Nathan Newman asks whether this is offensive:
“If it were not for the strong support of the Cuban community for this embargo with Cuba we would not be doing this…The leaders of the Cuban community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should.”
It’s a statement of fact.
So why if you substitute Jews and Middle East issues for the above, it suddenly becomes antisemitism? I don’t think Jews are as united on the issue as Jim Moran argues, but this is not a “Trent Lott moment.” Yeah, it has a vague odor of the “Jewish lobby” power argument, but then AIPAC spends a lot of time bragging about its power.
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So it’s offensive to blacks to compare this lousy, obnoxious political analysis by Moran to Lott’s comments. “Black” opinion gets characterized every frigging day, in incredibly offensive ways much of the time. Moran should get his butt kicked for his comments, but its nothing most other minority groups don’t deal with every day from idiot generalizations based on their race.