The librarian was a black anti white racist hater.
She deserves nothing.
The mass media deserves nothing.
They deserve no respect, no consideration, no toleration.
They are our enemies.
They should be treated like enemies.
Don’t even think about playing by their rules.
We are still talking at cross purposes here. Your opinion of the lady is irrelevant. My opinion is irrelevant. The only person whose opinion is relevant is Donald Trump, and he hasn’t stated a reason for the firing. So he has left that a blank.
The (potentially) important thing here is that that the PUBLIC doesn’t have the slightest idea who she is, nor why she was, and should have been, fired.
The democrats will (and already are) rushing in to fill in the blank. They will charge that she was fired because she was black and female, that Trump is racist and misogynist, and that he is dog-whistling to the white supremacists.
That’s not true, but in the absence of any stated reason, the lie becomes the only story on offer. Why give the dems that opening? Yes, this is a war. We shouldn’t be passing ammo to the enemy.
Trump just fired the top person in a major cultural institution. Someone in Presidential Personnel could have written a one or two sentence statement about the need for a change of direction to reorient the LOC away from the DEI agenda. Which is true. Another poster reported that the lady’s predecessor was fired and she was appointed by Obama to commit the LOC to his new agenda. That sounds right to me. Assuming that’s the case, it is perfectly appropriate to fire her. Personnel are policy, and if she was an Obama political hire, Trump should fire her.
You and I understand that. But why let the enemy define the terms for the first round of the controversy, if this has any legs at all? (It might not; this might be forgotten by this evening.) By failing to give a reason, we let the enemy define the reason.
Most of the public made up their minds about Trump, one way or the other, a long time ago. But most is not everyone. It’s always best to give a reason. It doesn’t have to be a long one. A sentence or two would do it. It would have been even better to have a replacement lined up, and announce that the change is being made because Trump has confidence in X to be the change agent the LOC needs to do Y.
The lie becomes the narrative if no one states the truth.