tom" -- just
one of thousands of slurs hurled at me by libs allergic to diversity of thought
-- for a reason. It's a way to hold up an unflinching mirror at the
holier-than-thou NoH8 haters and laugh.
We conservatives "of color" are way past anger
about the Uncle Tom/Aunt Tomasina attacks. We're reviled by the left for our
"betrayal" of our supposed tribes -- accused of being Uncle Toms,
Aunt Tomasinas, House N*ggas, puppets of the White Man, Oreos, Sambos, lawn
jockeys, coconuts, bananas, sellouts and whores. This is how the left's racial
and ethnic tribalists have always rolled. But their insults are not bullets.
They are badges of honor. The Uncle Tom card has been played out.
Of course Winkler didn't think it was offensive.
Smarty-pants liberal racists never think they're being racist. In their own
sanctimonious minds, progressives of pallor can never be guilty of bigotry
toward minority conservatives. Ignorance is strength. Slurs are compliments.
Intolerance is tolerance.
And when all else fails, left-wing prejudice is always
just a well-intended joke. (PBS commentator Julianne Malveaux's death wish for
Justice Thomas set the standard: "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs
and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. ... He
is an absolutely reprehensible person.")
Back in her day, before the advent of democratizing
social media, Malveaux and her elitist PBS friends could get away with such
vile bile. But liberal crabs in the bucket, viciously trying to drag dissenters
"of color" down, can no longer engage in hit-and-run with impunity.
Conservatives on Twitter have changed the dynamic in an underappreciated,
revolutionary way. The pushback against liberal political bigotry is bigger,
stronger and swifter than it's ever been.
You can delete, but you cannot hide.
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