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.
23 hour old account posts obvious psyop, Lemmy slurps it down like their 8th can of monster (this morning).
People here are fucking dumb, probably worse than Reddit.
unsurprisingly it's an account from programming.dev
Thank you.
I want to get something off my chest real quick: Lemmy is full of idiots!
Phew, that felt great. Sure, it doesn't actually qualify as getting something off my chest, but I can shoehorn my political opinions into this community because why not!
And hey, I probably agree with the wall of text, but highjacking communities for political posts is tiring.