Black Trump supporter claims he was called a ‘slave’ by right-wing organization he was canvassing for
Black Trump supporter claims he was called a ‘slave’ by right-wing organization he was canvassing for
EXCLUSIVE: Carl Baxter, a MAGA fan who heads up a county Republican club in Florida, is suing the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity over alleged discrimination
Completely blindsided! Who could have foreseen such things?
Strange, they all seemed like such nice bigots too
"Well I didn't think they would eat MY face!"
Mmm, crunch and gooey at the same time!
-A leopard, probably.
Leopards are your face, huh
Well, they're not MY face!!
Here we have the unstoppable force of "no one should ever be treated that way" meeting the immovable object of "lol fuckin turd deserves exactly what he gets"
On the one hand, yeah, this is a horrible thing to say to someone
On the other, if anyone ever reminded you of Stephen from Django Unchained... This guy's a pretty good candidate.
I never expected leopards to eat MY face!
I have as much sympathy with black trumpers as I do for the jews for hitler people.
Maybe just don't vote for the party that wants to take the country back to the 1850s.
A source with direct knowledge of the situation noted that Baxter was technically working for AFP as a contractor, and said AFP was not in fact his direct employer.
Here we go. “Justice” will be elusive, time consuming, expensive, and ultimately unfulfilling.
I hope he wakes up and realizes what kind of people he’s been supporting, and doesn’t just shrug it off as an isolated problem with this one particular organization. I won’t hold my breath.
Yes that’s unsurprising and yes he’s probably a bad person, but also I feel the need to say that’s a really shitty thing to do to him. Even shitty people deserve to not be targeted by racist remarks.
Perhaps he will realize that his entire organization is filled with shitty people... nah
Kind of but let’s say:
Someone offered you to fight a bear for $5k.
He assures you the bear is safe.
People around you tell you it’s not, and don’t be an idiot.
Is it your fault if you chose to take the con man’s offer and fight the bear or the con man’s fault?
I started thinking about this after the titanic submarine disaster. Like, how is that not like a Darwin Award?
The difference is that racists are not bears. They’re people behaving poorly. I think this is better compared to a thief getting robbed by his partner in crime. Is he a fool? Yes. Is he a bad person? Yes. Can I blame his partner in crime for this? Also yes. In both cases it’s an idiot and a bad person walking into a position that another person behaved poorly towards them.
no, they do.
They are enabling the racists to be further empowered to take further racist actions that effect other people. They deserve the same racism they're enabling to happen to them.
The guy's an uncle tom. if you think that's a shitty, racist thing to say
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He deserves it
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Maybe I should call him an uncle ruckus instead.
I think there’s a worthwhile distinction between somebody “deserving” a consequence, versus having it coming because they (wholly or partially) brought it upon themselves.
The classic example is drunk driving. We don’t execute people for it, nor should we. But when somebody is hammered and runs into a tree at 2x the speed limit, they kind of had that coming even though it IS still a tragedy. We look at the silver lining that at least they didn’t take any innocents with them.
In this case, of course the racism is bad and shameful, and it’s the same assholes doing it. It should not be happening. But when the already-existing racists get help from one of the very people they’re trying to marginalize… I mean this is exactly the kind of crap the leopards eating faces meme was created for. I shouldn’t need to explain the absurdity, lol.
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Too many people mistake politeness for someone being nice
And this guy is in Florida, so he should have realized that "polite" is often Southern for "go fuck yourself."
Bless his heart.
Tip: They most likely called him the N-word while he was out canvassing for them. Rascist are like that.
RascistRacists are like that.🤓
Seeing someone that dark in a maga hat almost looks like blackface
HE can't BELIEVE leopards ate HIS face!
But obviously he is one of the "good ones".
/s
First of all, that speech is awesome.
But I want to comment on something regarding modding, and ask an honest question: Shouldn't reiteration of historical speeches or texts be omitted from rules about slurs? I mean, reiterating a speech, or a section of Huckleberry Finn, is obviously not the same thing as devaluing someone by calling them a slur. We actually have a quite hot debate going on in my country about this now, where some teachers were harassed for "being racist", because in class they read aloud a famous poem written by an immigrant about racism, where he writes some of the things that were shouted at him. The whole point of the poem, and of reading it in class, is of course to make a point out of how bad racism is, and to educate about racism. Still, these teachers have been stamped as "racists" because they reiterated specific words in the poem.
