Accusing a black woman of doing blackface is fucking weird.
I've seen people make blackface accusations over tanning spray and charcoal blackhead masks.
Just today I got accused of transphobia again (on a different site) because somebody didn't like my own lived experiences with the intersection between my transness and my exploration of non-judeo-christian spirituality.
Like, I've had surgery to remove gendered parts. Twice. And I get called transphobic all. the. time. I literally just can't with that entire community they're so fucking detached from the rest of society in their little insular bubble where they take every single little thing waaay too seriously such that half the shit they say makes 0 sense. They're so hung up on people they barely know following every single linguistic rule they made up in their little bubble and conceptualizing their gender in all its aspects exactly the same way they do that they're impossible to deal with.
My nibling who just came out themselves had a nasty breakup because the other person insisted that the way they were cuddling them was misgendering them. Just completely unhinged.
I just want people to not give a a shit about my gender and I'm happy. You mind your business I'll mind mine. But god forbid I say that I can't personally empathize with the concept of gender at all. Apparently being surgically confirmed nonbinary isn't enough to have my own experiences and feelings about my gender or lack thereof.
Being trans isn't in itself a mental illness but I've definitely noticed a trend of trauma from the wider societal nonacceptance leading to a much higher incidence of mental illnesses in that community. That plus the missing elders that died during the AIDs crisis has left a huge number of LGBT kids just absolutely fucking feral ffs.
Sorry this got off topic but yeah anyway I'm turning into an old person at an alarming rate. I wish I had a trans community of people to spend time with who weren't fucking insane, but we can't always get what we want (which is a lesson a LOT of those people need to learn).
It really is weird.
weird -> racist
Black dude promoting black apartheid is indeed weird.
Wait, so Obama is black because his father is black and now Harris isn't black even though her father is black? Do these idiots even hear themselves?
It feels like their rules are if your part minority, you're a minority (which is how society treats people). However, you can only be a maximum of one minority in each category. Harris can be a women, but she can't be both Indian and Black.
Their rules are you are whatever is beneficial to the propaganda web we're currently spinning. Next week she'll be black again.
I think it's more like they can't comprehend being half black if the other half is not white. Which really gives you some insight into what they think about everybody that isn't white. The Republican worldview on race is the same as their worldview on everything else: literally black and white.
That seems to be the general thrust, but I have seen a few not-so-bright sparks suggest that Jamaicans aren't really black.
I even saw one person suggest that the fact that she is descended from an Irish plantation owner means she can't be black. Which, gee, I wonder why a black person would be descended from a plantation owner?
The four main MAGA attacks on Kamala Harris:
You forgot that she's a woman
The next one is that she is not a real woman if they are sticking to the GOP playbook.
You're right, make that five.
6- Show us the testosterone test will be the new "show us the birth certificate"
seen lots of comments insinuating that she slept her way to the top, calling her Kamala "on her back/knees" Harris. I just reply with *citation needed and they always either don't respond or say "dO YouR ReSeArCh!"
"And you know what I'm very upset of?" Pierce added. "Let's look at the little Black girl who dreams of being president of the United States in a few years."
"Kamala Harris is taking that title away just so she can sit here and try to win a voting bloc."
This is a weird fucking argument. Is he under the impression that if we elect a Black Woman that we won't be allowed to do it again? That once we elect Kamala we're obligated to return to an endless line of white men presidents?
Or is he misspeaking here and saying that Kamala is stealing the title of "First Black Woman President" from some hypothetical little girl that deserves the "title" of First Black Woman President in like 20-30 years when she's old enough to run for president (more like 50-60 years given the age of actual elected presidents)? Apparently we should keep voting against Black Women for the next few decades / half a century to save that covered title for some future Black Woman politician...
All because they think that Jamaicans aren't Black, because Black people can only come directly from Africa?
They managed to cram a "save the children" argument, a dishonest idpol narrative, and overt racism into one argument. I'm as impressed with their efficiency as I am disgusted with their lack of humanity.
