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[–] 282 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Accusing a black woman of doing blackface is fucking weird.

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  • [–] 168 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

    Wait, so Obama is black because his father is black and now Harris isn't black even though her father is black? Do these idiots even hear themselves?

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  • [–] 75 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It feels like their rules are if your part minority, you're a minority (which is how society treats people). However, you can only be a maximum of one minority in each category. Harris can be a women, but she can't be both Indian and Black.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    I think it's more like they can't comprehend being half black if the other half is not white. Which really gives you some insight into what they think about everybody that isn't white. The Republican worldview on race is the same as their worldview on everything else: literally black and white.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    That seems to be the general thrust, but I have seen a few not-so-bright sparks suggest that Jamaicans aren't really black.

    I even saw one person suggest that the fact that she is descended from an Irish plantation owner means she can't be black. Which, gee, I wonder why a black person would be descended from a plantation owner?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Are you sure it was an Irish plantation owner? Most of the time Irish people in the Caribbean were working on plantations, not owning them. From what I've read, the person in question was a British person from Antrim - which is on the island of Ireland, but is part of the UK and was itself "plantationed" by Britain.

    It would be weird for example to refer to George Orwell as Indian, Louis Theroux as Singaporean or Duke Wellington as Irish - after all, "being born in a stable does not make one a horse" as the Duke put it when 'accused' of being Irish.

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    [–] 146 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    The four main MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris:

    1. She laughs.
    2. She hugs people.
    3. She's pretending to be black.
    4. She's black.
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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    You forgot that she's a woman

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    "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.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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

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    [–] 71 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    These conservative news are really struggling.

    Waiting for one to drop the N word.

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    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Yeah we all know being black is the fast track to being elected president.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago*

    Right wingers: she is strong and has a successful career. She can't be black.

    Everybody: that's weird

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  • [+] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)
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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    She went to a historic black college and joined a black sorority.... But sure, question her history on representing her black heritage

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    [–] 31 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

    -- Will Pierce

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Can the Republicans dig themselves any deeper.. There was some clown on Facebook that went over ancestry.. Like how long until you hit fascism?

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Newsmax will say anything to stay relevant, and their audience eats it up.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's always better than being orange

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How can she be mixed race? She would have spots, like a cow! /s

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    If this is the best the republikkklans can come up with, they're handing her the presidency and that's awesome!.

    VOTE!!!! Volunteer to give rides to those that couldn't vote without them.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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?

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Republicans try not to talk about Harris's race challenge (impossible)

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Always used to wonder where all the clowns went when the circuses disappeared

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