Black women because the right has been trying for years to spin “pro-choice” as an inherently racist position, since black women get proportionately more abortions than other categories. It’s nothing more than an attempt at a gotchaya, by way of pointing out “liberal hypocrisy”. “You claim that you support diversity, yet you endorse the killing of black babies. Checkmate!”
Hence, “the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity.” It makes no sense on its own, but if you’ve been indoctrinated into the conservative talking points, it makes perfect sense.
My questions were all rhetorical- all those things in Vance’s post were intended to be inflammatory without actually adding to the point he was trying to make. It could have just as easily been local activists busing white women to Illinois, with respect to the point he was trying to make, but none of that is nearly as inciting to the Right.
We all know that there’s nothing magical about California, 747s, George Soros or black women with respect to the point he was trying to make, but those things all fire up the people who he’s writing toward.
I’m almost surprised he didn’t add a reference to MTV, which gets some people in the “Christian” Right riled up even though they haven’t been culturally relevant to anyone for many years.
I wonder if there’s an element of “buzzword bot bingo” going on.
IOW, a post by an RW candidate or talking head which contains enough RW buzzwords gets noticed by the Russian-, Koch-, or Murdoch-controlled bot network which then reposts, forwards, re-TwitFaces, talks up, or whatevers the original message.
Thereby ensuring it “goes viral” in seconds or minutes, not days. Suddenly lots of people see that lots of other “people” are happy with this post. So of course they’re now happy about it too. And help to spread it even more.
It’s not the same thing, but technically, the FBI can prosecute Americans for certain things (such as sex exploitation) done in foreign nations even if those things were legal in those foreign nations. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone make a constitutional argument that Texas still has jurisdiction over what Texas residents do in California.