Ya can’t make it up. In all the coverage surrounding the Atlanta shooting, in which several Asian women at a local massage parlor were murdered by an admitted sex-addicted maniac who happened to be white, much has been made about discrimination against Asians.
Curiously left out of this discussion are the major-deal lawsuits brought against Ivy League Harvard and Yale for alleged discrimination against Asian applicants. (Harvard was eventually cleared – but why were they charged in the first place?)
Now the hypocrisy of liberals on this issue has been called out by “The View” co-host Meghan McCain – who promptly gets dumped on by The Washington Post.
The headline: Critics pounce on Meghan McCain’s comments about Asian representation on ‘The View’
The story by reporter Meryl Kornfield begins this way:
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain is once again under fire after saying Wednesday that she feared “identity politics” would allow Asian people to get jobs over White people.
The show’s panelists were discussing calls by Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) for more Asian American Pacific and Islander, or AAPI, representation among President Biden’s Cabinet. While the other co-hosts endorsed greater representation, McCain, who is considered the show’s conservative voice, questioned whether promoting AAPI figures would deal a blow to candidates who are more worthy of the positions — an assertion that earned a quick rebuke from many who said talent and diversity are not mutually exclusive.
Her comments were so widely shared on social media that her name became one of the top trending topics Wednesday on Twitter. By that evening, one video clip had more than 2.5 million views on the platform.”
Stop. Full stop. Notice the very first sentence in this report of what Meghan McCain said? It was this:
“‘The View’ co-host Meghan McCain is once again under fire after saying Wednesday that she feared ‘identity politics’ would allow Asian people to get jobs over White people.”
Um, no. That was not what she said or meant. What Meghan McCain clearly meant was that race and gender – no matter the race or gender – should never trump qualifications. Qualifications are, obviously, color and gender-blind. If one person knows how to change a flat tire and the person next to him on a busy highway has no idea how to change a tire – who should change the tire? Obviously, that would be the person with the tire-changing experience. Their color or gender would be irrelevant.
But McCain really drove home her point when she pointed out that The View was 25 years old and in that 25 years had had but one Asian American host. (That would be Lisa Ling.) Then she put her fellow hosts on the spot and called them out directly: Which one of them, she asked, would quit their job to give it to an Asian American?
Answer? No volunteers. None. Zip, zero, nada.
Which, in a snapshot, tells you everything you need to know about how the Left plays the identity politics game. Its rules for thee – but not for me.
Meghan McCain is well on to the game.
Good for her.
