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'Black Americans for Trump' event a 'major bust' that featured 'a sea of white people' (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Serious question;

Am I over-thinking it to be skeeved out by the phrase "blacks" for Trump?

It's basically saying that their main defining characteristic as a group is their colour rather than anything about who they are culturally.

It would be like a politician here in Canada courting the indigenous vote by holding a rally called "Reds for Pollieve" or something.

I don't see that really being talked about or mentioned and wonder am I just over-thinking it? Or is it just that it's just one more fucked up thing that gets buried under a dozen other fucked up things...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No you're right the whole thing is a sick joke.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You are right. Turning an adjective into a noun tends to make it more degrading because you've focused on the characteristic rather than the person. That's why referring to people as "blacks" or "females" feels icky. It's why we saw "deaf people" and not "the deafs" or "old people" and not "the olds."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

But the only reason we don't talk about the poors that way is because we can legally destroy where they sleep and run them out of town :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Those Olds really are fucking things up around here tho

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How is it possible to be a member of the pre-civil-rights generation of white people and be so oblivious as to

DON A SHIRT that says in huge letters "Blacks for Trump"
Wear it in public
To an event ostensibly targeted to black people
Willingly pose for a picture wearing it with no black people in evidence except those laughing at you or giving you the side eye from a distance.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's simple: they never stopped being racist, they just try to not say it out loud anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

But oh how they want to, and they'll vote for the guy they think will make it so they can say it and have everybody think they're cool again.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lead poisoning is known to make people dumber and angrier. It seems the boomers got the bulk of the lead poisoning in America. To me, this explains the behavior you're talking about 🤷. I have no other theories. I think they're all just brain dead from lead poisoning dude.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I have genuinely thought this for years.

I originally thought that generational bullshit is stupid and, without any other influence, each generation is really the same as the last and the changes only really happen within the society itself. So I always thought it was stupid when people would say, "X generation is the dumbest!"

But then I realized that Boomers were hit with both massively spread lead poisoning and swaths of radiation through especially Midwest America throughout their developmental periods that it is fair enough to say that, should there be such thing as the "Dumbest Generation," it would likely be the Boomers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Plus, a lot of them got Covid without a vacchine and that disease attacks your nervous system and can shave of between 3 to 6 IQ points with each infection. So they are likely even dumber now than they were before Covid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

In retail it's always boomers losing their shit about almost nothing, and being 40 now, I recall the past 30 years pretty well, and there were also recipts with coupons, you had to pay cash and using a CC or Debit was a curtesy you couldn't expect, banks gave you cards and pin numbers, but NOW they can't handle it. At all.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why do these MAGA supporters always look like melted candles?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Being maga drains away all humanity

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's how old people look.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No man, it’s not.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's dumb

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Brought to you by 23 and Me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I didn't understand this connection

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I also missed the joke, but after Monkey with a Shell explained it I think it's honestly hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Something about 'I had a test done and it says I'm .000025 % black' would be my guess. Kind of like the folks that get all worked up about St. Patrick's Day because some long lost relative once visited Ireland.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes we find inspiration where we least expect it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No coincidence background "patriot" wears the Deutsche Reichsflagge (Black / White / Red) as a sweater?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So not Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or even Trinidad and Tobago, it must be a flag from nearly a century ago, if you squint real hard, and ignore the extra stripes and the fact they're vertical instead of horizontal. It certainly can't be because of the esthetics of broad vertical stripes and that black and white go with anything, meaning you only have to coordinate with one color. Nah, that's unreasonable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I said anything to ridicule these poor MAGA people

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Go with the legitimate criticisms. There are many, even in the clothing choices.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I did. Your speculation is as good as mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not speculating at all. I'm pointing our how much of a reach your speculation is. We can't even be sure they're there for Trump's talk. That looks like a convention center, they could be there for something else. I tried to find the location this was taken, but I'm not finding it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well I happened to be there as a journalist from the EU and actually tried to interview this person because she caught my attention when she gave out free replicas of SS-Ehrenring rings to the other attendants. Just instead of the skull her rings had a small Trump head. She declined my interview request because, as she put it, I looked like I was “unwertes Leben”.

So you should be really careful with your speculation and probably stick to your manga and anime, dum-dum!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

speculation

You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But you’re not sure? Can you ask Naruto to confirm?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

First, your juvenile ad hominems and wild speculation, not to mention your poor use of language incline me to believe you aren't a journalist, or at least a journalist that I'm not inclined to think worth reading. But feel free to prove me wrong. Where would I find this article in which you drop pearls of wisdom for the unwashed masses such as myself? Did you get pictures of these earrings that she was handing out? Did she refuse to even let you get pictures, and convince the other recipients of her goods to also shield them from your unworthy focus? And please, don't tell me you don't want to advertise your professional work, or that of your peers. You already mentioned it.

Also, I haven't watched Naruto, but you apparently haven't seen The Princess Bride.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You need to be more concise. First rule of journalist school.
Have you ever tried the hentai? That stuff really gets your juices flowin‘!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't pretend to be a journalist. I hear presenting facts is also important, and you have yet to do that despite your claims.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But I can’t take you seriously so I can’t be bothered?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

But I'm not just talking to you, I'm also talking to the other people viewing this thread. Just like how it's laughable to say you can't be bothered to prove your dubious claims after engaging in communication about a subject half a dozen times over 2 days. The liklier conclusion is that they are as reasonable as your first - possibly true, but no substantive proof given.

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