Neera Tanden argued that most people in the U.S. "would choose not to engage in the world" if they saw the U.S. wage wars without "having oil-rich countries partially pay us back" for the cost of bombing them. That's who some of y'all are throwing down for. It's so gross. Truly.
Leveraging identity and representation to justify the appointment of someone who thinks we should be able to bomb people, and then make them pay for the murderous war we waged, is sickeningly neoliberal. Fighting to elevate and empower someone like that is deeply fucked up btw.
Does it matter that the progressive reporter she punched (for the crime of asking Hillary Clinton a question about Iraq) was also brown? Does the identity of the people who she thinks should pay for the privilege of being bombed matter? Just trying to figure out how this works.
If Trump had appointed someone who had punched a progressive reporter for asking an unwanted question, people rightly would have lost their shit. But Biden appointed someone who did that, so people just yell about how her tweets shouldn't hold her back.
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