Yes, precisely!
The problem is - Jared isn’t a good liar. Maybe he’s not pure evil. Maybe he just needs practices. Trump asked these questions would just out right say, “No, it wasn’t racist, we needed to check this stuff out.” And then shift to something else.
Christ, what an asshole.
And when they had to hide all the black employees at his casino whenever he came around (so he wouldn’t fire them), or the time he wouldn’t let a black guy on his yacht to fix it and there was a lawsuit, and that time he called Mexican immigrants rapists, and…
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Silly, that’s not proof he’s racist! That just shows he prefers his own kind! Nothing wrong with that! After all, it’s really the whites who are getting genocided, didn’t you know! /s
Ugh… How anyone can look at him, and not see a racist asshole, is beyond me…
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There’s a Freudian slip in his delivery, but I might be reading into this:
“…I have Nat-seen…”
That was a nice exchange, but the follow-up (“Do you wish he hadn’t done that?”) was pretty limp and left a lot of room for weaseling, room of which the Adviser (Weaseling) to the President took advantage. I’d have liked to see something more along the lines of “When you said he hadn’t done anything racist in the 69 years before being elected, you implied that you don’t think birtherism was racist. Yes or no: is birtherism racist?”
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Then there’s the, “He’s not racist because he never said kill all black people! And he’s never used the n-word. In public. That got caught on tape. That’s been released. And if that stops being the case, well, I’m sure he had a good reason to use the word, so that’s not racist,” argument. The racists whose definition of “racism” is so strict and tortured that even Hitler couldn’t be called a racist based on his statements.
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I think Trump’s response to that topic as of late has been more along the lines of “no of course it wasn’t racist when I questioned Obama’s birthplace, but actually it was Hillary who questioned Obama’s birthplace and that proves Hillary was the real racist.”
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A bit off topic, but since you bring it up, I’ve been asking myself that same thing about the Kardashians shortly after I first heard of them. And they are still around.
I guess I’m saying that unless the Trumps do something causing them to be stricken from all history books and human memory, even if//when he leaves office we will still be hearing about them.
He and his are itchy threads woven into the fabric of history, right around butt level.
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Remember “White Genocide” is really just a euphemism for the incel status of White Supremacists. A whine of “why won’t womenfolk mate with me?”
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I don’t think Kushner is on board with Trumpian pushback strategy, otherwise he would have said that Trump never said anything about President Obama’s birthplace, and never campaigned on banning Muslims.
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Unfortunately, there are plenty enough white women who believe in and go along with the ideology… Some women like playing those “traditional” gender roles and are into race politics all on their own, too.
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But the whole “White Genocide” thing is these incel guys blaming minorities for being able to mate with white women, while they are hopeless at it. Essentially broadcasting their personal inadequacy.
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Sure, but they’re not the only ones who use it or even remotely the first ones. It’s been a reoccurring theme in white supremacist circles for ages, now. So in addition to being assholes, they are also entirely unoriginal!
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Great turn of phrase - love it.
(Though I wonder if today’s Cinema Verité equivalents might have gone for Video Vomitatus? Or is that a Harry Potter spell?)
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Neo-Nazis by their nature start out in life as pale imitators and its just downhill from there.
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Actually, its more to do with the interviewer being sharp enough to take a point in an interview where he knows he can pin down his subject to a “Yes/No” answer. That’s when you can effectively keep asking the same question and get evasive replies - and the audience’s attention.
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Paxman has admitted he kept repeating the question because they’d underrun by several minutes, and the booth told him to fill, and he had nothing else prepared. It’s still marvellous to watch, though.
Botox syndrome.
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