Wearing a MAGA Hat While Black

[Brainster]

Sounds like the anti-Trump folks include quite a few racists:

"Her finger was literally on top of his head, we were all looking at her like 'what is happening?'" one witness told The Daily Wire. "She was pointing at him, calling her other coworkers, telling them to look at this guy wearing a Make America Great Again hat."

At that point, approximately a dozen or so employees approached the table and began making comments about the hat, with some saying they wanted to punch Joseph in the face. Witnesses also allege that some of the employees also referred to him as a "

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" in their conversations among each other.

(note to mods: that is how the "n" word is spelled in the article; I am not trying to get around the autocensor).

Yeah, if you ever want to see the 'ever-so-tolerant' Left reveal their true racist nature, just check out how they react to black Republicans. Even the white ones think it is quite all right to refer to them as "house *******," as race traitors, etc.

 

[ponderingturtle]

Or LGBT republicans, at least they know that LGBT really do not deserve right and vote against them. Their own status does not prevent them from taking a stand against their own rights.

 

[mikado]

Sounds like the anti-Trump folks include quite a few racists:


(note to mods: that is how the "n" word is spelled in the article; I am not trying to get around the autocensor).

Yeah, if you ever want to see the 'ever-so-tolerant' Left reveal their true racist nature, just check out how they react to black Republicans. Even the white ones think it is quite all right to refer to them as "house *******," as race traitors, etc.

How the hell does that have any thing to do with politics?
What's this whole American obsession with left and right?
It's just ignorant poeple.

How about not spending all your time attempting to forment hatred unnecessarily?

 

[ponderingturtle]

How the hell does that have any thing to do with politics?
What's this whole American obsession with left and right?
It's just ignorant poeple.

How about not spending all your time attempting to forment hatred unnecessarily?

In this case it is being viewed as voting against your own interests and against the promotion of your own rights. Like how gay republicans are now all whinny that no one else wants to have sex with them for voting for trump, merely with how he supports Mike Pence and his history of promoting HIV and war on the LGBT community.

 

[applecorped]

Well obviously he's an Uncle Tom

 

[applecorped]

How the hell does that have any thing to do with politics?
What's this whole American obsession with left and right?
It's just ignorant poeple.

How about not spending all your time attempting to forment hatred unnecessarily?

It's foment , and you're wrong.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Progressives you can't wear the "Figure out what term to call liberal white guilt this week in another attempt to bring it back" and the "We know when minorities are being disadvantaged better than they do white man's burden" hats at the same time.

 

[uke2se]

Is the point of this thread "progressives are racists too"?

If so, yes. There are plenty of racist progressives, exhibiting various degrees of racism. I know that I carry certain biases. The difference - of course - is that progressives normally vote for political parties actively working against racism, while conservatives vote for parties that actively work to promote racism.

 

[Brainster]

Is the point of this thread "progressives are racists too"?

If so, yes. There are plenty of racist progressives, exhibiting various degrees of racism. I know that I carry certain biases. The difference - of course - is that progressives normally vote for political parties actively working against racism, while conservatives vote for parties that actively work to promote racism.

Ergo a black man supporting Trump is a race traitor, amiright?

 

[sir drinks-a-lot]

There are plenty of racist progressives, exhibiting various degrees of racism. I know that I carry certain biases.

Ain't that the truth!

 

[JoeMorgue]

Is the point of this thread "progressives are racists too"?

If so, yes. There are plenty of racist progressives, exhibiting various degrees of racism. I know that I carry certain biases. The difference - of course - is that progressives normally vote for political parties actively working against racism, while conservatives vote for parties that actively work to promote racism.

"Racist" is too much of a dogwhistle term, a hand grenade to launch into a discussions.

If we accept that we disagree about the exact mentality and practical application of race without it turning into a who's more racist than who game, than yes I disagree with how some progressives feel about race in some context.

 

[Mumbles]

Is the point of this thread "progressives are racists too"?

If so, yes. There are plenty of racist progressives, exhibiting various degrees of racism. I know that I carry certain biases. The difference - of course - is that progressives normally vote for political parties actively working against racism, while conservatives vote for parties that actively work to promote racism.

First, what race are these guys calling him "the N-word"? Much like women who call each other "bitch" or "heifer", or friendly gay guys who call each other "fag", this absolutely does make a difference. I use the first term, but none of the other three (and I also steer far away from phrases like "redneck" or "white trash"). For that matter, I never used "the N-word" around my grandfather - who was born in 1900 and raised in North Carolina. It's called context. I don't care if it's younger black people - and younger Hispanic folks sometimes get a pass as well, really.

