During a SCOTUS confirmation hearing earlier this week, GOP Sen. John Kennedy referred to self-proclaimed “antiracist” BU Professor Ibram X. Kendi — who managed to find the racism inherent in white people adopting black children — as “some butthead professor at Boston University”:

As Amy Coney Barrett correctly points out, they are cruel.

But for Kendi, the real cruelty is pointing out that he’s a butthead. Which may have something to do with why he’s so triggered by Sen. Kennedy’s remarks here:

Here’s Kendi’s take on Sen. Kennedy pointing out that bogus charges of racism can be very destructive:

Seems to us that Dr. Kendi’s the one trapped in the destructive cycle here.

But there’s plenty racist about Ibram X. Kendi.