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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Lavenie@programming.dev to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated. Sure, it existed. But it's not widespread. Common.

Well...I was wrong.

"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"

"Mamdani supports ISIS and Hamas"

"New York City faces sharia law"

"Mamdani wants to murder jews"

The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.

He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

He exchanged a brief hug with representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.

Immediatly, politicians went wild

Senator Ted Cruz:

Speaker Mike Johnson:

He smiled 5 seconds in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating terrorism.

Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic, he hugged her, then he immediatly went back to being stoic.

At the same 9/11 ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.

No one cares.

I never thought I would say this.

The US is more racist than I ever imagined.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It might be a new account, but I agree with the example it provided for our bigotry problem. We are completely infested with conservatives, which is why we have such a wide-spread problem with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia and other bigotry.

If we delete conservatism, we also delete the bigotry that comes with it.

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This post could not be a more obvious psyop.

Imagine thinking Ted Cruz represents any significant portion of the American populace. Holy fucking Lemmings are very dumb.

Edit: by the way, a not insignificant portion of people in the U.S. voted for Trump because they're greedy. I'm not saying it's the right reason to vote, but saying every person who voted for Trump did it so they could say slurs is so intellectually vacant I'm surprised you can put the words together to begin with.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago
[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're an idiot

Edit: oh, no - you're a 1 month old account. That tracks.

[-] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com -3 points 2 days ago

I’ll bet you did. Anything you can spin to advocate for violence against those you disagree with, right?

Guess I’m 2/2 today.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nope. You are dead wrong as usual. I don't advocate for violence against "anyone I disagree with". I politely disagree with people all the time and am quite peaceful about it.

The only creatures I've ever advocated violence for are fascists and nazis. As it turns out, nearly all conservatives just happen to fit into those two flavors of conservatism.

[-] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Guess I’m 2/2 today.

More like two number 2s.

[-] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

3 if you count yourself.

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