“It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks.” So wrote a black anti-Proposition 8 protester in 2008 while describing how other left-wing demonstrators had hurled the n-word at him — all because 70 percent of black Californians had supported the proposition. It may shock many that such bigotry comes from “liberals” — the ideological group billing itself as “anti-racist.” But it’s no surprise to Erika Donalds.
In fact, says the wife of Florida House Republican Byron Donalds, “The most racist attacks we experience are always from the Left.”
Erika, who is white, was addressing criticism she and her black husband have received from the woke brigade in the wake of the publicity Congressman Donalds recently enjoyed. Donalds was proposed as an alternative to Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) during the contentious battle for speaker of the House, which concluded with McCarthy’s victory on January 6.
Daily Wire reports on the story, writing that “Erika Donalds took to Twitter on Wednesday to address the attacks against the black GOP congressman alongside images of posts from responses she has received.”
“‘Byron and I have been together for 23+ years, and the most racist attacks we experience are always from the left,’ the congressman’s wife … said,” the site continued. “‘They can’t accept that a free thinking black man achieves success on his own merits, and they sure as heck can’t stand that he’s married to me! Cry harder, haters.’”
“The screenshots Donalds included shared attacks on her based on her race, with one user writing she looked up the Republican congressman and said she ‘should have known your wife was White,’” Fox News adds.
“‘I’m not a racists (sic), but…’ the user wrote in the post about the congressional wife’s race.” Erika’s tweet with a sampling of negative comments is below.
Fox continues:
“Surprise surprise, his wife is… nevermind,” another user wrote. A third user tweeted, “No surprise he has a snowflake for a wife.”
“I’m embarrassed and ashamed,” a fourth user wrote. “Seen his wife? I’m not surprised.”
Other users attacked Donalds as a “prop” — similar to the racially-charged attack against the Black Republican congressman by progressive Democrat Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri during the House speaker votes [tweet below] — and another asking if Erika was failed Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s “wife.”
Erika Donalds also tweeted more examples (below) of the vitriol hurled at her and her husband, which included a man who called her a “white, fascist wife.”
Of course, hatred and prejudice — the latter of which means to pre-judge without proper knowledge and examination of the facts and often draw incorrect conclusions — have ever plagued man. But is the Left really more likely to exhibit these faults?
Leftists have long openly displayed certain prejudices, such as that against men (“toxic masculinity”), whites (“white fragility”), Christians (“intolerant fundies”), and conservatives (Biden calling Trump supporters “semi-fascists”). So newshounds are used to hearing stories such as that about Yale lecturer Aruna Khilanani, “who described her desire to ‘unload a revolver into the heads’ of white people during a lecture to Yale’s School of Medicine,” as The Federalist related it last year; or that of ex-CNN host Reza Aslan, who in 2019 called all Trump voters “white nationalist terror supporters” and wrote that 45’s “evil, racist scourge must be eradicated from society.” But, some may wonder, what’s the explanation for the apparent anti-black bigotry from people who claim to be the champions of “people of color”?
It’s not just the examples already mentioned, either. Last year, liberal Democrat Nury Martinez was forced to resign from the Los Angeles City Council presidency after making “racist” and “derogatory” comments about blacks and other groups. Note, too, that liberals such as Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and famed writer George Bernard Shaw were the racial eugenicists of the early 20th century. But this is no surprise, as there’s nothing in “leftists’” governing philosophy that actually says racism is wrong.
To understand this phenomenon, consider that operating on emotion guarantees prejudgment (prejudice) because emotion isn’t about “proper knowledge and examination of the facts”; that’s the intellect’s role.
To analogize it, you may dislike any food you please without explanation; you dislike it simply because you dislike it. It’s not a result of logical analysis, and that’s fine because it’s a matter of taste. You may dislike a food without even trying it, just based on smell or appearance. As is said, “There’s no accounting for taste.”
Yet if man operates emotionally in all things, everything then becomes a matter of taste — including people. An individual may instinctively dislike a person or group, and, if he lacks any morality yardstick (i.e., Truth) above his emotions telling him they’re wrong, why wouldn’t he go with what feels right?
“Leftists,” as they’re called, are in fact especially prone to this because they’re emotion-oriented. They are so at least partially because they’re characterized by moral relativism, hence don’t believe in Truth (objective by definition), and thus don’t have it as a yardstick for making decisions. This means that the most compelling “values” guide they have left is emotion. Ergo their hedonistic credo, “If it feels good, do it.” But that can have a corollary:
If it feels bad, hate it.
In a nutshell, when you operate on preference and not principle, your guiding principle will be prejudice.
