What a fascinating piece, written "…under a pseudonym, Cillian Zeal [the byline] is a conservative writer who is currently living abroad in a country that doesn't value free speech and exercising it would put him in danger". Besides over using the self-defeating stylistic device of pretending to mistake his target — a Democrat who placed third in her own primary — for a white Republican, Zeal left his own clumsy and disingenuous rhetorical question: Now, where’s my point in all of this — other than Democrats can be (and often are) flagrant racists, and that the popular theory that African-Americans can’t be racist is very clearly wrong? entirely unanswered. If you or anyone can figure out the point of the Buttafuoco anecdote — besides mocking the man for his name — he followed with, do please clue us in.
Anyway, by the end we learned the truism, that black people can be as nastily racist as as anyone else, and that, as is usual in the game, when a pol are is they almost always apologize — the White House being a conspicuous exception. In this case, effusively to a fault: “In the divisive age we find ourselves in, I should not contribute further to that divisiveness. I have reached out to Representative Chang to meet with her so that I may apologize to her in person. I pray she and the Asian American community can find it in their hearts to forgive me.”
With that Zeal finished, his purpose abandoned: "In closing, I’d like to point out that this is all fun and games until someone like Bettie Cook Scott is contributing unsigned editorials to The New York Times. That someone is Sarah Jeong." AaaHH! the real subject revealed at last!
But having gotten our hopes up, he dashes them again, running off into unrelated 'what ifs' about people not involved in the incident: "If Rep. Scott was a bit savvier, she could have just told all of us conservatives getting hyped up about her racism that we didn’t get the “context,” But that closing does absolutely nail the effect of her article: "… just going to have to settle for not having anything happen to her at all. And isn’t that the real tragedy?"
No tragedy at all, if the writer is sincere, if not, then pointless even if sorta cutesy, and at least not ostensibly untrue. Just not worth anyone's bandwidth..