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When the Truth Becomes a Dog Whistle

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan discusses gun violence in a clip posted April 28, 2023
By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com

There’s a school of thought that believes that every instrument that makes a sound is a dog whistle.

The MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan provided a remarkably telling example of this perspective a week or so ago when he objected to Bill Maher’s talking about the problem of murders in Chicago in particular and black-on-black crime in general.

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1651997504089600015?s=46&t=2dt0o4Wx7p33C1lenJP5Rw

Hasan’s rant is worth dwelling on because it’s such a clear demonstration of how intolerable certain realities are to left-wing opinion, even when they involve black lives in the starkest way possible.

Hasan sounded as if Maher was the moral equivalence of Lester Maddox for retailing …

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Source: Mehdi Hasan and Progressives Limit Debate on Crime and Murder | National Review