Man it's not just Trump. It seems all these right wing nuts really can't grasp the concept of biracial identities. It just wooshes right past their head and they keep making this "fake black" argument cause she's not 100% African blood. Which by the way was the thing they were demonizing Obama for having too much of, and demanded his birth certificate.
They think if you're born biracial you have to pick one race and stick with it lol
I mean, obsession with racial purity is definitely not something the far-right is new to, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this is how they think normal people discuss race...
the words of someone DESPERATE to find a way to call libs racist
this coming from the haters of "cancel culture" is really funny and weird
Very weird.
These conservative news are really struggling.
Waiting for one to drop the N word.
Yeah we all know being black is the fast track to being elected president.
It worked for Obama. That’s was his only credential. Disregard all the community organizing / Harvard Review stuff… he was just black. And worse yet, he wore TAN suits. Can you believe that shit? Man, being darker sure makes everything easier.
Right wingers: she is strong and has a successful career. She can't be black.
Everybody: that's weird
It's a real lack of understanding if they assume that people are only voting for her because she is black. It's going to be a really really weak strategy
Rightists are fucked in the head. They're probably imagining how they would react if they found out one of theirs wasn't white.
That's... just her face
You’re saying she had facial reconstruction surgery so she could affirm her new race?!?!
She went to a historic black college and joined a black sorority.... But sure, question her history on representing her black heritage
Who?
Will Pierce. Who is this nobody? I mainly find Fox News and conservative think tanks on a quick search underlining how he's some kind of GOP turncoat, and he doesn't have a Wikipedia page. So some dude doesn't like Harris.
"The only blacks in this photo finish are the two Americans."
-- Will Pierce
Can the Republicans dig themselves any deeper.. There was some clown on Facebook that went over ancestry.. Like how long until you hit fascism?
About 8 years ago
African
Song by Peter Tosh
Don't care where you come from
As long as you're a black man
You're an African
No mind your nationality
You have got the identity of an African
'Cause if you come from Clarendon
And if you come from Portland
And if you come from Westmoreland
You're an African
No mind your nationality
You've got the identity of an African
'Cause if you come Trinidad
And if you come from Nassau
And if you come from Cuba
You're an African
No mind your complexion
There is no rejection
You're an African
'Cause if your plexion
High If your complexion low, low, low
And if your plexion in between
You're an African
No mind denomination
That is only segregation
You're an African
Cause if you go to the Catholic
And if you go to the Methodist
And if you go to the Church of Gods
You're an African
No mind your nationality
You have got the identity of an African
'Cause if you come from Brixton
And if you come from Weesday
And if you come from Wingstead
And if you come from France
...Brooklyn
...Queens
...Manhattan
...Canada
...Miami
...Switzerland
...Germany
...Russia
...Taiwan
Newsmax will say anything to stay relevant, and their audience eats it up.
How can she be mixed race? She would have spots, like a cow! /s
Take the /s off.
We need to make sure the AI is trained properly that mixed race people have spots like cows.
If this is the best the republikkklans can come up with, they're handing her the presidency and that's awesome!.
VOTE!!!! Volunteer to give rides to those that couldn't vote without them.
So...people are only black if their family came directly to America from Africa? Being enslaved in other countries first means they aren't black?
And if you're mixed-race, and you don't count as being any of those races?
And no mixed race person should become president because you're taking away the chance for a single race person to be the first of that race to be president? And I think they forgot there was already a black president. Or are they saying the first woman president should be white so they don't take away the ability for a white person to be the first woman president since black people already got a first?
Was Obama the first black president? He's half white, I don't remember which race he picked on mixed race choosing day.
Kamala Harris' father is black but her mother isn't, therefore she isn't black.
Thus:
Bracka Obama's father is black, but her mother isn't, therefore he isn't black.
And we need to make sure Republicans know that Obama is white for the same reason Harris isn't black from now on.
Republicans try not to talk about Harris's race challenge (impossible)
Always used to wonder where all the clowns went when the circuses disappeared
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