Hasan Piker

And you know what's really indecent about that, too?

They never return the favor for left flank candidates.

Because no one ever made hay about Bernie Sanders potentially becoming the candidate.

And all of the articles that came out about how Trump might be more preferable to Bernie Sanders.

because they were writing those liberals were writing those articles talking about how you know the head of goldman sachs who was like i'm a lifetime democratic party voter i think uh you know donald trump is better than bernie sanders i know

I've had a lot of technical issues.

Sorry.

I mean, I think as the as the white guy on the panel, it's probably not my place to say this, but I have this theory of permissible racism that the broad majorities of white people who might share racialized animus might consider to be like somewhat permissible because anti-blackness is baked into every orifice of American society.

And there are a couple of things that you can't you can't touch.

Right.

There's a couple of things that when you do it, even other racist white people will go, oh, that's a little bit too much for me.

And I feel like obviously the most the classic example of this is is perhaps best demonstrated by Lee Atwater, famous Republican strategist Lee Atwater, that said you can't say the N-word anymore after the after the civil rights movement.

So you'd like find different ways of analogizing the N-word by N-word.

attacking black people from the point of welfare, claiming that black people are welfare queens, things like that, that Ronald Reagan did.

We all know that Donald Trump is racist.

We all know that he is deeply invested in anti-blackness as a primary part of his politics.

I mean, this is the same person that took out a

full-page ad in the New York Times to demand the execution of the Central Park Five.

This is a person whose family was prosecuted by the federal government for refusing to rent out their properties to black people.

So we already knew this, and yet the Republicans are acting as though they're shocked now because he has finally touched on this issue