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demmiblue

(36,824 posts)
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:20 AM Apr 2021

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't think the Anglo-Saxon reference is racist:

Did you miss me this week Fake @JakeSherman?

Taking #AngloSaxon out of context to mean racist is the same as the idiots that lied about me and #JewishSpaceLasers.

Jake, how about you tell your favorite communist @AOC
to debate me and I’ll teach her about #AmericaFirst.

K? [KK]




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Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't think the Anglo-Saxon reference is racist: (Original Post) demmiblue Apr 2021 OP
Oh man, I'd pay to see Ocasio-Cortez debate that stupid moron. Treefrog Apr 2021 #1
Pay-Per-View. JohnnyRingo Apr 2021 #23
Me too! Maybe that's a way AOC could raise money for re-election. blueinredohio Apr 2021 #25
Calling for shit that never happens. GOP. LakeArenal Apr 2021 #2
If not racist, the enemy of all humanity. rickyhall Apr 2021 #3
Debate what ? rickford66 Apr 2021 #4
While neo-Nazis cheered this dog whistle DBoon Apr 2021 #5
Jake...Sherman or Tapper? Cracklin Charlie Apr 2021 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author luckone Apr 2021 #7
ERROR: You can't paste images like that. NurseJackie Apr 2021 #10
What are we supposed to do with all of that? brush Apr 2021 #22
I think the poster tried to copy and paste an image from the site she/he linked to. demmiblue Apr 2021 #29
Jesus, edit this obamanut2012 Apr 2021 #27
Funny thing about prejudice and bigotry gratuitous Apr 2021 #8
'Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't think' spanone Apr 2021 #9
+1 Arkansas Granny Apr 2021 #19
Descendant of the wretched refuse of Europe says what? Marcuse Apr 2021 #11
Such a need for attention. jeffreyi Apr 2021 #12
Nazi says what? Nevilledog Apr 2021 #13
Notes from Wikipedia on the Anglo Saxons jmbar2 Apr 2021 #14
Marjorie Taylor Greene is a beautiful woman who eschews adultery dalton99a Apr 2021 #15
Well, MTG doesn't think. MissMillie Apr 2021 #16
Who else will speak for the white people? JohnnyRingo Apr 2021 #17
. dalton99a Apr 2021 #18
It probably wasn't hard to find a pic like that. JohnnyRingo Apr 2021 #20
+1. Where the real power lies dalton99a Apr 2021 #21
Proceed, dumbass (R-Georgia). I hope she keeps doubling down. Politicub Apr 2021 #24
Considering there are scarce, if any, non-white Anglo-Saxons, what could she possibly mean? no_hypocrisy Apr 2021 #26
That's part of a pattern too Withywindle Apr 2021 #28
The first five words of the OP said it all. 11 Bravo Apr 2021 #30
Most racists won't admit they are... Wounded Bear Apr 2021 #31

JohnnyRingo

(18,619 posts)
23. Pay-Per-View.
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 12:36 PM
Apr 2021

I'd cough up for that too, but I'm afraid it would end like that PPV boxing match of Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley.
A million and a half PPV customers paid to watch an 89 second fight before McNeeley's manager pulled him out for the sake of preserving his life.

They'd have to promise she wouldn't storm out on the second question.

DBoon

(22,340 posts)
5. While neo-Nazis cheered this dog whistle
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:30 AM
Apr 2021

You want to know if something is racist, see if it excites the most vile dedicated racists out there.

MTG passes this test in abundance

Response to demmiblue (Original post)

demmiblue

(36,824 posts)
29. I think the poster tried to copy and paste an image from the site she/he linked to.
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:57 PM
Apr 2021

It has happened to me several times, but I caught it by previewing my posts. It happens.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. Funny thing about prejudice and bigotry
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:44 AM
Apr 2021

The person saying prejudiced and bigoted things doesn't get to decide if those utterances are racist. We're well aware of what you're saying, Marjorie. You're not nearly as clever as you seem to think you are.

jmbar2

(4,865 posts)
14. Notes from Wikipedia on the Anglo Saxons
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 11:55 AM
Apr 2021

Not sure I’d hang my identity on Anglo Saxon identity. They were living in mud huts while the Romans, Greeks and Egyptians had highly developed cities. But some elements will be remarkably familiar to the Wipipo Caucus...

The fall of England and the Norman Conquest is a multi-generational, multi-family succession problem caused in great part by Athelred's incompetence.

Following the Norman conquest, many of the Anglo-Saxon nobility were either exiled or had joined the ranks of the peasantry.

However, the population of England at home remained largely Anglo-Saxon; for them, little changed immediately except that their Anglo-Saxon lord was replaced by a Norman lord.[132]

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis, who was the product of an Anglo-Norman marriage, writes: "And so the English groaned aloud for their lost liberty and plotted ceaselessly to find some way of shaking off a yoke that was so intolerable and unaccustomed"

The larger narrative, seen in the history of Anglo-Saxon England, is the continued mixing and integration of various disparate elements into one Anglo-Saxon people. The outcome of this mixing and integration was a continuous re-interpretation by the Anglo-Saxons of their society and worldview, which Heinreich Härke calls a "complex and ethnically mixed society".[139]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons#Conquest_of_England:_Danes,_Norwegians_and_Normans_(1016%E2%80%931066)

JohnnyRingo

(18,619 posts)
17. Who else will speak for the white people?
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 12:14 PM
Apr 2021

hahaha

The republican Congress, in both the House and the Senate, is one big Anglo Saxon caucus.

MTG should be chastised for wasting money on redundancy. It's probably because she isn't getting committee appointments, so she's inventing her own.

JohnnyRingo

(18,619 posts)
20. It probably wasn't hard to find a pic like that.
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 12:25 PM
Apr 2021

If you think about it, you probably could not find a corporate board room, charity panel, or club meeting with that many white men at one table. Seriously.

no_hypocrisy

(46,038 posts)
26. Considering there are scarce, if any, non-white Anglo-Saxons, what could she possibly mean?
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 02:45 PM
Apr 2021

Saving the cultural benefits of a liberal arts education which also incorporate The Enlightenment?

Re-dedicating ourselves to the Magna Carter?

Parliamentary government? https://www.britannica.com/topic/democracy/England

Endorsing the themes of the evils of capitalism found in Charles Dickens?

What? What?

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
28. That's part of a pattern too
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 03:54 PM
Apr 2021

Taking something that is obviously, blindingly, blatantly racist and saying it's not racist. Gaslighting people and trying to devalue the meaning of the word. Over time, the sheer volume and repetition of the denials will work on some people.

Wounded Bear

(58,605 posts)
31. Most racists won't admit they are...
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 04:34 PM
Apr 2021

most are blind to their actions and attitudes and how other people view them. And most people are put off by the attitude. After all, is there really a greater insult than "I don't give a shit what you think?"

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