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Jesus Christ this line: >"If Chief Scott is claiming that his hands are tied, it’s his fingerprints on the rope." Talk about tone deaf.
by scotuswroteus 5y ago
Jesus Christ this line:
>"If Chief Scott is claiming that his hands are tied, it’s his fingerprints on the rope."
Talk about tone deaf.
- tbrockman 5y agoWhat do you mean? I don’t really understand what’s tone deaf in that statement.
- scotuswroteus 5y agoSo in public communications in a big cosmopolitan and diverse city like San Francisco, words with any potential dogwhistle implicatoins matter. It will be quite distracting to many who read this op-ed all the way through that the author, smart expert that he is, chose to invoke a metaphor about a ROPE with respect to a black man in leadership. I absolutely have zero reason to believe the author ever thought through those possible implications. But the particular choice of invoking a rope is an unforced error, and the metaphor wasn't particularly useful to the broader point he is making.
- djohnston 5y agoyou're reaching, having one's hands tied is a common expression and tying people's hands preceded chattle slavery in north america, let alone lynching.