The disgusting remark about Mrs. Obama last night was not an aberration.
For many years, the rightwing has been pushing a deeply racist conspiracy theory that sheās a trans woman, which is, of course, drawn from a dehumanizing and thoroughly absurd-on-its-face trope that Black women canāt be feminine.
This particular slander against Mrs. Obama has been going on for many years, and watching some quarters of conservative media pretend to be offended by the same remark that theyāve enabled in online spaces all this time strikes me as pretty goddamn pathetic and dishonorable.
But itās not surprising. I would expect nothing different from Trump and his most ardent supporters.
Any woman they donāt likeālet alone hateāparticularly Black women, arenāt āreal women.ā
This is what they do. Itās not accidental.
Donāt let them claim otherwise.