Pete is untouchable here in the halls of DL because he is a gay man. There were valid reasons to question him before his Biden appointment, because he was unproven on a national level and because of his questionable history with race. His being gay does NOT give him a pass for those things. However, as R330 pointed out, Joy, et. al. he come around, with Joy hing Pete and his husband on her show multiple times since then.
[quote]To them, blackness trumps everything.
Let me guess -- you're white and the "them" goes a little bit deeper than specifically just Joy and Jason.
[quote]It’s why they go through mental gymnastics to excuse Gay’s plagiarism, and blame her ouster on a “racist witch hunt.” While completely ignoring that the Penn President, who didn’t he plagiarism allegations, is gone too without any racial component to her ouster.
Wrong, wrongity-wrong. Joy Reid discussed last night on her show how the "anti-woke" (i.e. racist/misogynist) Christopher Rufo publicly stated in no uncertain terms that he and his ilk were going to doggedly associate Diversity/Inclusion professors and the like (which INCLUDES white women) with Hamas, BLM, decolonization, etc., making it their mission to see that these women were squeezed out of their positions. Joy even noted that the "...elite colleges are capitulating to it and essentially making it so uncomfortable for these women (WOMEN - which includes former UPenn president Liz Magill) leaders that they he to step down..." It seems to me that you're the one going through mental gymnastics, and that you only heard what you wanted to hear.