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Washington Submit columnist Richard Cohen is generating controversy once once more. Remaining time we checked in with the white-bearded author, he controversially defended George Zimmerman‘s decision to “profile” a hoodie-carrying younger black man named Trayvon Martin. These days, he’s drawing outrage for a unusual passage about conservatives, interracial marriage, and a resultant “gag reflex.”
The column, entitled “Christie’s tea-birthday celebration downside,” makes a speciality of prospective candidates for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination, and their possibilities in the closely-conservative Iowa caucus. Looks as if pretty run-of-the-mill political analysis, proper?
However then came this paragraph:
Lately’s GOP shouldn’t be racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged concerning the tea celebration, however it’s deeply troubled — in regards to the growth of presidency, about immigration, about secularism, in regards to the mainstreaming of what was the avant-garde. People with standard views should repress a gag reflex when making an allowance for the mayor-pick of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Must I mention that Bill de Blasio’s spouse, Chirlane McCray, was a lesbian?) This household represents the cultural modifications that have enveloped elements — however now not all — of The usa. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their us of a at all.
Mockery ensued: Cohen received the Gawker remedy, and changed into the butt finish of many ridiculing tweets, from both left and proper:
Richard Cohen has an unconventional view of what standard views are.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 12, 2013
Most unbelievable a part of Cohen column is how far out of his method he went to get to de Blasio.
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) November 12, 2013
Who doesn’t have to repress a gag reflex when they read Richard Cohen? http://t.co/bhGOhKSiOJ
— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) November 12, 2013
How can the Washington Publish now not can Richard Cohen after this? https://t.co/DR3dCrQ4si
— Mike Riggs (@MikeRiggs) November 12, 2013
How did that Richard Cohen column get earlier a Washington Put up editor?
— John Nolte (@NolteNC) November 12, 2013
