Roy Lowry, editor-in-chief of the conservative National Review, calls Haitian migrants the “n-word” during interview with Fox commentator Megyn Kelly.
While discussing the debunked claim of immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Lowry said residents called to “complain about Haitian [n word]s.” He caught himself and then said migrants but not before his comment was caught on tape.
Kelly never blinked or brought it up when he finished speaking.
Lowry then clownishly claimed on Twitter/X that he misspoke that he “began to mispronounce the word 'migrants' and caught myself halfway through."
But he clearly did not mispronounce migrants. (If you clicked on the link above, you heard him in his own words.)
But are we really surprised that Lowry said out loud what Republicans say behind closed doors?
National Review founder and father of the modern conservative movement, William F. Buckley, Jr., was a staunch defender of Jim Crow and racial segregation saying that the white race was the “advanced race.”
Racism has long been fundamental dogma for conservatives. But Trump has normalized overt racism. He made it okay to be racist in public.
And now we have leaders in the Republican party saying in public what they say in private.
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