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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The political knife fight over Ilya Shapiro's tweet is a win for the conservatives.

The liberal objection to his tweet is that his use of the phrase “lesser black woman” can ONLY be read as having a racist meaning.  That is disingenuous.  When read in the context of the tweet, the phrase conveys that if Biden limits his candidates to black women and, therefore, does not pick Sri Srinivasan, who in Ilya’s view is “the objectively best pick,” that Biden is limited to choosing a lesser qualified black woman.  The conservatives, on the other hand, are reading the phrase in context, but are ALSO noting, if it is taken out of context, that it could have the negative racist connotation insisted upon by the liberals.  In short, the conservatives are taking the more nuanced view and will come off as more reasonable.  So where does that leave us?

By insisting that the phrase can only have a racist meaning, that has fired up the liberal base (witness this thread).  However, by doing so, it has also fired up a conservative defense (again, witness this thread).  So far, that’s politically neutral – both bases fired up.  Further, this outcome remains true whether Ilya loses his job or not.

[b]What about a more tepid partisan?  They must be rolling their eyes at the disingenuousness of the liberal position, which can only help the conservatives. Once folks complete the political analysis, I suspect this will exit the news cycle quickly.[/b]
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The vast majority of people have no clue who this guy is or have heard about this "controversy". [/quote]

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