Monday, January 21, 2019

Pocahontas and the dishonesty of the left

In the Atlantic instead of writing an apology for his complete and total misrepresentation of what happened when an adult native American activist harassed a bunch of high school boys James Fallows, the author of the incorrect article, doubled down on his claims of racism.

He wrote in an update to his article:

"...a political movement (and a movement whose leader uses “Pocahontas” as an epithet..."

He was trying to brand Trump and his followers as racists. The problem is that what Trump did to Elizabeth Warren, a white woman who has published the DNA results that prove she's white, isn't racist in the least.

That quote proves that Fallows is either clueless or dishonest.  Trump calls Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas to mock her false claims to be Native American.  Trump is not disparaging Native Americans he's mocking a Democrat for lying about being a Native American in order to land a great job at Harvard.

Fallows is apparently unconcerned about Warren stealing a job from a real Native American but mightily upset that Trump would dare call her out about it.  The only racist thing in the entire Trump, Warren, Pocahontas story is that Elizabeth Warren knowingly pretended to be a Native American in order to make money. Yet Fallows acts as though it's Trump who is the problem for calling out Warren's dishonesty.

We know that Fallows is dishonest and biased based on the fact that instead of apologizing for getting it wrong and for maliciously smearing a bunch of high school kids simply to advance his hatred of Trump he's doubling down and saying that kids being harassed by an adult after being verbally abused  and told to go back to Europe for the sin of being white were the villains and that they project  "implicit edge of menace" while lying that it was the kids who approached the adult when he knew that it was the adult who had approached the kids.

But Fallows is an example of what modern American journalism has descended to.  To be fair other left wing commentators have admitted their mistake but Fallows is not alone in eagerly exposing kids to death threats in order to advance his agenda.

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