Second - yes, that isn't how to treat a customer, regardless. The threats and intimidation is wrong, regardless of the fact that he supports a white supremacist president. Are some progressives/liberals racist? I've got stories on that one. Does that mean I consider any MAGAt to be a friend? Nope. DOn't consider any David Duke, Jared Taylor, or Richard Spencer fan to be a friend, either. It's not being republican, it's supporting white supremacism that I find untrustworthy on a basic, self-protection level.

 

[mgidm86]

Ergo a black man supporting Trump is a race traitor, amiright?

Looks up thread: apparently someone here thinks so!

"So then all the employees started standing there, saying things out loud, like, 'I'm going to knock his head in so hard his hat's going to come off," the witness continued.

"He got behind me and another coworker came by and they were staring at each other and he fist bumped him and then he started looking at me, balling his fists, smacking his fists, trying to scare me," Joseph told The Daily Wire.

"I got up and went to the restroom, my girlfriend followed me, and as we were walking back, a group of [the employees] came out from the back and they just started clapping and yelling, and just screaming things at me," Joseph says.

The Daily Wire viewed multiple video clips and photos that validate the claims made by the witnesses about the ......

Another video reviewed by The Daily Wire showed a young girl crying at the table, afraid of the hostile environment created by The Cheesecake Factory employees.

This crap's getting worse all the time. They've got us finger pointing and name calling each other rather than the real scumbags sitting in DC.

But hey if other black people are calling him a

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and threatening to beat him, no problem. It's because he's supporting a racist white supremacist something rather so it's totally okay. Haha f'n hilarious.

 

[Brainster]

First, what race are these guys calling him "the N-word"? Much like women who call each other "bitch" or "heifer", or friendly gay guys who call each other "fag", this absolutely does make a difference. I use the first term, but none of the other three (and I also steer far away from phrases like "redneck" or "white trash"). For that matter, I never used "the N-word" around my grandfather - who was born in 1900 and raised in North Carolina. It's called context. I don't care if it's younger black people - and younger Hispanic folks sometimes get a pass as well, really.

I think we can all agree that any of those terms are offensive automatically if they are said in anger, and not in a spirit of camaraderie, even if they are spoken by a fellow group member.

 

[Checkmite]

Racism has its biggest home by far in the GOP; but there are still any number of left-leaning racists, just as there are any number of left-leaning misogynists (remember the "Bernie Bros" debacle).

That said, I'm a little frustrated at this article; it cites several videos of the incident taken by witnesses, but unusually, it doesn't link to a single one and I'm having trouble locating any on my own. This news report:



...features a video clip but it appears to have been taken after the incident and doesn't show any of the happenings or perpetrators. It also features a soundbyte from a conservative radio host complaining about what she describes as most African-Americans' hostile attitudes toward Trump-supporting black people, which makes me wonder whether the incident really does depict any white people hurling any racial epithets at the person (or about the person) as the OP seems to contend. The news report also quotes the official police report which paints the incident in a decidedly more tepid light than the Daily Wire article does, making me wish I had access to those video clips even more.

 

[Brainster]

Racism has its biggest home by far in the GOP; but there are still any number of left-leaning racists, just as there are any number of left-leaning misogynists (remember the "Bernie Bros" debacle).

That said, I'm a little frustrated at this article; it cites several videos of the incident taken by witnesses, but unusually, it doesn't link to a single one and I'm having trouble locating any on my own. This news report:



...features a video clip but it appears to have been taken after the incident and doesn't show any of the happenings or perpetrators. It also features a soundbyte from a conservative radio host complaining about what she describes as most African-Americans' hostile attitudes toward Trump-supporting black people, which makes me wonder whether the incident really does depict any white people hurling any racial epithets at the person (or about the person) as the OP seems to contend. The news report also quotes the official police report which paints the incident in a decidedly more tepid light than the Daily Wire article does, making me wish I had access to those video clips even more.

Yeah, I spent some time looking for YT video of the actual event (not people yakking about it) and came up empty too. The story linked in my OP mentions that the website has viewed several videos--so they should link to those videos!

 

[uke2se]

Ergo a black man supporting Trump is a race traitor, amiright?

???

That would be an incredibly racist way of putting it.

 

[uke2se]

Double post.

 

[ponderingturtle]

"Racist" is too much of a dogwhistle term, a hand grenade to launch into a discussions.

Race is to much of a dogwhistle loaded term to ever bring up either, because if you imply someones policies/actions explicitly disadvantage a race you are going to blow up the discussion.

We are a post racial society in that it is now officially impossible to talk about.

 

[Trakar]

Ergo a black man supporting Trump is a race traitor, amiright?

I wouldn't consider anyone a "race traitor," primarily as I consider "race" to largely be a made up term (without much scientific rigor or merit) seemingly invented to stand in for culturally different and other than my "tribe." I consider darker-skinned idiots voting for Trump to be little different than the lighter-skinned idiots who voted for Trump. Idiots are idiots regardless of the skin tone that shades their waste of human potential.