Comment | All are equal in America, but not always

When a government exchanges prisoners, the same criticism always arises: don’t do it, you’re only encouraging more capture or hostages. “It is a message to the whole world that America is willing to deal with hostages,” he wrote Conservative columnist Max Boot The Washington Post Regarding the exchange of captured American Brittney Griner for captured Russian Viktor Bott.

Such reflections are always ‘I’m glad the hostages have been released. But…” There were many such reflections last week. In this case, too, a cynical balance was struck: Is Griner, a professional basketball player, worth as much as Bode, an arms dealer nicknamed the ‘Merchant of Death’? Bode was charged in 2011 with “conspiracy to kill US citizens.” He sold weapons to America’s enemies and allies.

Further upsetting the balance: American Paul Whelan is still in prison in Russia. The former Marine, who was fired in a fraud case, was arrested in Russia in late 2018 and accused of being a spy. He has to serve another 14 years. This gives Republican politicians reason — or: reason — to attack Biden on trade. A vice chancellor tweeted The government “prefers a celebrity over a veteran.”

When another Marine was traded in April, the White House said the Russians were not willing to include Whelan in a trade. Whelan’s family said Biden “made the right choice” in giving Kreiner free rein before the election. Griner’s release is Orphan Day Ron Filipowski, a former Republican who had a day job obnoxiously stalking Republicans, pointed out that he had searched for the term “Paul Whelan” on Donald Trump’s social site, Truth Social. “There was no report before today.”

Republican politicians and their allies do not want to give President Biden any credit for the liberation of a single citizen. There is something more than granite bias here.

‘Identity’

Brittney Griner is an American with African roots, and after a police officer killed unarmed black prisoner George Floyd in 2020, she said the national anthem should no longer be played at sports games. With that fact, the American right has run away. Release the black woman who ‘hates America’ and is a lesbian?

The most prominent voice in the right-wing media landscape, Fox host Tucker Carlson, hit sharply and in great detail, and at the end he made a remarkable skid. “Then there’s the I-ten-de-deed thing,” he said. Brittney Griner is black and lesbian. That may be inappropriate for you — I hope — but it’s not inappropriate for White House spokespeople. He had said that he was personally “very happy” that a role model for the black and LGBTQ community had been released.

Then it came: “You get more rights based on the color of your skin or your sexual orientation. But the way things are in this country is not the way things are here Always Gone.” Carlson, a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory, says left-wing politicians want to replace white Americans with people of color. Never In American history, a person enjoyed more rights based on skin color or sexual orientation. Well, except for almost a hundred years, white and straight American men enjoyed more rights than non-whites, gays, and women.

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