newwavefeminism:

Context: Sam B called Ivanka a cunt on her TV show.

What I really, really resent about this entire fiasco is that this sudden outrage over apologies is actually hella racist. Ever since Roseanne was cancelled and ABC apologized to Valerie Jarrett for her being called a monkey, the literal *official* White House stance was “well, why can’t the president get apologies for all the insults lodged against him. This is a double standard”

The disgusting danger of all this is that it reduces what Roseanne said about Valerie to a mere schoolyard insult. No. The reason behind the outrage was that equating black people to monkeys is a specific reference and call back to a real time in our nations not-too-distant-past where it was a popular belief that black people descended from monkeys there for they were sub-human and slavery, Jim Crow, oppression, anti-blackness is not only acceptable but NECESSARY.

Yes, White House, we draw a hard line at calling black people monkeys.

But what Donald Trump has effectively done is completely erase the necessary racial context behind this entire situation. He’s employed the racist dog whistle of “double standard” and he’s asserting that if this black woman gets an apology for an insult, than him and his despicable better get apologies too. And all these journalists and all white news rooms are reporting on this nonsense missing this crucial piece of context and it’s further burying this sad reality.

I’m super sick of this