From our Credit Where Credit is Due Department: MSNBC host Chris Hayes surprisingly conceded on his All In show that a third of Hillary Clinton's voters could be tossed into her "basket of deplorables" along with half of Donald Trump's voters.

As Newsbusters reports, Hayes and guest Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic were acknowledging that Hillary's offensive claim against Trump voters had "merit" when Hayes then pointed out that, according to a Reuters online poll from earlier in the year, a large percentage of Clinton supporters also hold views on race that by his standards would be considered "racist." The poll found that while 49 percent of Trump voters admitted to believing that blacks are more violent than whites, 31 percent of Clinton voters also answered in the affirmative on the same question.

"So here's my question to you," Hayes posed, "so I was watching this play out, right? And we just showed the stat, right? This view to me that I think is just sort of textbook racism, "blacks are more violent that whites," right? Classically racist."

Coates agreed: "It's just racist."

Well, that depends. To say blacks are inherently more violent than whites might be racist, but it is fact, not racism, to point out that blacks commit a grossly disproportionate percentage of violent crimes in this country. But to the left, such inconvenient facts themselves are racist.

Hayes continued:

It's just racist. Okay. But here's the thing about that, right? So people -- all these people tweeting -- there it is, 49 percent (of Donald Trump supporters). But 31 percent of Clinton supporters. So then we're like -- then we're getting pretty deep into, "What do we mean by this word 'deplorable'?" And who gets to point the finger at whom?

Coates began his response with a pretense of fairness, then went on to simply blame "white America," as if "white America" is a unified, single-minded bloc -- itself a racist statement:

That would have been a great article to read. I mean, I'm all for that. You certainly can say, you know, "Hey, you know, she was accurate, but you know what, she might also want to look in her backyard." That's certainly fair. But what people did is entirely avoid the subject because I think, even the fact that, say, if you have half of Trump supporters, you have 30 percent of Clinton supporters, this is a broad swath of white America.

He continued: "And see, that is really the reason why the conversation doesn't, you know, need to, you don't have to take Hillary Clinton's side to look at the merits of that."

So to the racist Coates, who has become wealthy and famous complaining about white American racism, it's unnecessary to delve into how many Hillary supporters are racist because, hey, let's stay focused on Trump's people, and all whites are racist anyway.