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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y. has been accused of suggesting minorities are incapable of successfully undergoing “standardized testing.”<\/p>\n
Bowman, a former middle school principal who earlier this month called testing “a pillar of systemic racism,” shared a political cartoon on Twitter Monday that depicts a row of animals in front of a tree. The animals include a bird, a monkey, a penguin, an elephant, a fish, a seal, and a dog.<\/p>\n
In front of them, a man sitting behind a desk tells the animals, “For a fair selection everybody has to take the same exam: please climb that tree.”<\/p>\n
“Our education system and the problem with standardized testing,” Bowman tweeted alongside the cartoon.<\/p>\n
Bowman’s tweet was widely blasted on social media, with some calling it “racist” and comparing it to rhetoric from White supremacist David Duke. <\/p>\n
“You’re suggesting different students given a standardized test are like … different species? Are you kidding me with this?” Atlantic staff writer Conor Friedersdorf asked.<\/p>\n
“The neo-racism of ‘anti-racism,'” journalist Bari Weiss reacted.<\/p>\n
“There are issues with standardized testing. This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, it,” New York Times journalist Jane Coaston wrote. <\/p>\n
“the woke spectrum: woke, extremely woke, ludicrously woke, alt-right,” writer Allahpundit reacted.<\/p>\n
“‘Asking a [B]lack person to pass a test is like asking a goldfish to climb a tree.’ Who said it: David Duke or Jamaal Bowman?” PJ Media columnist Jim Treacher tweeted.<\/p>\n
“Someone please explain to me how this isn’t the most racist thing they’ve seen on their feeds all day,” Washington Examiner commentator Tiana Lowe said.<\/p>\n