We’re one week into Kessler, a white man whose family helped found Shell Oil, investigating whether Sen. Scott’s family story as Black farmers in the post-Civil War south was too, in his words, “tidy”
https://twitter.com/glennkesslerwp/status/1388987901736886274
If WaPo were a conservative pub attacking the lineage of a Black liberal politician, they would be banned from Twitter by now, counting down the days until SPLC and ADL label them a hate group.
I’m running out of words to describe how earnestly depraved this whole thing has been.
Some of this obviously isn’t all that surprising - people on the left have a long history of trafficking in tropes they would recognize as racist if conservatives said them as soon as a PoC dares be conservative - but it also tells a deeper story.
We’ve gotten to a point where no one is even defending this stuff but people like Kessler know they’re so far removed from criticism and blowback that he can pull shit like this.
Kessler stopped fact checking the President of the United States to invest more time determining if Scott’s Black family of farmers was sufficiently poor in the years immediately after slavery.
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