Chicago mayor defends herself with the "R" word

When you cannot criticize someone of color with whom you disagree, because to do so would make you "racist," then you are putting people of color in a special category and thus committing what Condoleezza Rice calls the "soft bigotry of low expectations." Ironically, that would make you the actual racist.

In a knee-jerk reaction, Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot called a "Scooby-Doo" parody that criticized her 'racist' without having read it.

The Chicago Teachers Union posted a "Scooby-Doo" parody Wednesday which criticized Lightfoot for refusing to defund the police. The "not-only-light-in-the-foot" mayor suggested the cartoon was "clearly racist." Not possibly racist, but clearly racist. Of course, she provided zero evidence to back up her disgusting claim, a claim aimed at shutting up and shutting down people who disagree with her. But more importantly, she DID NOT EVEN READ THE TWEET!

On Saturday, the artist of the cartoon responded, criticizing Lightfoot for being ignorant of the cartoon’s true intentions.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blasts ‘Clearly Racist’ Tweet By Chicago Teachers Union Showing Her As Scooby-Doo Villain https://t.co/hQVe10KsPz pic.twitter.com/o0lILGDW0B
— CBS Chicago (@cbschicago) June 18, 2020

According to Fox News, Lightfoot  censured the image and the CTU in a news conference on Thursday.

“If that kind of tweet, which is clearly racist, had been put forward by a right-wing group, we would rightly be denouncing them, and I think our scorn should be no less because it was put out by the CTU,” she said.

“It’s certainly disappointing when a group that professes to be educators, people who are in our classrooms teaching our young people, would engage in these kinds of really deeply offensive and disappointing tactics.”

Electricstripe, the artist of the parody, asked how the leftist meme, calling for defunding the police, could also be considered racist.

“My only question to those people is, how can you have an illustration that promotes the defunding of police, in favor of the Black Lives Matter movement, and also imagery of a Black person being lynched in the same picture? It’s contradictory and simply doesn’t make sense,” Electricstripe told TooFab.

“I’ve been out here protesting alongside my Black brothers and sisters everyday that I can. Why would I throw that effort away with a racist drawing? There are people out here who really hate our teachers and seriously went out of their way to make something what it’s not.”

“When the illustration was described to our mayor, (which I had no idea she was visually impaired to see it for herself) they were described as a group of ‘unhappy white people, around a tied up black woman in rope,'” he said.

“You can already imagine what kind of image pops up into your head when you hear such description. They decided to only describe what was most convenient for them.”

The left eating its own--it has to make you smile.


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