My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.
I wonder what the person who absolutely insisted to me yesterday that this wasn’t about black people in general would have to say about this…
My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.
I wonder what the person who absolutely insisted to me yesterday that this wasn’t about black people in general would have to say about this…
I appreciate. You trying to chase what’s real instead of going straight to pitchforks. I think that’s important, and it’s a problem because people are so outrage-addicted.
In this case, though., I don’t agree at all. It absolutely sounds and looks like an N to me. And I think it’s plausible that it really was either a slipup or a really intentionally bad dogwhistle. It’s EXTREMELY plausible to me that he is very racist.
But I’m not an expert.
Maybe he’s racist, I have no idea. But wouldn’t the far simpler route for a racist be to just keep engaging with the bullshit story and encourage the despicable racist acts that are already happening? A dog whistle by definition is subtle, coded. This isn’t that.