Donald Trump Jr., racism whisperer
Jiang of asking a “nasty question” after she asked why he claimed the United States is “doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing” despite the U.S.’s high death toll, which currently stands at over 83,000. Trump said that people are losing their lives worldwide, and that Jiang should direct her question to China instead.
“Maybe that’s a question you should ask China,” Trump told Jiang. “Don’t ask me. Ask China that question, OK? When you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer.”Jiang, who is Chinese-American, said, “Sir, why are you saying that to me, specifically?” “I am not saying it specifically to anybody,” Trump replied. “I am saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.”To anyone with an elementary understanding that racism is not merely limited to slurs or acts of violence, Jiang’s concern that she was targetted for being Asian-American was reasonable. This is especially reasonable given Trump’s
. But to Donald Trump Jr, Jiang was being unreasonable. Who, after all, has a stronger grasp of racism’s many forms, its subtleties, its bleak pervasiveness, than Don Jr., a white man?
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