- Friday, April 2nd, 2021
Tim Scott fires back at liberal media critics over ‘woke supremacy’ remark: Left has ‘intolerance’ for dissent
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., fired back at left-wing media figures angered by his recent “woke supremacy” remarks in a Washington Post op-ed on Wednesday, arguing that ignoring both “woke” and White supremacists endangered the country’s future.
“My comments were a sound-bite-length reaction to yet another media figure accusing me of being a token for Republicans,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard that type of slur. I spoke out because I am gravely concerned for our future if we ignore either type of supremacy — both of which are rooted in racism or discrimination.”
Scott, the lone Black Republican in the U.S. Senate, drew liberal criticism after he told Fox News on March 9 “woke supremacy is as bad as White supremacy.” He made the remark after far-left MSNBC host Joy Reid said Scott was only at a Republican press conference opposing a minimum wage increase to create a “patina of diversity.”
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“In other words, my ideology does not match that which they prescribe based on my complexion,” Scott wrote, summing up their arguments. “That is woke supremacy. It is the ‘tolerant’ left’s intolerance for dissent. It is a progressive conception of diversity that does not include diversity of thought. It is discrimination falsely marketed as inclusion.”
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He wrote at the beginning of the piece he was not equating the long history of racial hatred in the United States to modern “wokeism,” as some critics had suggested.
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