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In this thread, I found the Epsteinfta.com link to search the epstein files for text. I know Steve Bannon is one of the main architects behind right wing media strategy. I know people who are black are a common distraction in the USA, so I searched "Bannon" "blacks", using "blacks" here because that's how racists refer to people who are black.
The very first hit is Steve Bannon discussing with someone how to improve Trump's image in 2018 by comparing him to Obama.
The second result is a conversation on how to gain support by "wearing the name calling as a badge of honor". The name calling here being labeled "racist".
This took 5 minutes and some brainpower.
Thanks for actually giving evidence, but to your point, if it only took five minutes and some brain power, then I would expect that the people making the claim in the first place should have been the ones to do it, since the burden of proof was on them. It's pretty annoying to act like it should be my responsibility to put the right search terms into that huge library of files, especially since there are plenty of other reasonable things that I might have searched while trying to find something to justify this anti-woke claim that maybe wouldn't have led to the same results as the one that you put in.
I don't think that it's not much to ask that if people want to make a claim that they should at least provide the actual source for it, rather than just gesturing to a million files and saying "it's in there, find it, and if you don't want to find it, you're a piece of shit".
You know what, that's a fair take. I suppose I've been keeping up with this stuff more than the average bear, so connections that may seem obvious to me may not be to people who don't have that same knowledge base.
I suppose the annoyed feeling comes from folks who have been keeping up with this stuff who feel like they have to keep proving that grifters like Steve Bannon are using words as weapons to gain power instead of standing by anything. Proof of right wing grifters being fascists keeps popping up, so it feels like playing whack a mole whenever someone asks for proof.