For the honest question (I'm not American or a native english speaker): Isn't there a historical difference between the word "Negro", and a certain similar word I'll refrain from reiterating? The way I've understood it, the former is a historically more neutral form, that was simply used the way we today would use "black person", while the latter has more or less always had some kind of devaluating undertone. I've gotten that interpretation, among other things, from having read speeches where people are promoting equal rights, and use "Negro" to refer to black people, while clearly not believing that they are inferior in any way (hence the promotion of equal rights). Of course, today, both words are considered unacceptable, but I would like to clarify if I've misunderstood, as it helps in interpreting things that were said or written in the past.
But I want to comment on something regarding modding, and ask an honest question: Shouldn’t reiteration of historical speeches or texts be omitted from rules about slurs?
I'm not a Lemmy mod, and I've never moderated a community on the scale that any of the Lemmy mods operate at, but I'll share my 2cents anyways.
Moderators will often have "automods" setup that just automatically remove anything with a slur in it and mark it for review. Realistically there should never be any slurs uttered in your community, so you can safely blacklist them and reinstate comments in the rare instance that a comment contains a slur and is worth reinstating
In the case of a quote, if it is in context and has good reason to be there, including the slur, or ideally a partially censored version of the slur can very well be appropriate, but it's one of those situations that's calls for best judgment because someone might think they're smart by quoting famous people who used slurs as a way to use slurs online and not be insta-removed. Really it comes down to one of the finer points of moderating which is curation. By a moderator opening the floodgates in allowing a certain kind of questionable conduct it can change the vibe of a community irreparably, so it's important to be careful about allowing certain conduct and to do so on a case by case basis
My reasoning is is that I don't want to have to risk arguing why I should be allowed to say the N word, any N word each and every time I want to post this speech. Of all places, my comment was deleted on reddit's /r/badcopnodonut in regards to Mayor of NYC, Eric Adams Tough on Crime stance a while back.
Maybe other forums and communities wont filter out this version of the N word, maybe not. Linking directly to a University's webpage of the speech cuts out a lot of the possible head bashing.
Personally speaking, I think the slur could be used against all those "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" regardless of their skin color.
And now he is suing for discrimination, probably taking advantage of legislation passed by democrats
Yeah, "racial discrimination lawsuit" sounds like a bunch of woke Democrat talk to me.
Seriously, I do hope he wins some money off of those assholes, but I hope even more that this was a wakeup call for him about the sort of people he was affiliating with, and the sort of views he has been supporting.
Who would have thought the leopards would eat MY face!
He never thought the leopards would eat his face!
That’s what I was thinking. Such a handsome guy, surely not THAT face!
Nobody had the heart to tell him... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ
Wow, that was really something…
I’m sure they followed with, “But you’re one of the good ones…”
It's funny, I almost made a similar comment but decided not to because I was worried it sounded too racist. Had typed out and discarded
"They usually tell me real nice things like "I'm one of the good ones "
-that guy probably
I don't think this dude has a very good brain. I hope he wins anyway.
What did he expect?
He just has a bad case of revitiligo it's not his fault
Iss tha' opposite o' what Michael Jackson got!
Shocked and surprised.
Happy cake day!
Thanks.
Who could've predicted that fascists would act like such Nazis?
What did you expect Uncle Tom? Are you really shocked the face eating leopard party had leopards that ate your face?
He faced the racism other black people did basically.
leopards & whatever.
faces or something
OP must be trolling. I don't see how this could happen
Suck shit Baxter.
Crazy if true. I'm curious about what the result of the lawsuit will be.
Conservatives are gullible as fuuuuck, no matter their skin color.
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Giving this guy the benefit of the doubt, he probably just wanted a job, and hated every minute of it.
When someone called him a slave it provided him with a lucrative exit, and an opportunity to kick their bigoted asses on the way out the door.
The AFP will settle with him to shut him up. It will be at the very least several months worth of work.
Shit is tough out there guys.
