Fox & Friends on Yale Student Telling Peers to Document ‘White Boy’ Transgressions: ‘How is That Not Racist?’
On Fox & Friends Saturday, co-host Pete Hegseth reported on an op-ed by a student writer at Yale, which encouraged fellow students to document the behavior of “white boys” for future use against them.
“How is that not racism?” Hegseth asked.
The article, written by Isis Davis-Marks, is titled “Evil is banal“, and begins with the premise “Everyone knows a white boy with shiny brown hair and a saccharine smile that conceals his great ambitions.” On Fox, Hegseth related it to the scandals in Virginia over blackface photos.
“You look at Kavanaugh, you look at this instance, it goes back to college,” he said. “Well an op-ed in the Yale Daily News, one of the Ivy Leagues, has a writer. Her name is Isis Davis-Marks, wrote a– just, I’m just going to read what she wrote. It applies, you’ll see how it applies to what we’re talking about right now.”
He then read a portion of the op-ed:
When I’m watching the white boy — who is now a white man by this point — on CNN, I’ll remember a racist remark that he said, an unintentional utterance that he made when he had one drink too many at a frat party during sophomore year. I’ll recall a message that he accidentally left open on a computer when he forgot to log out of iMessage, where he likened a woman’s body to a particularly large animal. I’ll kick myself for forgetting to screenshot the evidence.
And, when I’m watching him smile that smile, I’ll think that I could have stopped it.
“Effectively she is arguing– listen, this is racism, I will say that,” said Hegseth. “‘I will find the white boy and I will do any instance to document the sins that he has committed when he an idiot in college so that some day can I use it against him.’ Where does that end?”
“And how is that not racism? I mean that sincerely,” Hegseth continued. “I don’t even know what Isis’s race is, it doesn’t even matter.”
Co-host Ed Henry added that “advocating spying on a white man in a business situation when they’re a grown adult is still a little bizarre,” and said that saying “white boy” does “sound racist.”
The three hosts, to include Jedediah Bila, agreed that that the idea of documenting and holding onto behaviors of youth is not just bizarre but a negative for everyone. “It is a scary time to be a human being who does make mistakes and does have to have an opportunity for redemption and for growth,” said Bila.
“Yeah I’d like to invite Isis on our program, because this is not a remark. This is an op-ed. Which means you sat at computer and typed it, which means you thought about it when you typed it,” said Hegseth of the writer, who is herself a youth in college.
“How do you get away with saying that, too,” Bila asked. “That type of racial–”
“Well because there’s a double standard, of course,” said Hegseth.
“It’s horrific,” said Bila.
“It’s terrible,” Hegseth replied.
“Downright bizarre,” Ed Henry agreed.
Watch the clip above, courtesy of Fox News Channel.
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