President-elect Joe Biden's most dubious appointment to date was when he tapped Kristen Clarke a week ago to head up the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
In 1994, when Clarke was President of Harvard University Black Students Association, she invited the late Wellesley College professor Tony Martin who authored the anti-Semitic tract The Jewish Onslaught.
More than a quarter century after the fact, Clarke said that inviting someone with Martin's views is something she would not do now.
This is all well and good. But let's be honest here. Had President Trump or any Republican President appointed someone to head up the DOJ's Civil Rights Division had invited a white supremacist to speak at Harvard or any other university would Democrats be inclined to turn the other cheek? Would they have accepted an apology from such a Republican appointee as they have accepted Clarke's apology? If the Republican appointee
The answer is no on both counts. So long as this is the case then the incoming Democratic controlled Senate should not confirm Clarke. But unless a conservative Democrat like Joe Manchin or Jon Tester breaks ranks then I suspect Clarke will be confirmed. In which case, it will mean some forms of anti-Semitism are more acceptable than others.
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