Democratic politicians continue to obey an utterly bizarre impulse to infantilize black people while trying to support them, and it somehow has not spawned any introspection in the party.

On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) claimed that there are “black kids growing up in the Bronx who don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is.” That ludicrous statement led to an apology where Hochul claims she was actually talking about how black children “lack access to the technology needed to get on track to high-paying jobs in emerging industries like AI.”

It is quite a jump from the idea that black people are behind when it comes to landing high-end technology jobs to “black kids don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is,” but that was Hochul’s first instinct while lobbying for more “diversity.” But this is normal for Democrats on other issues, an insulting trend that stems from the race-obsessed brain rot that controls the Democratic Party.

Voter ID laws are where this is most obvious. Democratic politicians routinely imply that black people are simply incapable of acquiring IDs when it comes to voting despite the fact that IDs are needed to drive, buy alcohol, open bank accounts, and rent or buy a home, among other things. (A 2015 study found that 87% of black people had government IDs, compared to 90% of Hispanics and 95% of white people).

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Democratic support of affirmative action, now 60 years after the Civil Rights Act, indicates that they do not believe black people are capable of getting into universities or getting good jobs without those prizes being handed to them. California Democrats think racism against nonblack people is the only way to help black people in multiple aspects of life. If Democratic politicians think as little of black people as Hochul does when claiming black children have never heard of computers, it isn’t hard to see why they keep concluding that only they know best.

This bizarre impulse is clearly racist by any evaluation. Banning voter ID and other tame election security measures for being “racist” is the legislative equivalent to baby-proofing a house, with the obvious issue being that black people are not babies who need to be protected from voter ID laws. That same thought process is behind Hochul’s first idea to “help” black people in technology being to disparage black children’s intelligence. This is what happens when you make racism, or what the Left calls “anti-racism,” which is the same thing, a guiding ideological principle.