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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The archive link is a little broken, but still readable if you put in some effort https://web.archive.org/web/20240714025310/https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaunharper/2024/07/13/will-surviving-gunfire-be-donald-trumps-next-appeal-to-black-voters/

Looks like it was well meaning. But it's possibly the most unintentionally racist thing I've read this year, and boy that headline is a spicy one. It almost reads as an Onion article.

The writer calls themselves a "diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) expert" which feels ironic, as that would be the person I'd suggest review articles like this before publish.

"And the Blacks, they love me because they know the terrifying sound of gunshots," isn't a claim that Trump has actually made.

I found this bit particularly hilarious, it really captures the Trump spirit. Which is the writer's point, it's too easy to imagine this in Trump's voice

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everyone:

Forbes: Hey, do you know what do Trump and a black person have in common? If they're both alive is just because a white person's bad aim!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's the point.

That's the author's entire point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Well if you put it that way, no.

Don't try to put it another way either.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have my doubts that many black voters think trump and say:

what a guy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I will always upvote a Red Dwarf reference

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

Not a lot, but more than you'd think. Something on the order of 15-30% of black voters support him, from my memory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden is winning black voters 64% to 13% in this poll that has a crazy amount of Kennedy voters https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/07/11/amid-doubts-about-bidens-mental-sharpness-trump-leads-presidential-race/

But that's bad because he won 87% to 12% in 2020.

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

Yes, Biden is winning black voters. But considering Trump's entire vibe of catering to white supremacists, it's supposing he has much support at all.

I think you think we're arguing, but we're not?

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

I wasn't arguing. Just bringing the relevant polling to the table. 30% black support would be a landslide election for a Republican. 13% when he won 12% in 2020 doesn't even seem worth remarking upon. So I think that's an important distinction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I know that black voters for Trump exist. But so do bots.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Fuckin yikes!

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