In the full version of the video snipped in Trump's post, Obama was portayed as an ape, not a monkey. Biden was portrayed as a monkey. Trump was portrayed as an animal dumber than both Biden and Obama, as a lion.
Obama and his wife were the smartest animals portrayed in the entire video, including smarter than all the white people animals portrayed, as members of the apes.
...and look at some comments here, every day I get confirmation that Trump supporters will defend everything, there's no coming back.
Thankfully they are <40% of US voters now. Yes, that's a depressingly large number but having a ~40% core group of MAGA and everyone else being thoroughly disgusted by Trump means the bottom is falling out for Republicans.
Recent Texas Senate election (SD-9) saw Democrats winning by 17 points (Republicans won the district in 2022 by 60-40). Abolishing ICE is now the more popular opinion (46 to 43 in some poll).
We'll see how much damage the beast will inflict before it's finally slain.
Sure, for instance, SCOTUS justice RBG once wrote a minority opinion in Rice v Cayetano that it is OK to ban certain races from voting in certain public elections. Obviously, RBG was a flaming racist and thankfully her opinion was overruled.
So yes I would say people like Ruth Ginsburg who didn't believe in the 15th amendment allowing equal voting rights with regards to race, are racists.
This was an indigenous people treaty case, and when mothballed says "certain public elections" they mean "a single election for a position in Hawaii which was established in negotiations with indigenous Hawaiians in the 1970s. Not, however, a treaty obligation.
I don't know that I agree with RGB here, but I don't find that to be a racist opinion.
I love it. A video depicting both white and black people as non-human primates is more racist than literally using the might of the state to try and block excluded races from voting for a public office.
This is part of the reason why the nominally anti-racist zealots are losing the battle. We want to live in a world where it's actually considered racist to exclude races in a public election, rather than one where it's not racist to exclude races from a public election but somehow more racist to post a multi-racial video depicting whites and others as non-human animals.
Would you say a 25 year old opinion by a single dead Supreme Court justice is more damaging to your supposed platform than voter ID laws, gerrymandering, and the attack on vote by mail?
No, it just is the most direct obvious example I can find of high level assistance in violating the 15th amendment since the year 2000. I have no doubt all of your examples have also been used to effectuate the same thing, they just have a little more plausible deniability to the point it's harder to point out in black and white.
I was not asked to contemplate every example of racism.
The ID bit is particularly amusing to look at. In my state you need an ID to vote but not to conceal carry a gun. In Illinois it's the exact opposite, with a lot of handwaving why you need an ID to prove you are a 'person' but not a 'citizen'. Obviously the states and government are totally inconsistent on the issue of ID to exercise rights.
Mail voting might be more prejudicial to the poor with irregular addresses, since their only option is to vote in person whereas those better off with regular mail access can vote via mail or in person.
Overall I would take a stab that both mail voting and ID requirements yield a net slight prejudice against some minorities. Gerrymandering is just dog-shit all around.
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” ~Maya Angelou
This isn't even the first time Republicans portrayed Obama as a monkey. It was kind of a low-hanging meme for them during his presidency.
In the full version of the video snipped in Trump's post, Obama was portayed as an ape, not a monkey. Biden was portrayed as a monkey. Trump was portrayed as an animal dumber than both Biden and Obama, as a lion.
Obama and his wife were the smartest animals portrayed in the entire video, including smarter than all the white people animals portrayed, as members of the apes.
trump has deleted the racist post showing the obamas as apes, which leaves karoline leavitt out to dry for defending it to the hilt earlier.
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2orsuabrdskjpuglpru77po2/po...
BBC report on the disappearing video.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8r8y78g10o
This is one of those moments you realize all of the Overton Window talk is not partisan nor alarmism.
This is how they play with the dog-whistle.
Let it be out long enough for the white supremacists to notice and then apologize.
Is it really a dog whistle? Dog megaphone. Or maybe dog stadium PA.
It seems like Trump tries very hard to associate himself with things racists do/like, etc.
...and look at some comments here, every day I get confirmation that Trump supporters will defend everything, there's no coming back.
Thankfully they are <40% of US voters now. Yes, that's a depressingly large number but having a ~40% core group of MAGA and everyone else being thoroughly disgusted by Trump means the bottom is falling out for Republicans.
Recent Texas Senate election (SD-9) saw Democrats winning by 17 points (Republicans won the district in 2022 by 60-40). Abolishing ICE is now the more popular opinion (46 to 43 in some poll).
We'll see how much damage the beast will inflict before it's finally slain.
It’s always a distraction. Look behind the curtain.
Can you please clarify this statement? It could mean a lot of things.
Trump posts video of Obama as an ape
Internet: "It is 4D chess!"
You can't make this up.
Anyone else doing this would be instant political suicide. For Trump, it's just another regular weekday.
Obama wore a tan suit and people went nuts.
Not just that, his base loves it. This is the stuff that gets them energized.
"I have met some very bad people, none as bad as Trump. not one decent cell in his body..."
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Wow, is there anything you wouldn’t work so hard to justify? Can you reference anything you perceive as racist?
Sure, for instance, SCOTUS justice RBG once wrote a minority opinion in Rice v Cayetano that it is OK to ban certain races from voting in certain public elections. Obviously, RBG was a flaming racist and thankfully her opinion was overruled.
So yes I would say people like Ruth Ginsburg who didn't believe in the 15th amendment allowing equal voting rights with regards to race, are racists.
Look at all those details omitted!
This was an indigenous people treaty case, and when mothballed says "certain public elections" they mean "a single election for a position in Hawaii which was established in negotiations with indigenous Hawaiians in the 1970s. Not, however, a treaty obligation.
I don't know that I agree with RGB here, but I don't find that to be a racist opinion.
I love it. A video depicting both white and black people as non-human primates is more racist than literally using the might of the state to try and block excluded races from voting for a public office.
This is part of the reason why the nominally anti-racist zealots are losing the battle. We want to live in a world where it's actually considered racist to exclude races in a public election, rather than one where it's not racist to exclude races from a public election but somehow more racist to post a multi-racial video depicting whites and others as non-human animals.
Would you say a 25 year old opinion by a single dead Supreme Court justice is more damaging to your supposed platform than voter ID laws, gerrymandering, and the attack on vote by mail?
No, it just is the most direct obvious example I can find of high level assistance in violating the 15th amendment since the year 2000. I have no doubt all of your examples have also been used to effectuate the same thing, they just have a little more plausible deniability to the point it's harder to point out in black and white.
I was not asked to contemplate every example of racism.
The ID bit is particularly amusing to look at. In my state you need an ID to vote but not to conceal carry a gun. In Illinois it's the exact opposite, with a lot of handwaving why you need an ID to prove you are a 'person' but not a 'citizen'. Obviously the states and government are totally inconsistent on the issue of ID to exercise rights.
Mail voting might be more prejudicial to the poor with irregular addresses, since their only option is to vote in person whereas those better off with regular mail access can vote via mail or in person.
Overall I would take a stab that both mail voting and ID requirements yield a net slight prejudice against some minorities. Gerrymandering is just dog-shit all around.
> I was not asked to contemplate every example of racism.
I mean quite clearly you were responding literally to a commenter's disbelief that you think the video didn't intentionally use racist imagery.
So you could have not chosen any example. Or one that is relevant to the current state of the world, even if it hides behind a mask of legitimacy.
Anyway, I imagine if RBG were here she'd probably have something to say on response but I can't think of anything that is more of a non-controversy.
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