Thursday, September 23, 2021

Debasing the Language

A Daily Mail (U.K.) story quotes Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley calling the horseback Border Patrol “white supremacists.” In case the Congressperson hasn’t been paying attention, most of the BP in that region are Hispanics, including these vaqueros most likely. 

Seems like anybody whose policies or actions you don’t like can be a “white supremacist” these days. Even if they are Black like Larry Elder in CA.

The story also calls the riders’ long reins “whips.” Perhaps we can forgive a Brit for not knowing the difference, they don’t often work cattle on horseback in the U.K.