[nitwit005]

Acting like race determines everything isn't exactly the healthiest strategy either.

Ultimately we're discussing assuming someone is a racist because they said something negative about a person of a different race. That assumption is also a racial stereotype.

[cmrdporcupine]

No, there's two levels to this.

The dickishness/meanness of singling someone out by name in a public article on the Internet, which is what the comment here was primarily about.

And then the second level, which the commenter deliberately downplayed as a minor second point (but people here jumped on it...) that said person is a minority, so it makes one extra-suspicious about motives.

So I'm not sure where you got this "acting like race is about everything" point, because that wasn't in the comment.

[marknutter]

Let’s just never criticize anyone who isn’t white, and treat them like children. Racism is solved!

[biggc]

It's pretty unusual to publically throw someone under the bus by name like this in a professional name.

Given it's an unusual situation, people are reflecting on what makes this allegedly incompetent VP different from other incompetent VPs who aren't called out like this?

[cmrdporcupine]

What an amazing argument! So clever! You really got me there!

[DangitBobby]

Yes, they really did get you there. Things can be about things other than race, though you wouldn't be able to tell based on this comment thread.