Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) speaks during a news conference at the Capitol on Thursday.On Thursday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) gathered the press to announce that she was introducing a slew of articles of impeachment against various government officials. She has 10 existing impeachment resolutions under her belt, so this itself was not really news. Greene did, however, make a comment worth parsing. (…) Let’s start with the basics. It is certainly not nice to call someone a White supremacist, and the pejorative can be used in an effort to disparage someone. But it is a phrase used to describe someone’s beliefs, not their physical characteristics. You can choose to believe in the supremacy of White people and, in so doing, earn the appellation “White supremacist.” That is not how the n-word works. That word is simply used to describe people based on skin color. It is a disparagement not of what they choose to espouse but of a physical characteristic they don’t control. What’s more, it’s an attack based solely on that characteristic and the speaker’s belief that this characteristic is somehow worthy of mockery or diminishment. This is a long way of saying that using the n-word as a pejorative is inherently racist, a disparagement of millions of people. Calling someone “White supremacist” is not. Even when used as an unfair attack, it’s specific to that person, not to everyone like them.
via washington post: Calling someone a white supremacist is not equal to using the n-word
siehe auch: Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Jamaal Bowman has ‘put her life in danger’ and called her a white supremacist – which she likens to the ‘n-word’ – after clash on Capitol steps ‘What concerns me about Jamaal Bowman is he has a history of aggression, not just towards others but towards me in particular,’ Greene said After Greene’s remarks, Bowman insisted her comments were ‘dangerous and reckless’ and likened her to a white supremacist ‘I never invaded her personal space I was laughing and gregarious the entire time. How is that intimidating?’ Bowman said of his row with Greene.