LEMON DROP | MAGA's Racism Is On Full Display!
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Who is Jeremy Carl and what position was he nominated for?
just an indication where we are right now as it relates to the people who are in donald trump's cabinet and how far we've come with the we've gone with the racist bigoted members of his cabinet or just people who are unqualified and one of those is that who's been nominated for a very significant position his name is jeremy carl and he had to face a senate foreign foreign relations committee last week because he has been nominated to serve in the cabinet as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. And according to reports, that role involves managing relationships and policies toward the United Nations and its agencies. And that means that this person would have to deal with very diverse people.
And does that even matter? It does matter somewhat. But this is the kind of person the kind of people, he is indicative of the kind of people that this administration is putting into leadership roles. Jeremy Carl is a bigot, is a racist. And if you don't believe me, then I will let you listen to some of what he said during this hearing, which were questions about some of the comments that he's made publicly, some of them on social media that he has erased. But I will start. This one is with Senator Chris Murphy, and he's questioning him about his racist comments in the past. Here it is.
One of the things you have said is that anti-white discrimination is the most pervasive and politically salient form of racism today. So do you continue to believe that anti-white discrimination is more salient than the discrimination faced today by blacks, Latinos, Muslims, or other American groups?
Senator, thank you for that question. And thank you also for giving me an opportunity to speak at a little bit of length. I haven't necessarily had much opportunity to respond. I'm going to have at least one more question.
So just so you know, he does that with every single question, every time he's questioned about something he doesn't answer. And then he says the same thing over and maybe to eat up time, the person's time so that they run, he runs out the clock, but keep going.
So I'll give you a minute or two to respond.
Yes. So thanks to the great work of my friend Harmeet Dhillon as the Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights, I actually think that we've done an incredible job in this administration of getting rid of certain policies that discriminate particularly against white Americans, but also in some cases Asian Americans.
Well, just maybe answer my question. Let's rewind, because maybe you'll suggest that everything is fine now. Let's rewind a year.
Pause right there. Okay. So, again, he's thanking someone in the department or whatever who is also questionable, has questionable beliefs on race and all of this stuff. And at the, I don't know, the... with the leadership of whatever, I don't know if you would call that leadership, but anyway, he's not answering the question and Chris Murphy is gonna try to get him to stick with the correct answer or the answer to the question that he's asking rather than him trying to obfuscate, keep going.
A year ago, were white Americans the most discriminated against group in the United States? You said it. Yes.
Senator, certainly this is my belief. I'm not running away from that. I think that while of course all races in different contexts can be subject to really severe discrimination, that when we look at our legal structures, white Americans are often very disfavored in overt ways. We're seeing this in the Small Business Administration, many other places.
So your belief is that white Americans face more discrimination, at least prior to the Trump administration, fixing this than black Americans?
On average, Senator, yes, that's correct. And I'm not running away from that statement at all.
Why would the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations need to engage with diverse communities?
Pause. He believes that white Americans face more discrimination than African-Americans, than Latinos, than Asian-Americans, than Indian-Americans, than white Americans. And he says under the great leadership of someone at the civil rights.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Jeremy Carl and what position was he nominated for?
0:13–4:21
2
Why would the Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations need to engage with diverse communities?
4:21–6:56
3
What past statements prompted scrutiny during Jeremy Carl's Senate hearing?
6:56–8:52
4
How did Senator Chris Murphy challenge Carl's claim that anti-white discrimination is most pervasive?
8:52–15:12
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