“Send Her Back”

For the liberal media, the chant at a North Carolina Trump rally was racism on full display.

Why?  The target was Ilhan Omar, a native of Somalia and a naturalized U.S. citizen, who is a left-wing Minnesota Congresswoman.

So?  Was it her race, national origin or radical ideology which prompted the verbal shot?

President Trump was in the process of excoriating the first-termer’s agenda when most of the crowd joined in.  Wouldn’t that suggest that her views – not her race – was the subject?

But Trump was quickly blamed by the liberal media for not reprimanding his audience.

“Send her back” as an expression was termed racist by itself.  Leave aside the context – it occurred at a campaign style event – not at a policy forum – where one expects the crowd to be boisterous.  The site would suggest that race had nothing to do with the expressed disapproval.  The Congresswoman had made clear on numerous occasions her unhappiness with America as it is.  For those who are patriots, doesn’t her being a refugee from a terrorist haven who was welcomed to America come across as ingratitude?  Of course she doesn’t have to leave.  But the expression is in the same vein as “love it or leave it”.  Is that racist, too?

The terms “racism or racist” have become divorced from  their original meaning – hostility to a member of a race because of his race.   

Now days their use reminds one of the playground taunt “your mother wears combat boots”.  It was a silly, meaningless slur then; the charge of racism today is not yet silly but it has largely lost any meaning as a result of its indiscriminate use.

In a political sense, race is itself is used as a cudgel – its employment is not merely irresponsible, it’s malicious.  Some of those who are sincere in their name-calling are undoubtedly projecting.  That’s psychological terminology for people ascribing views or motivations to others which they, themselves, harbor.  They view what others do in racist terms since that’s what motivates them!