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  • @wjrii
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    3 months ago

    Dana Bash from CNN actually stating what should be obvious. Paraphrasing:

    We’re covering this because it’s racist. We’re talking about memes that say people of color will eat your pets. That’s racism.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      it’s also another time he might be mistaking an episode of King of the Hill for real life, like the low-flow toilet flushing… after all he did say “he saw people on TV” talking about it

    • @[email protected]
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      Feels like it’s more xenophobic. Obviously one assumes many of the referenced people are brown, but they are assumed poor too and we aren’t saying it’s classist. The thing that unites all of the people implicated in the claim is that they are foreigners.