Racism comes in many forms, but according to the left, it can only qualify as racism if it comes from a certain source.
That's been the running narrative for decades now, and it's one that's spawned a million social rules that have silenced millions of tongues or, at the very least, made people adhere to certain social rules that act as a kind of soft censorship.
This really only applies to you if you're white, and sometimes Asian. If your melanin level exceeds a certain percentage, what counts as racism begins to change, and to no one's surprise, this has created an entire class of racism that is socially acceptable.
Case in point: Bonchie reported on the dust-up between Ana Navarro and Brad Polumbo Monday on CNN. As Polumbo pointed out, Navarro was being hyperbolic when she called Donald Trump's time in the Oval Office a "reign of terror," to which Navarro replied that it only seems hyperbolic to him because he's a white man.
When Polumbo pointed out she was being racist, Navarro dismissed the idea that she was being racist at all:
POLUMBO: Yeah, that is hyperbolic.
NAVARRO: No, it might be hyperbolic for you as a white man. It's certainly not hyperbolic for me as a Latino.
POLUMBO: Oh, sure, sure, be racist.
NAVARRO: No, I'm not being racist.
POLUMBO: You're dismissing my opinion for being a white man.
NAVARRO: No, I'm not dismissing your opinion.
POLUMBO: Yes, you are.
NAVARRO: I am telling you that the Latino community, the brown community, in America
POLUMBO: ..They don't speak with one voice.
Ana Navarro dismisses opinion of CNN panelist because he is a white man.
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) July 15, 2025
"It might be hyperbolic for you as a white man." pic.twitter.com/dVlVw6gTUb
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In truth, Navarro was racist twice here, and Polumbo pointed this out beautifully.
Firstly, Navarro is not the voice for the entire Latino community, which is a tendency of the leftist community to resort to when it comes to their personal opinions or politics. The impression they want to give is "I am X, thus I speak with authority on behalf of the X community," effectively boiling down that entire community to one singular opinion.
It gives them a sort of hill you have to climb because it artificially puts them into a position of authority. It's not real, but many people are too afraid to call that out.
And that's because many people have bought into the idea that a person of color has more moral and experiential authority than a white person does, and therefore, whenever a white person makes an argument, it's worth less than everyone else's. The idea here is that white people have privilege and exist in a nation "built for them," and so any hardship is buffered by their whiteness.
It's a cheap way of reducing someone's arguments and dismissing their points, but not only is this incredibly racist, it's based on a wildly false premise.
If two people of differing races experienced the same traumatic event at the same time and place, no one can say, "the white person experienced that trauma less because he's white." The nature of reality may be viewed differently from person to person, but it doesn't change the reality of what just happened.
The mental buffer one may have to help deal with a traumatic event, contextualize it, and learn from it may differ, but this isn't race-based at all. This is all experiential. Two people of the same race may also experience the same traumatic event and come away with two different conclusions about it.
This relates to Navarro's point. She's speaking for Latinos on Donald Trump's presidency, describing it as terrifying. However, many Latinos approve of Trump's handling of the immigration issue. According to Newsweek, 50 percent of Hispanic voters approve of what he's doing.
What of their voices? Do their experiences and opinions not matter because they don't line up with Navarro's? Why do these Hispanic voices not matter?
I stand corrected. She was racist three times.
The bottom line is that the human experience runs the gamut. A person's skin color does little to dictate their voice on any given subject because the cool thing about humanity is that it comes at any given situation from a myriad of perspectives, thanks to a nearly infinite variation in life experiences. Being white doesn't stop things from happening to you; it doesn't stop emotions and personalities from being crafted by these experiences, and skin color doesn't really halt the impact of bad experiences.
Try telling a white woman who experienced intense sexual assault that her rape wasn't as bad as the rape suffered by a girl with a darker skin color, thanks to her lack of melanin. I'm sure it'll make her feel better.
Navarro wants to claim authority in the conversation because her race closely matches up with the race that is primarily being deported (though that's not the full story), but perhaps Navarro is so blinded by race that she can't see that if these deportations were to stop, all people have to do is not come here illegally. However, her position seems to be that Hispanics shouldn't have to adhere to the laws of the United States because... they're Hispanic and Hispanic people should get privileges other races shouldn't?
So she's racist four times.
