Donald Trump Weeping Crocodile Tears For 'The Indians' Hillary Clinton Offended
This Friday, Hillary Clinton did a not-very-cool-thing by saying "I have a lot of experience dealing with men who sometimes get ' off the reservation ' in the way they behave and how they speak," in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper. Understandably, many people did not care for that particular turn of phrase, particularly Native Americans.
Donald Trump heard about this. He heard alllllll about it and now he is going all "SEE? LOOK WHO IS THE RACIST NOW!"
In an interview with CNN's New Day, Trump stated :
"The way she talks about, I can handle men who get off the reservation, I think is a very demeaning statement. I won't even bring up the fact the Indians have gone wild on that statement. You know that? The Indians have said that that statement is a disastrous statement, and they want a retraction."
He then went on to say that the statement was "offensive" to men.
Putting aside the fact that it is maybe weird to call Clinton out for saying "off the reservation" with the phrase " The Indians have gone wild! " (which, to be fair, is a step up from saying they are "on the warpath") -- IS DONALD J. TRUMP A SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORING PC THUG NOW?
What about his deep and abiding love for being "politically incorrect" and offending people? Why is he SILENCING Hillary Clinton for saying an un-PC thing? Isn't that against AMERICA? What? Has he been taking an ethnic studies class? Will we no longer be able to look forward to him saying things like "the blacks love me" or "Mexicans are rapists?" Who will be there to point out when a woman may be bleeding from her wherever? For shame, Donald Trump, for shame.
Slots, actually.
This is generational. There's a lot in the social justice movement about awareness of unconscious racism in standard phrases. People of Hillary's (and my) generation have to be unusually vigilant to avoid these phrases. I would put "off the reservation" squarely in this one, and would say it's probably something she should be aware is a racist construction and shouldn't be used. Evidence of actual racism? Nope.
Ok, enough earnest exploration, back to the snark.