Of course she’s missing a few nifty details. White people, not even Italian and Irish white people, were subjected to Jim Crow, nor held in slavery before that. Nor are white people routinely treated as though they’re from another country as many Asian-Americans are.
Oh, and why isn’t the proper answer to her “question” NOT “I’m American, you bigoted piece of crap”?
These “explanations” are so epically, blatantly, radically bad, that they must be something other than what they literally purport to be: means of justifying atrocious speech and conduct. That’s what they seem to be, but that’s not what they are.
They must, instead, be intended to be seen as a means of declaring WE HAVE ALL THE POWER AND WE WILL DO EXACTLY AS WE PLEASE.
They are a giant “fuck you” to all non-deplorables. They are the Bully’s Boast.
While it’s important both to use whatever’s left of the rule of law against these disgusting individuals (including using the ballot box to ensure they have no place in government), we should also keep in awareness that these self-aggrandizers are contemptible.
That contempt can armor us against the common reaction to being bullied—to wonder if we should attempt to placate the bully, or to fear the bully, or to look for ways to stay out of the bully’s way. We should not react that way; we should react with resolve to get these people out of positions of power. Kellyanne Conway, Andy Harris, and all their ilk are despicable. They need to go.
If it were an exotic name, or a hard to place name like DeVos or Kobach, I could understand Ms. Conway’s question. It might be impolite in that particular context, but still, a fair question.
The reporter’s name was Feinberg. Kellyanne has lived in NYC, she presumably has seen an ornamental German-language name before.
I don’t know how to do that. I can call my congressman or supposed representative, who is not going to do anything. I’ll be lucky to get a form letter that says, “Yeah, yeah, whatever. Pipe down.” I’d have to spend all my free hours between now and November 3, 2020, going door to door or making phone calls and probably still not get anyone to change their minds. I don’t have any money so can’t buy any TV ads or get any attention. I’d like to donate to some candidates or organizations, but they either can’t or won’t do what really needs to be done. They will get distracted and trip over their own feet, politely handing “him” the ammunition to make them sound like the bad guys.
It feels like I’m being forced to lie in the street with a big 18-wheeler just coming to run me down. There is nowhere else to go and nothing to be done. There will be lawsuits to fight every atrocity, but eventually “he” will get his way because he always does, it’s just a matter of whether it will be now or in a few months. I don’t know what to do with this feeling of despair.
And it’s not about some petty political disagreement. It’s about a bully who can and will insist that everyone live the way he wants them to, with no health care coverage, no protection for preexisting conditions (he says he will do something about that but I won’t hold my breath), enact racist and inhumane policies, lie about socialism, abortion, etc.
I’m just so tired of it. I have no representation and no voice at all and I guess I never did but just now realized it at the age of almost 50. It’s so lonely.
I’m so tired of the constant insistence that people with similar political beliefs as mine don’t deserve representation and are just crazy and should be stomped down.
Yeah, it’s not even right to call it gaslighting at this point because they know you won’t believe them. They’re just saying “fuck you, I’m in charge.”
Speaking of Trump’s military parades, (we weren’t, but now I am), some people say that that is the whole point of goose-stepping in totalitarian regimes: the leaders are saying “I can make my men perform a silly walk and everyone needs to pretend to take them seriously or I’ll kill them,” rather than saying “look at this beautiful display of synchronized walking.”
Shades of late Bush era Gitmo rationalization there. “Well, they probably weren’t terrorists when we nabbed them but now that we’ve tortured them and held them incommunicado for years, we can’t release them, they *really *hate us !”
Congressman Mike Kelly: “I’m a person of color. I’m white.”
Apparently Congressman Kelly is unaware of the discrimination against Irish people in this country. Kelly is an Irish name, even though he tries to claim he’s Anglo-Saxon.
He says what he wants to be true. Anybody who disagrees with him deserves disrespect. Therefore, lies about his opponents become truth because they deserve it for being mean to him.
Repeat a lie often enough, and it becomes the truth.
Followers have gone from “Trump speaks the truth” to “Trump is so funny!” Then they say Obama and the Clintons did the same thing. Anything to avoid buyer’s remorse.
Nah, he’s pretending that the phrase “people/persons of colour” is really meaningless or to not understand that it describes non-white people for historico-cultural reasons. Further, he pretends to not understand why it matters, or why telling non-whites to “go back to their country” is beyond the fucking pale because hey, he’s a person of colour by his revelatory definition and if somebody said that to him (not that anyone ever would, or did) he wouldn’t be offended. Why do these bitches have such thin skin, amirite ?