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Gillum is the Truth!
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Hm...does that mean you will be voting for him for president?
Isn't that a requirement? If we dont require that we end up with...
Oh the horrors if that happened. Why saudia arabia would cut off the oil, iran would take hostages and we would be drowned in a revival of DISCO and ford pintos would be our econo car. OMG we cannot have an honest president it will ruin us.
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Epic Beard Man
Bearded Philosopher
What lie was that? How did you come to the conclusion it was a lie?
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Ha! The joke's on you. He's not running for president...
WalterTrull
Godfella
Someone told me that they heard it from a friend that Gillium was bl*ck. I mean I'm sure he's not, or at least not any more. That would be political suicide!
sealchan
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Here is a term I made up not too long ago...
Implicit racism - Racism stemming from beliefs and statements in the public arena which might be sincerely understood to not have anything to do with racism by the speaker, but which due to historic usage send a clear signal to pro- or anti- racial individuals knowledgable of that history.
DeSantis' entanglement with a racist Facebook page is a case in point...I believe that DeSantis may not have known about his name on a Facebook page with sexist and racist content. The group claimed to be Tea Party which made it a conservative group and maybe someone delegated by DeSantis made a decision that DeSantis later controverted. But this goes to show that in the conservative world there is a great deal of explicit and implicit racism. The explicit racists support conservative candidates who are not explicitly racist because of the huge overlap in implicitly racist policies that they support.
Border policy is a strong indicator of implicit racism although I believe that many people might actually think that our borders are practically unsecure.
Some voting policies are a strong indicator given their disproportionate impact on minorities although I believe that many people might actually think that or election results are being tampered with.
The only way to learn about these implicit issues is to be open to the idea and then study them once you become aware of them. Before making a voting decision, give 15 minutes of your time to read about where the claim to racism enters in to a debate that might not seem to be about race to you from your perspective.
Its a big world out there and ignorance is becoming less and less of an excuse. Its not political correctness that you can dismiss from liberals, its basic human decency in a pluralistic, democratic society. No one is asking you for the moon, just some modest level of empathy and decency.
Now if a candidate like DeSantis says "monkey it up" and later learns that this is offensive to a certain segment of the population, all he has to do is apologize and acknowledge the offense and say, "lesson learned". But if he doesn't do this and just denies he meant it as racist, then whose vote is he courting?
Implicit racism - Racism stemming from beliefs and statements in the public arena which might be sincerely understood to not have anything to do with racism by the speaker, but which due to historic usage send a clear signal to pro- or anti- racial individuals knowledgable of that history.
DeSantis' entanglement with a racist Facebook page is a case in point...I believe that DeSantis may not have known about his name on a Facebook page with sexist and racist content. The group claimed to be Tea Party which made it a conservative group and maybe someone delegated by DeSantis made a decision that DeSantis later controverted. But this goes to show that in the conservative world there is a great deal of explicit and implicit racism. The explicit racists support conservative candidates who are not explicitly racist because of the huge overlap in implicitly racist policies that they support.
Border policy is a strong indicator of implicit racism although I believe that many people might actually think that our borders are practically unsecure.
Some voting policies are a strong indicator given their disproportionate impact on minorities although I believe that many people might actually think that or election results are being tampered with.
The only way to learn about these implicit issues is to be open to the idea and then study them once you become aware of them. Before making a voting decision, give 15 minutes of your time to read about where the claim to racism enters in to a debate that might not seem to be about race to you from your perspective.
Its a big world out there and ignorance is becoming less and less of an excuse. Its not political correctness that you can dismiss from liberals, its basic human decency in a pluralistic, democratic society. No one is asking you for the moon, just some modest level of empathy and decency.
Now if a candidate like DeSantis says "monkey it up" and later learns that this is offensive to a certain segment of the population, all he has to do is apologize and acknowledge the offense and say, "lesson learned". But if he doesn't do this and just denies he meant it as racist, then whose vote is he courting?
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