{"id":556745,"date":"2021-06-08T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556745"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:06:24","slug":"watch-dozens-of-american-flags-disturbing-trump-voters-see-american-ness-as-whiteness-nyt-editorial-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dozens-of-american-flags-disturbing-trump-voters-see-american-ness-as-whiteness-nyt-editorial-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Dozens Of American Flags \u2018Disturbing,\u2019 Trump Voters See \u2018American-ness\u2019 As \u2018Whiteness\u2019: NYT Editorial Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dozens-of-american-flags-disturbing-trump-voters-see-american-ness-as-whiteness-nyt-editorial-board-member%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556745&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/American-Flag-Stock-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaking on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/mara-gay\">editorial board member<\/a> Mara Gay pronounced that she was \u201cdisturbed\u201d when she saw numerous American flags on pick-up trucks, claiming the message was white people telling others, \u201cThis is my country. This is not your country. I won this.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.3\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraGay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaraGay<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> admitted that the sight of &#8220;dozens of American flags&#8221; is &#8220;disturbing&#8221; to her. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kE1kJEptV\">https:\/\/t.co\/8kE1kJEptV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NewsBusters (@newsbusters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsbusters\/status\/1402289062199840770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Host Mika Brzezinski prompted Gay by surmising that a commission looking into the events of January 6 would be vital, then segued into calling former President Trump \u201ca threat to our democracy to this moment.\u201d She stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>Post-Trump, there needs to be an investigation that looks into how we got here, and that\u2019s why the January 6 commission would have been so important or looking into the events that led up to January 6, Mara Gay. Because I\u2019m not just talking about the week before, I\u2019m talking about the months before, and even the years before. And it may be that the one way that perhaps there can be an explanation to the American people who were hornswoggled or misled in any way by this man who is a threat to our democracy to this moment.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gay responded, \u201cI think this is another area where Democrats really need to get serious about talking about what this threat is. I think you said it really well, Joe, a minute ago, where you talked about the need to stop being surprised by all of this and start taking it seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay then posited that Democrats should simply ignore the GOP and proceed on their own: \u2018\u201cYou know, it\u2019s really concerning to me that the Democrats haven\u2019t just gone ahead at this point and said, \u2018We\u2019re doing this on our own\u2019 in terms of getting a commission together to explain to the American people how we allowed the insurrection to take place in the Capitol. I think that really needs to move forward swiftly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Gay turned to her position that many Americans refuse to \u201cshare the democracy with others\u201d because they see \u201cAmerican-ness\u201d as the same as \u201cwhiteness\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>You know, the reality is here that we have a large percentage of the American population \u2014 I don\u2019t know how big it is, but we have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others. I think that as long as they see \u201cAmerican-ness\u201d as the same as one with \u201cwhiteness,\u201d this is going to continue. We have to figure out how to get every American a place at the table in this democracy but how to separate \u201cAmerican-ness,\u201d America, from \u201cwhiteness.\u201d Until we can confront that and talk about that, this is really going to continue.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gay crescendoed to her feelings of being disturbed when she saw American flags:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>I was on Long Island this weekend visiting a really dear friend. I was really disturbed; I saw dozens and dozens of pick-up trucks with explicatives (sic) against Joe Biden on the back of them; Trump flags, and in some cases just dozens of American flags, which is also just disturbing, because essentially the message was clear. It was, \u201cThis is my country. This is not your country. I won this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>And so until we\u2019re ready to have that conversation, this is going to continue. What really is concerning to me as well is it\u2019s not just Democrats in Congress; I think there\u2019s a large percentage of Americans, even from my colleagues in journalism who are invested in some way in pretending that this isn\u2019t the threat that it is. That is the real concern, because the Trump voters who are not going to get on board with democracy, they\u2019re a minority; you can marginalize them long-term. But if we don\u2019t take the threat seriously, then I think we\u2019re really all in bad shape.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3645833333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYT\/MSNBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraGay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MaraGay<\/a>: In Long Island last weekend, I saw \u201cdozens of American flags,\u201d which was \u201cjust disturbing\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RhGdqqJope\">pic.twitter.com\/RhGdqqJope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1402218237048279041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In July 2019, Gay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyt-editorial-board-member-attacks-cruz-over-ryan-saavedra\">attacked<\/a> Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after he had referenced the legendary orator Frederick Douglass. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1146953662121615366\">Twitter thread<\/a>, Cruz had corrected activist Colin Kaepernick over a misleading post about Douglass by the former quarterback on the 4th of July.<\/p>\n<p>Gay responded on Twitter: \u201cFrederick Douglass is an American hero, and his name has no business in your mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz replied, \u201cLet\u2019s see. You\u2019re on the editorial board of the NYT. You respond to any view you don\u2019t like, not with facts or reason, but w\/ ad hominem attack. And you seem dismayed that I linked to Douglass\u2019s entire speech, so readers can judge for themselves. You represent your employer well.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.591954022989\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s see. You\u2019re on the editorial board of the NYT. You respond to any view you don\u2019t like, not with facts or reason, but w\/ ad hominem attack. And you seem dismayed that I linked to Douglass\u2019s entire speech, so readers can judge for themselves. You represent your employer well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c8168yiCgY\">https:\/\/t.co\/c8168yiCgY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1147243735505391616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe,\u201d New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay pronounced that she was \u201cdisturbed\u201d when she saw numerous American flags on pick-up trucks, claiming the message &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279601,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/American-Flag-Stock-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Dozens Of American Flags \u2018Disturbing,\u2019 Trump Voters See \u2018American-ness\u2019 As \u2018Whiteness\u2019: NYT Editorial Board Member","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/American-Flag-Stock-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Dozens Of American Flags \u2018Disturbing,\u2019 Trump Voters See \u2018American-ness\u2019 As \u2018Whiteness\u2019: NYT Editorial Board Member","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}