Multimillionaire entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy defended likening racially-tinged remarks from Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and others to that of “wizards of the grand KKK.”
On Friday in Iowa, Ramaswamy claimed there’s a “new Neo racism on the left” — citing as an example “the Squad” member’s 2019“I think it is the same spirit to say that I can look at you and based on just your skin color that I know something about the content of your character — that I know something about the content of the viewpoints you’re allowed to express,” Ramaswamy told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
“We typically don’t engage in these bad-faith attacks but yesterday a line was crossed. A GOP candidate referred to Ayanna as ‘a modern grand wizard of the KKK’ because she speaks out against racial injustice,” her team said in the pitch,Ramaswamy made the comparison Friday when asked about his experience as a person of color with racism in the US.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley clarified her 2019 remarks, saying that she was ‘speaking to the collective impact of lifting up one’s lived experience.’The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur stood by his comments, countering that there is a mindset among some politicos “that if you’re black or brown, you have to have a particular point of view.”
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