Almost 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 — an unconscionable figure in one of the richest and most advanced nations in the world. On Friday, he filled his Twitter feed with solemn words about the men and women who died 19 years ago. It’s easy for conservatives to mock the performative moral panic that now marks progressive attitudes toward race and policing. It wasn’t unreasonable to think that these communities needed to be closely scrutinized so we could protect ourselves from future attacks — just as it wasn’t unreasonable for Muslims to see this as bald-faced Islamophobia. I spent years of my professional life in the early 2000s writing about this issue.

Source: National Post September 12, 2020 10:06 UTC