• @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    319 months ago

    Who?

    Will Pierce. Who is this nobody? I mainly find Fox News and conservative think tanks on a quick search underlining how he’s some kind of GOP turncoat, and he doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. So some dude doesn’t like Harris.

    • @Ultraviolet@lemmy.world
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      89 months ago

      It’s a dog whistle to the racists who think the only thing worse than not being white is being mixed race. But they can’t just say that out loud, so they play dumb and go “how can she be both?”

  • Todd Bonzalez
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    “And you know what I’m very upset of?” Pierce added. “Let’s look at the little Black girl who dreams of being president of the United States in a few years.”

    “Kamala Harris is taking that title away just so she can sit here and try to win a voting bloc.”

    This is a weird fucking argument. Is he under the impression that if we elect a Black Woman that we won’t be allowed to do it again? That once we elect Kamala we’re obligated to return to an endless line of white men presidents?

    Or is he misspeaking here and saying that Kamala is stealing the title of “First Black Woman President” from some hypothetical little girl that deserves the “title” of First Black Woman President in like 20-30 years when she’s old enough to run for president (more like 50-60 years given the age of actual elected presidents)? Apparently we should keep voting against Black Women for the next few decades / half a century to save that covered title for some future Black Woman politician…

    All because they think that Jamaicans aren’t Black, because Black people can only come directly from Africa?

    They managed to cram a “save the children” argument, a dishonest idpol narrative, and overt racism into one argument. I’m as impressed with their efficiency as I am disgusted with their lack of humanity.

    • @800XL@lemmy.world
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      59 months ago

      Is there really a group of white people gatekeeping blackness?

      Is there really a group of white racial-purity supremecists stroking out and shitting themselves over black racial-purity and not being black enough?

      Who is their baseline for blackness?

      What the hell is even going on?

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      89 months ago

      Nope, just the one. Just the token black person so everyone knows we’re inclusive. We’re not allowed any others, ever again.

    • @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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      199 months ago

      Man it’s not just Trump. It seems all these right wing nuts really can’t grasp the concept of biracial identities. It just wooshes right past their head and they keep making this “fake black” argument cause she’s not 100% African blood. Which by the way was the thing they were demonizing Obama for having too much of, and demanded his birth certificate.

      They think if you’re born biracial you have to pick one race and stick with it lol

      • @CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        69 months ago

        It seems all these right wing nuts really can’t grasp the concept of biracial identities

        They understand, they just think this is a “dog whistle” instead of overt racism.

      • Todd Bonzalez
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        149 months ago

        I mean, obsession with racial purity is definitely not something the far-right is new to, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that this is how they think normal people discuss race…

  • @foggy@lemmy.world
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    79 months ago

    I cannot think of a more desperate attempt at being apart of a fascist crew lmoa fuck this turd

  • The Quuuuuill
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    79 months ago

    Newsmax actively ignores what its like to live in a race coded society as a minority because They’re only talking to people who haven’t lived as being in an oppressed minority. The ignorance is the point. They’ll say whatever shit will play with their white audience that will make them respect a candidate less.

  • Pasta Dental
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    719 months ago

    this coming from the haters of “cancel culture” is really funny and weird

    • Gloomy
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      19 months ago

      I know we don’t do I objective viewpoints point on here, but there is a difference between thinking that it is okay to do blackface in the context of a movie or a play and accusing Harris of pretending to be black.

      I don’t agree with either of those points, but it’s silly to pretend they are the same.

      • Pasta Dental
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        29 months ago

        My comment wasn’t about how it is ok or not, just at the fact that it’s the republicans trying to cancel someone when all they do constantly is talk about cancel culture

    • @Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
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      89 months ago

      Projection. Always projection. Remember that the House Un-American Activities Committee was all about canceling people for alleged Wrong Think.

  • mad_asshatter
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    African
    Song by Peter Tosh

    Don’t care where you come from
    As long as you’re a black man
    You’re an African
    No mind your nationality
    You have got the identity of an African

    'Cause if you come from Clarendon
    And if you come from Portland
    And if you come from Westmoreland
    You’re an African

    No mind your nationality
    You’ve got the identity of an African

    'Cause if you come Trinidad
    And if you come from Nassau
    And if you come from Cuba
    You’re an African

    No mind your complexion
    There is no rejection
    You’re an African

    'Cause if your plexion
    High If your complexion low, low, low
    And if your plexion in between
    You’re an African

    No mind denomination
    That is only segregation
    You’re an African

    Cause if you go to the Catholic
    And if you go to the Methodist
    And if you go to the Church of Gods
    You’re an African

    No mind your nationality
    You have got the identity of an African

    'Cause if you come from Brixton
    And if you come from Weesday
    And if you come from Wingstead
    And if you come from France
    …Brooklyn
    …Queens
    …Manhattan
    …Canada
    …Miami
    …Switzerland
    …Germany
    …Russia
    …Taiwan

  • irotsoma
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    149 months ago

    So…people are only black if their family came directly to America from Africa? Being enslaved in other countries first means they aren’t black?

    And if you’re mixed-race, and you don’t count as being any of those races?

    And no mixed race person should become president because you’re taking away the chance for a single race person to be the first of that race to be president? And I think they forgot there was already a black president. Or are they saying the first woman president should be white so they don’t take away the ability for a white person to be the first woman president since black people already got a first?

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      59 months ago

      I just facepalm every time someone says, “but her dad is from Jamaica!” Like slavery didn’t exist there.

    • AbsentBird
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      159 months ago

      Was Obama the first black president? He’s half white, I don’t remember which race he picked on mixed race choosing day.

      • Flying Squid
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        119 months ago

        Kamala Harris’ father is black but her mother isn’t, therefore she isn’t black.

        Thus:

        Bracka Obama’s father is black, but her mother isn’t, therefore he isn’t black.

        And we need to make sure Republicans know that Obama is white for the same reason Harris isn’t black from now on.

  • mad_asshatter
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    309 months ago

    “The only blacks in this photo finish are the two Americans.”

    – Will Pierce

    • @daniyeg@lemmy.ml
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      19 months ago

      that Jamaican’s silver was brutal ngl got a little bit sad watching his confused reaction.

    • Flying Squid
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      29 months ago

      If you took that image entirely out of context, as if you don’t know that they’re running a race, it’s pretty amusing.