Journalism professor Jay Rosen is desperately trying to shift media perceptions that calling racist language/attitudes/policy out as racist is somehow “taking sides” …

One of the most important passages yet written about the problem of how to cover Trump. https://t.co/kx2gHf3gIF But even in sharing and praising it, I despair. Because I know that what @brianbeutler says here will be rejected by the people who most need to let it sink deeply in. pic.twitter.com/hihGGeqbgO

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 23, 2019

“That language is elusive now because to deploy it against Trump is to implicate millions of people who relish those very values … until Trump, they could still leave certain moral abominations outside the sphere of respectable discourse. Trump forces reporters, editors, commentators, to choose between the principle of neutrality and personal fidelity to the tenet that racism is unacceptable.”

There is going to have to come a moment when we as a society collectively say, ‘If you are a Trump supporter, you are a moral defective, a bad person. Like neo-Nazis or the Klan. Choose wisely, for we will remember.”