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Trump tweets Racist Slur 'Pocahontus' referring to Senator Elizabeth Warren
- Thread starter Geist
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(And when he called her Pocahontas last year I never got why, I thought it had something to do with her personality or being a woman)
If people would stop making a federal case about every word that comes out of this mans mouth, they'd have a better chance at achieving their goals of getting rid of him.
After a point it just becomes noise and nobody on either side listens.
After a point it just becomes noise and nobody on either side listens.
I believe it's because she once thought she was of Native American decent.
A head of state being blatantly racist should always be talked about
Is rigging the primaries something the FBI and Justice Dept. should be involved in? They aren't technically official elections, correct? They are an apparatus of the political parties but I'm not sure what their status is. I don't think they are the 'sacred cow' that actual elections are.
If Obama called another politician a racial slur, it would've been enormous news, and for good reason.
Yeah he called her this during campaign season repeatedly. I think calling it racist is a stretch, ableit crude and not 'presidential.'
No. When the President of the United States is being blatantly racist and attacking another citizen and government official it should be acknowledge. It's not "making a federal case" out of a word. Is it being honest about this man's racism, bigotry, and sexism. Those are the intents he's expressing when he talks like this.
Twitter not banning this asshole is starting to really piss me off. If they have policies against abuse, they need to apply those policies equally across the board. I'm sure Trump brings in a ton of traffic, but that is no excuse for ignoring his abusive behavior.
He calls her that because she claims to be part Native American, at best she is something like 1/32 Native American, but the claim has not been definitively proven or disproven. In the past she claimed to be a minority in Association of American Law Schools directory, and Harvard Law School claimed her as a Native American professor as an example of a minority representation.
Clearly she is white and only has a very little amount of Native American in her, so I think her claim in the 90s to be a minority wasn't very honest. There have been accusations that she claimed to be a minority to get a leg up in her career. We have no way of knowing if she benefited from the claim at all. Anyway, after that came out it quickly turned racist as was used to attack her.
You are correct. Donald is just, again, showing how uneducated he is when it comes to his job.
Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th President of the United States uses racial slurs on Twitter to the surprise of... no one. Meanwhile, Twitter will keep saying he's "newsworthy" to keep his account open and the media will keep covering these incidents as if reality was a reality show.
Yea, where have you been OP?
It was disgusting then, and it's still disgusting now
As if that's going to do anything. Twitter has already established that rules don't apply to Trump.
Because that's exactly what he is.
I'm 1/16th native american but don't have any roots or connections to my heritage, or associate with the culture in any significant way. Who are we to say if she does feel some identification to the culture? If she was taught and connected with her heritage, or was interested in the culture of it all? She can absolutely feel a connection and representation in my opinion, whether you think so or not.
That he's so beneath the function he occupies doesn't mean he should be held to the same standard as everyone. That symmetry is fallacious in itself, he's not a regular twitter user (as exemplified by the fact he hasn't been banned).
In this case, the apathy of not "making a federal case about every word" means normalizing a discourse that should be unacceptable coming from an institution.
He's still doing it.
The more he's called out for it, the better. We shouldn't just shake our heads and move on. He's the God damned president of the United States, he sets the tone for EVERYONE in this country. Calling someone a racist slur like Pocahontas is just as bad as calling Obama a ******, but I'm sure we'll see a tape of that before the end.
People care about racism against Native Americans as much as they care bout racism against Asians.
I'm sure Huckabee-Sanders will say "it's really the Dems that are racist because she said she was Native American" to dismiss the racist slur.
I'm sure Huckabee-Sanders will say "it's really the Dems that are racist because she said she was Native American" to dismiss the racist slur.
This guy proclaims more fucking "National ________ week/month" than all the previous Presidents combined :P
Maybe I'm wrong but I feel like this isn't the first time he's referred to her as that. I'm sure Twitter will take swift action. /s
He's does it so he can inflate the reported amount of legislation he has passed. This came a lot when he was almost at 100 days in office.
I'm 3/512 Chickasaw and as white as the day is long and while I rarely invoke my heritage (its personal and who are you to tell me different), I find Trumps remarks to be racist.
