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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 218 points 7 months ago

Okay, then why did you change your name from Nimarata to Nikki?

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 78 points 7 months ago

Such a good burn. Haley the randhawa punjabi. I wonder how many of her supporters even know she's of Indian decent.

[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago

See that's the thing, Republicans won't care about it until they really will. They can conveniently forget they hate minorites as long as the minority person is being as racist if not more racist and hateful than them. How do you think Thomas stays the token black friend of the GOP? How do you think the prick with a last name Cruz still stays in power in Texas no less? Same story has played out hundreds of times but people never learn that the "in" group always shrinks away from them

[-] some_guy 38 points 7 months ago

I don’t know what you’re implying. Also, you’re racist for asking the question. Over here in GOP-land, we don’t see color.

/s

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 32 points 7 months ago

Colbert made that joke for a decade and never once did conservatives realize it was pointed at them.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

It's actually racist to call someone racist

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[-] Oderus@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

My Canadian uncle changed the spelling of his name to Luke from Luc to avoid having to explain the differences between English and French. Also my uncle is a douche.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 63 points 7 months ago

Haley: "The libs called it 'slavery', but I like to call it 'job placement'."

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The prisoners with jobs...

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The constitution is quite racist. Has she never looked at the constitution? Oh right yeah, republican, she hasn't. Hey Nimarata, they later famously had to add a whole amendment to add equal protection under the law regardless of race, after you know, that whole civil war thing.

It was hard to get dumber after her civil war comments, but she found a way. This is even more mental gymnastics than all that lost cause BS. Like holy crap, you can't glance at any time period of American history without racism or its effects rearing its ugly head.

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago

Republicans are mentally defective.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago

Which would be fine, if they would keep that to themselves. Unfortunately, they want to rule over the rest of us.

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[-] Nougat@kbin.social 45 points 7 months ago

As a counterpoint, have you seen gestures broadly?

[-] Crikeste@lemm.ee 44 points 7 months ago

The genocide essential to America’s foundation would disagree, you dumb ugly cunt.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Also the whole 'black people are 3/5 of a human' thing in our founding document.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 42 points 7 months ago

Sartre quote time https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

They're just saying stuff. They may or may not believe it but that's irrelevant.

[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 41 points 7 months ago

Yes, of course. All those "independent contractors" that we imported from Africa were free to go whenever they wanted to. And who can forget the indigenous peoples who we "peacefully repopulated" into tax-free reservations. What, me racist? Surely you jest! /s

[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago

Racists don’t consider them people

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Here’s the intro from Mississippi’s declarations of causes for seceding from the US:

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove.

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If you want to see what the other states said as their primary reasons for trying to leave the United States, just read the first couple sentences under every state’s name. Spoiler alert, the south was super into African slaves.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states#mississippi

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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

The civil war was about states rights.

What a cow.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Keep in mind that Republicans live in an entirely different universe. For them, sentences like that may actually make sense, how would people from good old earth know? And who knows, maybe their next big thing is "Unicorns are real".

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Once again, she knows where her racist bread is buttered with white supremacist margarine.

Her self hating ass has always been willing to sell out minorities for money.

[-] diffcalculus@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

This has to have been taken out of context....

“No. We’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country,” Haley said in response.

Well shit. At least she's sticking to her guns....

“I know, I faced racism when I was growing up. But I can tell you, today is a lot better than it was then,” Haley said.

...so she's an idiot.

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Didn't she say she was bullied for being brown?

*Yes according to the TLDR bot. Boy the mental gymnastics.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago

She's really having a lot of trouble remembering American history.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A lot of New Hampshire boys died fixing some of the racist problems of this country.

You got to win in NH before going full Dixie.

Amateur.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 7 months ago

So the people who had slaves and wrote the Constitution and shit weren't racist? Hmmm 🤔

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Bitch, we were the template for the Nazis. The fuck you mean we weren't racist? Are racist, in most aspects.

[-] Octavio@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

According to Florida history curriculum, she's right.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Question: Do you think pre-civil rights America would have forced Nimrata Randhawa Haley to use the colored entrance to a movie theater? Or would she be allowed to use the entrance reserved exclusively for whites?

Silly question! It doesn't matter because America has never been a racist country! Next question!

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

Reagan could get away with using dog whistles. Trump said the quiet part out loud and now there's no going back.

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Replace 'never' with 'always', and it'd be a factual statement. She's a coward trying desperately to just fade into the background now without having any facists follow her home. I have no sympathy for her.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 7 months ago

Cool, so I guess the Race Riots were incorrectly named, and segregation never happened. Phew!

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[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

And therein lies her confusion with the root cause of the Civil War...

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Haley whether she thinks the GOP is a “racist party.”

Drawing on her experience as “a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town in South Carolina,” Haley said she has experienced racism in the past but doesn’t want to raise her children to think they’re disadvantaged — a point she’s made before.

She added: “I don’t want my kids growing up where they’re sitting there thinking that they’re disadvantaged because of a color or a gender.

At a campaign event in recent weeks, Haley was asked about the cause of the Civil War, and she omitted any mention of slavery.

The discussion about racism came after Haley was asked to respond to a clip from an MSNBC host saying, “The elephant in the room, she’s still a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant.

Haley responded by saying her credentials reveal the “American dream,” adding, “You can sit there and give me all the reasons why you think I can’t do this.


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[-] match@pawb.social 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

instead of teaching your kids that they're disadvantaged by racism just let them suffer and think it's their own fault if bad things happen to them :)

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Ok Nimarata! I mean Nikki!

[-] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

Hahahahahaha that’s a good one, oh wait she’s serious…

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