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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's amazing that Mark Meadows would have the temerity of using a black woman's body as a prop...
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spanone
(135,874 posts)Basement Beat
(659 posts)He literally went on a panic attack after being called out by his tactics.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Amusing? Astonishing? Totally expected?
But you KNOW that Meadows is accustomed to the "how can it be racist if" tropes. In the circles he runs in, that is the irrefutable point, the one that shuts down all further mock discussion of racism as everyone guffaws about how easy it is to prove you're not racist (especially when you really are). Then, he goes out into public, which doesn't see things qui-i-i-i-te the way Meadows does. But he trots out his irrefutable point, expecting it to be every bit as successful as it is with his buddies.
Then it isn't effective. Huh. In fact, some people have the temerity to point out the glaring hole in his irrefutable point. And they're just so MEAN about it! Meadows' friends are never like that.
I guess it is by turns amusing, astonishing, totally expected, and more than just a little sad.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Man, his face got really red, too, when he was "protesting too much".
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)group to deflect any suspicion of racism.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,450 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,450 posts)They are just "props". There "for show". "Background scenery".
fishwax
(29,149 posts)So, essentially, he did exactly what Tlaib did in calling a specific action racist, except that (a) he didn't get called out for it and (b) his claim was intellectually dishonest bullshit.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)go find a black person we can drag out and parade around. Hurry!
Sickening.
eleny
(46,166 posts)And wait for his third act in front of the press. That's coming.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)"2012 is the time we are going to send Mr. Obama home to Kenya or wherever it is"
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)being used as a prop that she felt like she was being personally insulted. I felt angry.