If you missed Steven Teske's "Marana Opinion" on May 24, "Turning civil rights against itself," please find it and read it. As Mr. Teske explains, attacking the Digital Equity Act as "racist" and "unconstitutional" is part of Trump's larger conscious pattern of "reframing any reference to race or ethnicity, no matter how benign ... as discrimination itself."
This approach - which Trump broadly uses - presumes and plays upon the ignorance, gullibility and prejudices of his audience. It produces sound bites.
It is also dishonest, deliberately using the language describing historical, pernicious discrimination to claim that any "discrimination," even ameliorative, is racist. It's a cheap trick, easy, dirty pool, and too many of Trump's sycophants, in and out of Congress, are falling for it.
Many thanks to Mr. Teske for his insightful, cogent, sad interpretation of Trump's dangerous hot air.
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