• @inclementimmigrant
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    3 months ago

    I find it amazing that people, and mostly journalist, still think he’s confused by this when he’s clearly just being racist by trying to play Indian Americans against African Americans while feeding his base bigotry they’ve crave.

    • @stochasticity
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      63 months ago

      Feeding his base absolutely. However to my mind it’s selling Asian and black Americans short to think they will take Trump’s comments and be upset with one another rather than with trump himself.

      • @grue
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        33 months ago

        However to my mind it’s selling Asian and black Americans short to think they will take Trump’s comments and be upset with one another rather than with trump himself.

        Well, yeah. Trump’s the one who thinks it’s a good strategy, not @inclementimmigrant.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    203 months ago

    To be fair, it must be a very difficult concept for him to comprehend. After all, he’s a pure-blood orange asshole.

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months ago

    You have to explain a similar concept to him in terms he can understand.

    Donald, it’s similar to how you were born an American, but now you’re working for Russia.

    • ddh
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      33 months ago

      It’s like how you’re white AND orange

    • geekwithsoul
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      133 months ago

      While you are correct in that there is no scientific methodology for identifying race, as long as people think and act like there is - and use the concept to oppress others - it’s less than helpful to deny people’s lived experience and say “this is all imaginary”

      • @stochasticity
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        53 months ago

        Yes, but to give the commentator the benefit of the doubt I think they mean it’s a social construct.

    • @Dkarma
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      33 months ago

      Nah man, you pink

    • Doug HollandOPM
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      13 months ago

      Well, yeah, in the same sense that all pain is psychosomatic.