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Lately, I've noticed a ramp up in the white supremacy rhetoric coming from the left.
Yesterday, AOC implied calling the migrant crisis a surge is a white supremacist dog whistle:
https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-says-referring-migrants-coming-143649141.html
surge
[sərj]
NOUN
So I summary, surge is a naughty word if a conservative uses it. But its okay if a liberal uses it.
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Also, just last week crazy old joe implied the filibuster is a Jim Crow era relic:
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-agrees-obama-senate-filibuster-192641229.html
I guess no one bothered to let Nancy and gang of flunkies know.
https://www.westernjournal.com/davi...-filibuster-314-times-trump-now-want-abolish/
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Going a little further back. As we know, the George Boyd race riots stretched across the country, causing 2 billion in damages; as well as, causing covid 19 to spike tremendously.
However, here's what neo-lib propaganda outlets had to say about peaceful anti-lockdown protests:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/4/25/21234774/coronavirus-covid-19-protest-anti-lockdown
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/anti-lockdown-protesters.html
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As a thread bonus, I've included some images of the actors involved:
Yesterday, AOC implied calling the migrant crisis a surge is a white supremacist dog whistle:
https://news.yahoo.com/aoc-says-referring-migrants-coming-143649141.html
I really have no idea whats racist about using the word "surge". Maybe one of sherdog's race obsessed leftists can explain it.Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday said that referring to the rise in border crossings over the past few months as a "surge" or "invasion" smacks of white supremacy.
surge
[sərj]
NOUN
- a sudden powerful forward or upward movement, especially by a crowd or by a natural force such as the waves or tide.
So I summary, surge is a naughty word if a conservative uses it. But its okay if a liberal uses it.
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Also, just last week crazy old joe implied the filibuster is a Jim Crow era relic:
https://news.yahoo.com/biden-agrees-obama-senate-filibuster-192641229.html
President Joe Biden said he agreed with former President Barack Obama that the Senate filibuster is a "Jim Crow relic" and inched closer to endorsing Democratic efforts to abolish the rule requiring 60 votes to pass legislation during a Thursday press conference.
I guess no one bothered to let Nancy and gang of flunkies know.
https://www.westernjournal.com/davi...-filibuster-314-times-trump-now-want-abolish/
The Senate GOP had to end debate on judicial nominees and break filibusters 314 times in President Donald Trump’s single term. To put that in perspective, every other president in the history of the United States has faced, combined, 244 of those roll-call votes over a filibuster.
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Going a little further back. As we know, the George Boyd race riots stretched across the country, causing 2 billion in damages; as well as, causing covid 19 to spike tremendously.
However, here's what neo-lib propaganda outlets had to say about peaceful anti-lockdown protests:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/4/25/21234774/coronavirus-covid-19-protest-anti-lockdown
It’s easy to dismiss the anti-lockdown protests as business per usual in the land of right-wing Trumpism. But there is a much larger issue at play that existed long before President Donald Trump took office, and that he has learned to artfully exploit. It’s why it’s not surprising that in some areas, protesters waved Confederate flags or held signs that read, “Give me liberty or give me Covid-19.” The protests are symptomatic of the profound presence of whiteness and white supremacy in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/anti-lockdown-protesters.html
It’s true that not every racial disparity speaks to some deeper dynamic of race and racism. But this one does. I don’t think you can separate the vehemence of anti-lockdown protesters from their whiteness, nor do I think we can divorce their demands to “reopen” the economy from the knowledge that many of those most affected belong to other racial groups. It’s not so much that they’re showing racial animus (although some are), but that their conception of what it means to be “free” is, at its root, tied tightly to their racial identity.
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As a thread bonus, I've included some images of the actors involved:
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