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Title : "Mr. Walker, I believe you when you say that you’re not smart.... You are the personification of a game being played by Georgia Republicans..."
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"Mr. Walker, I believe you when you say that you’re not smart.... You are the personification of a game being played by Georgia Republicans..."
"... a wager that any Black Republican — in your case, an empty intellectual vessel — can beat the Black Democrat, a man who is thoroughly qualified and utterly decent. Walker is Georgia Republicans’ attempt to undermine the image of Black competence, by making a mockery of Black people, by replacing a thinker with a toady. It seems clear to me that Walker will inflate or deflate his intellect to fit a function. The truth is irrelevant. This is at the heart of Trumpism."Writes Charles M. Blow in "Herschel Walker Says He’s ‘Not That Smart.’ I Believe Him" (NYT).
Did Hershel Walker say he's "not that smart"? Yes. He said it in the context of managing expectations for the debate: "I’m this country boy, you know. I’m not that smart. And he’s a preacher. He’s a smart man, wears these nice suits...."
Like Walker and his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock, Blow is black. He's endeavoring to make Walker's blackness different from Warnock's blackness. The black Democrat is "thoroughly qualified and utterly decent," but the black Republican is "a mockery of Black people... a toady." Democratic party politics is decent and Republican politics — at least in the Trumpian form — is completely insincere.
Blow stops slightly short of calling Walker a complete nothing. He's not an "empty vessel," but an "empty intellectual vessel." I don't know what an "intellectual vessel" is, but I think he means Walker is a vessel that is empty of anything intellectual.
But we'll see how Walker debates. It's actually just very conventional to characterize your debate opponent as glib. A "preacher," "a smart man," in "these nice suits" — it all sounds like old-time-y language saying watch out for the fast talker, the con man, and see my limitations as somehow good. I'm humble and honest.
Walker offered a line for anyone to snap up: "I'm not that smart." That seems like red meat for racists, but I'm only seeing how a black NYT columnist used it.
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"... a wager that any Black Republican — in your case, an empty intellectual vessel — can beat the Black Democrat, a man who is thoroughly qualified and utterly decent. Walker is Georgia Republicans’ attempt to undermine the image of Black competence, by making a mockery of Black people, by replacing a thinker with a toady. It seems clear to me that Walker will inflate or deflate his intellect to fit a function. The truth is irrelevant. This is at the heart of Trumpism."
Writes Charles M. Blow in "Herschel Walker Says He’s ‘Not That Smart.’ I Believe Him" (NYT).
ADDED: If you google the phrase "I'm Not That Smart" — which I did to see how others were reacting to Walker's line — your results will be dominated by a song — a highlight of the musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee." It gave me an unexpected and delightful escape from the grim racial politics of the Blow column. So let me just point to the off ramp:
Writes Charles M. Blow in "Herschel Walker Says He’s ‘Not That Smart.’ I Believe Him" (NYT).
Did Hershel Walker say he's "not that smart"? Yes. He said it in the context of managing expectations for the debate: "I’m this country boy, you know. I’m not that smart. And he’s a preacher. He’s a smart man, wears these nice suits...."
Like Walker and his Democratic opponent Raphael Warnock, Blow is black. He's endeavoring to make Walker's blackness different from Warnock's blackness. The black Democrat is "thoroughly qualified and utterly decent," but the black Republican is "a mockery of Black people... a toady." Democratic party politics is decent and Republican politics — at least in the Trumpian form — is completely insincere.
Blow stops slightly short of calling Walker a complete nothing. He's not an "empty vessel," but an "empty intellectual vessel." I don't know what an "intellectual vessel" is, but I think he means Walker is a vessel that is empty of anything intellectual.
But we'll see how Walker debates. It's actually just very conventional to characterize your debate opponent as glib. A "preacher," "a smart man," in "these nice suits" — it all sounds like old-time-y language saying watch out for the fast talker, the con man, and see my limitations as somehow good. I'm humble and honest.
Walker offered a line for anyone to snap up: "I'm not that smart." That seems like red meat for racists, but I'm only seeing how a black NYT columnist used it.
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