As it should be. They will lock you up, deport you, tread on your rights unless you're rich or powerful or pose a threat.
Politeness should have gone out the window long ago.
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He hates anyone who isn't white
It's right that he's not invited. He has quite a history of vicious racism
Didn't he say something about loving "Mexicans" (in reference to all Latin Americans) because you can "pay them so little"?
I love the fact that they didn't just not invite him, they held a press conference to announce it: "We're having a big party, and you can't come, because you're a big poopyhead."
Don't worry, he probably already has an invitation to a KKK or Proud Boys meeting that day.
What a weird scheduling mixup, the KKK rally and the proud boys meetup are being held at the same time, at the same place
At four seasons landscaping!
The fact that they invited Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, and even Trump the first time around is appalling.
Maybe hoping to convince him, and now they've properly given up on fixing him?
Never gave up on any of the other demons the Republican Party produced, though.
If they had any hope in them it's embarrassing.
Giving those you're fighting against an opportunity to publicly embarrass themselves can have many advantages. It also paints you as a group who is open to a good faith discussion about topics you know you disagree with these people on, which helps to gain more general public support for your causes.
It also gives them legitimacy and lets them pretend they aren't horrible racists.
I think the fact that they were sitting presidents is what gave them the most legitimacy. Fighting against racism usually means engaging in various ways with racists, so I simply disagree.
The fear of "giving people legitimacy" was valid when it was relatively unknown alternative right thinkers that you had to be paying attention to know their names, and even when Trump had an electoral college victory. But in these days, your Trumps and Rogans have more than double the legitimacy that you even have to give out.
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Exclusion will annoy him more than criticism.
The surprising thing to me, if this is the first time in history, is that this means they invited him every year of his first term.
Better late than never
The group also noted that Republican President Ronald Reagan accepted its invitation during his first year in office. Civil rights leaders had criticized Reagan’s use during the 1980 campaign of the term “welfare queen” to refer to people abusing federal aid. The term was viewed by many as coded racial language for Black women.
He certainly meant all the white welfare queens! /s
I will now quote Lee Atwater in 1981, apologies for the offensive terminology, but these shitheads speak this way:
You start out in 1954 by saying, “~~N----r, n----r, n----r~~.” By 1968 you can’t say “~~n----r~~”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “~~N----r, n----r~~.”
Gosh, I wonder if they're (repubs) racist…?
This comment was reported for containing racial slurs. First off, thanks, good call.
That said, taking things into context and the fact that they're part of a direct quote providing historical context, I'm allowing the comment to remain for now for that reason.
@some_[email protected] If you wouldn't mind masking out the slurs (e.g. n----r), I think that might satisfy any potential concerns with regard to automods, content filters, or misunderstandings without diluting the gravity of the context it's providing.
That's why I used the strikethrough, but you're right. I could do better. Amended.
You did fine before the edit. Nothing wrong quoting ass holes showing they're ass holes and shitty ways of thinking.
I prefer quotes to be as close to the original as possible. Hurtful as it is. That's kind of the point here.
Censoring the bad shit that happened before is a sure way to repeat it. See holocaust denial for the extreme. Don't deny talking about the past just because it hurts.
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Just FYI, that report from the automod is just that, a report, it's up to the human moderators to decide whether it's fine in the context or not, it wasn't meant as something that should be taken action on in each and every case.
Good. It's the only logical decision
Man..... i had someone ask subreddit suggestions last night like wtf. Told them about lemmy and all but also pointed out why reddit might still be usefull but the way it is, is unhealthy. I pointed to r/conservative as one of many examples and saw this news sooner. The comments, jfc they just dont care, they think it's funny the NAACP has stooped so low, and the sheer lack of post about the parade was even more telling.
I still use old.Reddit for a few niche pocket of things as it still has some value to me. But instead of spending hours on it like I used to, I only spend like 20 mins on it and then I just get the fuck off.
“This has nothing to do with political party,” Johnson said in a statement. “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights.”
Narrator:
It had everything to do with political party, as the GOP had made a primary part of their national platform and brand about ignoring racial injustice and the legacy of slavery, in addition to overt, callous racism.
And next year will be 117 years, then 118, then 119…
Did they invite him during his first term?
They invited all the presidents. You try to bring in those with the power to change things and convince them that their actions have meaning, even symbolic ones. So, they probably tried his first term. It's clear now that he doesn't care and is in no way willing to help. I suspect that the reason they're not inviting him goes beyond that. They're making a statement. They're signalling to those who support their mission.
I looked through a different article and it said this: "Trump will be the first president since Herbert Hoover in 1932 not to speak at the conference at all, skipping it entirely in 2016 as the presidential nominee and again in 2017 and 2018."
So your man was invited but didn't come.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/naacp-breaks-with-116-years-of-history-to-snub-trump/
Not my man. I consider him to be about as abhorrent of a person as a person can be. He should be in jail for so many crimes.
I think you and I think of different meanings for "your man". Never said that Trump wasn't a gombeen piece of shit.
Well, I'm glad for the misunderstanding! A unique experience for me!
Every day we learn something is a happy day for us
Good call Mr. Johnson. Although, listening to Krasnov's speech would be entertaining and humiliating at the same time.
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