Donald Trump

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    https://www.theatlantic.com/maga…

    To Trump, whiteness is neither notional nor symbolic but is the very core of his power. In this, Trump is not singular. But whereas his forebears carried whiteness like an ancestral talisman, Trump cracked the glowing amulet open, releasing its eldritch energies. The repercussions are striking: Trump is the first president to have served in no public capacity before ascending to his perch. But more telling, Trump is also the first president to have publicly affirmed that his daughter is a “piece of ass.” The mind seizes trying to imagine a black man extolling the virtues of sexual assault on tape (“When you’re a star, they let you do it”), fending off multiple accusations of such assaults, immersed in multiple lawsuits for allegedly fraudulent business dealings, exhorting his followers to violence, and then strolling into the White House. But that is the point of white supremacy—to ensure that that which all others achieve with maximal effort, white people (particularly white men) achieve with minimal qualification. Barack Obama delivered to black people the hoary message that if they work twice as hard as white people, anything is possible. But Trump’s counter is persuasive: Work half as hard as black people, and even more is possible.

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    • started losing me at 'whiteness like an ancestral talisman' left at '...achieve with minimal qualification'Gnash
    • https://www.youtube.…utopian
    • Eat your dinner Gnashtwentyfive
    • Already sated. Lack of food doesn't cloud my judgement much, anyway. Sorry to hear it's an issue for you, though.Gnash
    • http://www.collectiv…imbecile
    • Oh and holy shit... was that racist! But whatever, I'll just work half as hard.imbecile
    • haha. posted as entertainment or "real and substantive news". i hate that i have to ask this question, but a necessity nowadays.
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    • if I worked half as hard as black people I'd be on permanent vacation.hotroddy
    • I'm only kidding.. just making a point that generalizations are ridiculous.hotroddy
    • Gnash I think you got lost in my metaphor...I just want you to eat dinner it's good for you!twentyfive
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