What are you demanding / That we feel?

The New York Times @nytimes

President Trump weighed in on friction between a group of Democratic congresswomen and Nancy Pelosi, suggesting the congresswomen – none of whom are white — should “go back and help fix” the countries they came from. Only one was born outside of the U.S. Trump Tells Freshman Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came FromThe president’s attack, which Democrats slammed as a racist trope, was meant for four progressive freshmen who have clashed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Only one was born outside the United States.nyti.ms

July 14th 2019

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“Only one was born outside the U.S.”

Did you read that and think, EXACTLY! UGH! Did you see that and think, oh yeah, PELOSI CLAP DOT GIF, go in with that fact check NYT.

Because what I saw was, so it would be okay if all of them were born outside the U.S? It is okay for the one who was? Because what I saw was that thing we do when we think we are being virtuous but are unwilling to raise the stakes. What I saw was a failure to acknowledge the kind of fight we are in, a fight for which some of us are armed with tepid fact-checks and others are wielding the powers of an entire government and reinforced by centuries of white supremacy.