This is what some mean when they complain about the harmfulness of "identity politics": Omar was dinged for placing the U.S. and the Taliban on a par, and rather than defend that implicit claim of equivalence, the response offered here is a phantom invocation of "anti-blackness."
https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1403016993431867392
Speaking for myself and—I'm confident—many others, I would've offered the same criticism if the equivalence was made by a disembodied artificial consciousness from the planet L9LZRUG.
Omar's "blackness" had nothing to do with it.
Omar's "blackness" had nothing to do with it.
“Stop Islamophobically policing our wholesome attempts to draw equivalencies between terrorist networks and the United States”
https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1403077496296386561
These people have found the perfect way to deflect any and all criticism and to absolve themselves of the responsibility to accurately describe the world: you get to say insane things and then simply frame each reply as an attempt to "silence the powerless." 
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