It’s amusing when the media-experts blow a rhetorical “tire” at 90-miles an hour. Just picture it – two commentators, one with CNN the other affiliated with Fox News. They are having a radio conversation. What qualifies people for certain jobs. What follows is media gold.
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The Free Beacon reports that David Webb (Fox) thinks “expertise and experience were more important than race.”
“Shouldn’t their requirement, their primary requirement, regardless of ethnicity, regardless of network, be that they are capable of covering politics?” Webb said. “For instance, if you’re going to cover political campaigns, sports may not be the most qualified background. And that brings to the point of if people want to get into these fields regardless of color, I’ve chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I’m qualified to be in each one. I never considered my color the issue. I considered my qualifications the issue.”
CNN Analyst, Areva Martin responds,
“Well David, you know that’s a whole ‘nother long conversation about white privilege and things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don’t have the privilege of,”
David Webb is a Black Conservative.
“How do I have the privilege of white privilege?” Webb asked.
“David, by virtue of being a white male, you have white privilege, which is a whole long conversation I don’t have time to get into,” Martin answered.
“Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should have been better prepped, I’m black,” Webb said.
Martin responds by saying he stands corrected, but Webb doesn’t let him off the hook.
“See, you went to white privilege. This is the falsehood in this. You went immediately with an assumption. Your people obviously, or you, didn’t look. You’re talking to a black man.”
Ideological carpet bombing
Most of our readers are familiar with this. It’s called liberal privilege. The global application by the #Woke, Diversity, Inclusion crowd of toxic stereotypes.
Rather than debate (in this instance) the relevance of experience or skill as superior tools for assigning value, you get rhetorical carpet-bombing. It doesn’t matter what you think. Even when the person expressing the opinion is black, he’s assumed to be white by the radical left. Sorry, I meant by the CNN analyst.
