If you’ve ever wondered that the best way to totally shut down a Trump supporter and leave them dumfounded (their default mode being just plain dumb), CNN political commentator Van Jones just gave us all a valuable lesson on how you combat the massive ignorance of those who stand behind the GOP nominee despite his hateful rhetoric and lack of specifics.
At last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, a new star of the far right propaganda and media wing of the GOP, Owen Shroyer–who also goes by the name Carl the Cuck Slayer–asked Jones if he would agree to be interviewed. Jones gladly accepted the offer, and then he took Shroyer to school.
In the interview, Shroyer brought up the Black Lives Matter movement, which he, along with Trump and most of the Republican Party, have been highly critical of. And Jones countered Shroyer by saying that while Shroyer had been eager to accept the Justice Department’s decision to not charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown, Shroyer and many other on the right had adamantly refused to admit that the very same Justice Department also criticized the pervasive racism it found the Ferguson police department.
Shroyer, as is typical of conservatives, tried to change the subject, but Jones hammered his point home with this:
“The only thing you see in Ferguson, and this is where my heart breaks, the only thing you see in Ferguson is that there was a protest about a case that later turned out to be a false situation. And yet the same department also — who you already said was credible — came out and said that there was massive, widespread abuse of the black population, which is part of why they believed what was going on. And yet with that, I don’t see the same level of concern. It is much worse to me to hear that a whole police department has been giving extra tickets to a community — that’s terrible — than if somebody was wrong about some protest.”
And to conservative arguments that support for Black Lives Matter means a person is anti-cop, Jones had this:
“I believe in law and order, I just want the police to obey the law too. I don’t want anyone going to a funeral, black or blue.”
Afterwards, even Shroyer had to admit he was impressed with Jones, commenting:
“I’ve been one of the biggest haters of Vans Jones, probably, on the Internet and I’m going to go ahead and walk back some of my hate for Van Jones. I’ve got a lot of respect for the fact that he just stopped and had a conversation with me.”
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-0i6jWe1U
Featured Image Via YouTube Screengrab
