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The David Duke Standard–The Hasan Piker Exception

Remember the media firestorm in 2016 when Donald Trump supposedly failed to denounce former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke?

Trump, appearing on CNN, claimed he did not know enough about Duke to disavow him. Trump later blamed a faulty earpiece and repudiated Duke and the KKK. But the episode became Exhibit A for those who accused Trump of using racial “dog whistles.”

Then-Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan declared, “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games. They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry.” Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, “Senate Republicans condemn David Duke, the KKK and his racism.”

When Duke later announced a Republican candidacy for the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said: “David Duke & his hateful bigotry have no place in the Republican Party & the RNC will never support his candidacy under any circumstance.”

Now consider the Democratic Party’s treatment of Hasan Piker, the socialist streamer who said, “America deserved 9/11.” He called Israel “the Jewish ISIS” and declared Hamas “1,000 times better than Israel.” Piker warned that if American Jews continue to show, as Piker put it, to be “singularly invested in Israel,” eventually someone would “take action” against them.

Unlike Duke in 2016, Piker is not a........

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