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Baitball Blogger

(46,715 posts)
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 03:15 PM Jan 2018

Scaramucci on MSNBC saying that Trump is a complicated guy, but not a racist.

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Can we finally say that people who lean to the white Caucasian side of the spectrum would have a different perspective on identifying racists, compared to members of minority groups who have to bear the harm from the benefit of the doubt?

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Scaramucci on MSNBC saying that Trump is a complicated guy, but not a racist. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 OP
If I could punch the Mooch in the mouth . . . madashelltoo Jan 2018 #1
Must have been a Wellstone ruled Jan 2018 #2
Complicated guy? What's complicated about being a racist? IluvPitties Jan 2018 #3
IQ45 is a simulus-response machine. Real or imagined slight always results in an attack at offender. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2018 #9
Yea, right...... and mitch96 Jan 2018 #4
People need to quit thinking that the media will ever "come to its senses" CakeGrrl Jan 2018 #5
Not sure of the intent of your OP, but I am a white Caucasian and I don't have Atticus Jan 2018 #6
It is amazing that Mooch would get ANY air time at all rurallib Jan 2018 #7
Bwahahahahahaaaaa spanone Jan 2018 #8

madashelltoo

(1,698 posts)
1. If I could punch the Mooch in the mouth . . .
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 03:27 PM
Jan 2018

I would. Nobody’s buying Mooch on sedatives. A lie screeched and a lie delivered smoothly is still a lie, Mooch.

9. IQ45 is a simulus-response machine. Real or imagined slight always results in an attack at offender.
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 05:39 PM
Jan 2018

That's not complicated. That's Pavlovian.

CakeGrrl

(10,611 posts)
5. People need to quit thinking that the media will ever "come to its senses"
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:03 PM
Jan 2018

They will throw Dems / Progressives an occasional bone with the Joy Reids and Rachel Maddows they allow on the air to create the illusion of 'fairness', but at the end of the day, they are corporate-owned.

They will not bite the GOP hand that feeds them.

Dems need to bypass this coverage and remind people daily that:

** He has/had Nazis and White Nationalists in his cabinet, driving policies that have a disproportionately negative impact on POC
** His 'presidency' was celebrated by David Duke and Richard Spencer and continues to give a twisted 'hope' to white supremacists
** People on his reality show can attest to his racism, including a desire to have a "black vs white" format
** He has housing discrimination and derogatory attitudes in his public background
** He campaigned on derogatory mischaracterizations of Mexicans

Atticus

(15,124 posts)
6. Not sure of the intent of your OP, but I am a white Caucasian and I don't have
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:34 PM
Jan 2018

one damn bit of trouble identifying racists and I understand that racism is an existential threat to POC. My shortage of melanin did not effect my mind or my ability to empathize. You either care about people---of all colors---or you don't.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
7. It is amazing that Mooch would get ANY air time at all
Mon Jan 15, 2018, 04:51 PM
Jan 2018

and it is also amazing that MSNBC or anybody but FUX would think old Mooch would have any credibility with anyone.

My cat is named Book and he has more credibility in one meow than Mooch does in all his Gish Gallops.

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