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Cause as you guys know, you may not know this, but it is black history month.
So that adds a little bit more insult to injury, but let's take a look at the European coverage on the story so far.
They spent the past two years normalizing genocide, the past week normalizing pedophilia, and now they're going to try to normalize explicit anti-black racism.
Yeah, they're just like leveling up or if you consider it kind of like leveling down because anti-black racism has become more sophisticated throughout time as gains have been made in terms of like civil rights and whatnot.
And anti-blackness is embedded into every orifice of American culture.
And that's the reason why the thug equation that I previously mentioned exists to begin with.
You can't straight up say the N word when referencing a black person.
So you say different terms like urban, thug, things of that nature.
That's a byproduct of like the, I guess, modicum.
of cultural gains that uh black people have fought long and hard for but that doesn't mean that anti-blackness has gone away it's just become more invisible right and it's really interesting to watch this uh this this or ghetto is another substitute term as well this is weird though because most republican senators have now come out and condemned this they don't condemn what he said about somalis or when ice kills people but this is a step too far i guess yes because of what i've talked about this is boundary breaking
You're no longer talking about individual black people as low IQ over and over again, which is something that Trump loves doing.
You're now directly depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
That is, for the most racist Americans, for the most racist, like, normie Americans...
It's the equivalent of saying the N-word.
It is beyond the permission structure.
It's the most explicit way that you can be racist.
Americans have an unlimited appetite, an unlimited appetite for anti-black policies that you can try and justify.
And Republicans do this all the time.
But when you actually drop all pretext that there is like a justification for this and you just engage in the most classic versions of anti-black racism, so overt that it's indefensible, even the most racist guys will come out and be like, yeah, this is a bridge too far for us.