‘It’s Racist’: James Carville, Dem Senator Torch Their Party For Treating All Minorities As ‘The Same’

Democratic strategist James Carville and Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin criticized their party in a Saturday video for treating all minorities as if they are identical rather than unique.

Carville, on his “Politics War Room” podcast, condemned the phrases “communities of color” and “people of color,” calling them “racist.” Slotkin, while not using the same term, agreed that it is wrong to assume that all individuals can be understood solely based on their racial identity.

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“I just want to make a disappointed observation. I think these people, the most racist thing that I hear is when people say ‘communities of color’ or ‘people of color’ because that assumes that everybody that is not white is the same, which is that, like, it’s horribly, a horribly — I think it’s racist to say, ‘Well, Filipinos are the same as Hondurans, are the same as Nigerians, are the same as Indonesians’ is absurd,” Carville said. “And they just keep using this language and I think they’re too naive to know how stupid it is. That’s my own view.”

“Yeah, I mean, I think, again, the data will show you that it’s just not accurate, right? I mean, you look at, where, you know, some of our Muslim American communities voted, where some of our South Asian American families voted. I mean, it just, it doesn’t work, at least in a state like Michigan,” Slotkin responded. “It’s like a giant mixing bowl on political preferences, and if you, you know, think that you understand a community because of their country of origin, you’re just, you haven’t run in a swing state. I’ll tell you that.”