AOC's Racist Speech

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(04-11-2019, 11:27 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I think the difference, in these cases, are Trump is just mocking other ethnicities. He's not trying to pander to them. So it's a different energy. Trump, in these clips, is not trying to appeal to Indian or Hispanic people by imitating them, but rather distancing himself from them to get a laugh out of his primarily white fan base.

AOC is, according to the OP, trying to appeal to black people by putting on a false facade. Which is more a deception tactic than anything else.

Plus, I don't think using Trump as some kind of ethical, moral or normalized standard for what is not acceptable (and thereby, implicitly, approving of everything that isn't as bad as him) is a path I think most people would agree is not one we, as a nation, would prefer to go down. If you compare everything to the bottom rung, everything appears acceptable by comparison.

I guess the question is is it racist to mock an ethnic group or try to appeal to them?

Trump supporters seem to prefer the mocking of them, and slam the attempt (nerve) to try to appeal to them.

I disagree. But this is where we are at in Trump's America, and the American electorate has spoken on their preference. So what can you say.