Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s tacit defense of white nationalists in the U.S. military has not sat well with either Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, or CNN’s Jake Tapper.
As previously reported, on Monday the senator butted heads with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins when she harangued him about possible white nationalists in the U.S. military. Her intent was to get him to denounce white nationalists as racists, but he didn’t budge, instead arguing that white nationalists are just Americans with different opinions.
He later conceded that racism is bad and that white nationalists are bad if they’re racist. But again, he abstained from automatically labeling white nationalists as racists, arguing that there’s a difference between white nationalists and white supremacists.
The reason he refused to throw white nationalists under the bus was likely because of the habit of leftists smearing standard conservatives as white nationalists.
Indeed, while speaking with Collins, Tuberville said, “The thing about being a ‘white nationalist’ — it’s just a cover word for the Democrats now where they can use it to try to make people mad across the country. Identity politics: I’m totally against that.”
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Now fast-forward to Tuesday, when CNN’s Manu Raju questioned McConnell about Tuberville’s difficulty “denouncing white nationalism, especially as it pertains to white nationalism in the military.”
Instead of first perhaps conferring with Tuberville about the meaning of his remarks, McConnell rushed to give a statement to the media.
“White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country,” the Senate GOP leader replied.
Listen:
McConnell’s pithy response did not sit well with the GOP base, as many rushed to lecture him about the difference between white nationalism and white supremacy.
“The meaning of white nationalism has nothing to do with white supremacy at all. na·tion·al·ism identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations,” one critic tweeted.
“Does Sen. Tuberville go around promoting white nationalism or is this a controversy manufactured by a journalist’s question? To me, it looks like the same old attempt to FRAME things around white nationalism and racism, which the Dem media does every time there’s an election,” another wrote.
See more criticism below:
The discussion was about ‘white nationalism’ and McConnell denounces ‘white supremacy’.
That’s some fancy footwork there. Denounce what wasn’t even the issue.— Sporkitus (@sporkitus) July 12, 2023
Isn’t there a difference between supremacy and nationalism? But then McConnell always makes sure invitations to DC cocktail parties keep coming his way.
— Liberty247 (@d_taggert) July 11, 2023
Mitch McConnell thinks White Nationalism is the problem. He also needs to be told that White Nationalism and White Supremacy are different. People need to start talking about this Black on Black violence along with Black on anyone violence.
— Tessaprn (@tessaprn) July 11, 2023
Schumer also responded to Tuberville’s remarks.
“The definition of white nationalism is not a matter of opinion. White nationalism—the ideology that white people are inherently superior, that people of color should be segregated, subjected, and relegated to second-class citizenship—is racist down to its rotten core,” he tweeted Tuesday.
Look:
The definition of white nationalism is not a matter of opinion.
White nationalism—the ideology that white people are inherently superior, that people of color should be segregated, subjected, and relegated to second-class citizenship—is racist down to its rotten core.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 11, 2023
Then there’s CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“Just for those who are out there wondering, white nationalism is racism,” he said. “It is the belief that whites are superior to other races. That’s what it means. That’s the definition,” he told his audience Tuesday.
Listen:
The problem is not everybody agrees with that definition. Nor does everybody agree that white nationalism is a problem. In fact, many say that black nationalism is a far more pressing problem in modern America.
See some criticism below:
If there’s one thing leftists are great at, it’s changing the meaning of words.
— Danny B (@iamdima24) July 11, 2023
It is, so why do you LEFTISTS constantly push it in the form of the soft bigotry of low expectations?
— WhiskeyMusingsBroadcast (@whiskey_musings) July 11, 2023
Dude. Have you not seen what’s going on ? It’s not a problem with white nationalists. We have black people wanting spaces and schools and graduations with no white people. You better check your facts
— Nikki mac (@Nikkimac187) July 11, 2023
This “White Nationalism”, is it in the room with us?
This is rich coming from the people who sent hundreds of billions of tax dollars to literal nazis in Ukraine.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) July 11, 2023
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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