At one time or another, so-called "President" Dumbledorf Pumpernickel has attacked or insulted former President Barack Obama, U.S. Reps. Maxine Waters and Frederica Wilson, gubernatorial candidates Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum, CNN correspondents Don Lemon, Abby Phillip, and April Ryan, NBA superstar Lebron James and ESPN journalist Jemele Hill, and even his own former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Among other qualities, all of these are persons of color, and Pumpernickel's insults used the old, tired racist slurs and stereotypes ("low IQ," "dumb," and "dogs").
Recently, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D., MN), long a target of the right, declared that Trump advisor Stephen Miller was a white nationalist based on his immigration policies and the right went wild. Republican critics of Omar, including the President's son, Dumbledorf Jr., viewed the congresswoman's attack against Miller, who is Jewish, as anti-Semitic.
So if you claim a person is anti-Semitic because they criticize someone who happens to be Jewish, even though they didn't use any of the familiar anti-Semitic tropes in that criticism, what do you call a person who routinely and systematically insults and attacks persons of color?
A racist. You call that person a racist.
Dumbledorf Pumpernickel is a racist.
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