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ArtTownsend

(439 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:16 PM Feb 2020

Note the constant, vicious attacks against "the Squad" - especially the trope that they're "dumb."

Silly young women of color, out of their depth, don’t know what’s good for them, talking too loud and too much, rudely challenging capitalism and warmongering and speaking out of turn; shouldn’t they just shut up and know their place?

Dismissing the intellects of women and people of color, brought to you by the party of real geniuses like Donald Trump and his family and cronies and the highly knowledgeable Republican electorate.

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Note the constant, vicious attacks against "the Squad" - especially the trope that they're "dumb." (Original Post) ArtTownsend Feb 2020 OP
Amen! Ohiogal Feb 2020 #1
It's easy to tell that what they attack are the things that actual scare them. unitedwethrive Feb 2020 #2
Recommended. guillaumeb Feb 2020 #3
we know YOU are dumb, what are they? pansypoo53219 Feb 2020 #4
Unbridled racism and misogyny live love laugh Feb 2020 #5
Being called dumb by Trumpers Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2020 #6

unitedwethrive

(2,016 posts)
2. It's easy to tell that what they attack are the things that actual scare them.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:35 PM
Feb 2020

What is harder to understand is why they are so afraid of people different than them.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
3. Recommended.
Sat Feb 8, 2020, 10:40 PM
Feb 2020

NWA had an album titled "Fear of a black Planet".

This is the primal fear of the GOP, the party of racism and reaction. The fear that their all white Amerikka will fall.

live love laugh

(16,343 posts)
5. Unbridled racism and misogyny
Sun Feb 9, 2020, 01:15 AM
Feb 2020

In Republican world it’s okay for Trump to say:

Maxine Waters is a “low IQ individual”
Obama’s birth certificate is not valid
That a well educated black has “tremendous advantage over a well educated white“
Lebron James is “stupid” after he opened up a school
Colin Kaepernick should be fired but he invited Rapinoe to the White House for the same thing
To a black journalist “what a stupid question that is”
That people from Haiti have AIDS
That Nigerians would never go back to “their huts”once they see America
That Nazis were “very fine people”
That the exonerated Central Park five should have still been executed

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