Is Sheldon Whitehouse a Racist or an Anti-racist?
This defense of Sheldon Whitehouses membership in an all-white beach club is doing the rounds:  Sheldon Whitehouse has been a fighter for racial and economic justice his whole life. Full stop.  David Cicilline (@davidcicilline) June 22, 2021  Whitehouses spokesman has offered a similar line, contending that the senator has dedicated his entire career to promoting equity and protecting civil rights, as his record shows.  A good number of people have pushed back against these retorts by pointing out that they are little more than do as I say not as I do arguments that give those with the correct political beliefs a standing exemption from judgment. And, of course, they are precisely that. What David Cicilline and others are doing for Sheldon Whitehouse here 