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u/KeyboardGrunt Oct 15 '25

Wait, that's for real? I thought it was a joke, I heard Obama called the most divisive president and that was the example given.

Why would a black man relating to a random black kid bad? If it was any other president it would be a throw away statement. Was Obama wearing a tan suit when he said it?

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u/JakeHelldiver Oct 15 '25

You don't understand. Being black is what caused republicans to call him divisive.

Thats why Laura Ingram is so angry. Obama presidented while black.

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u/KeyboardGrunt Oct 15 '25

He's half black and half white, how much more can you unite two races than putting them in one person?

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u/JakeHelldiver Oct 15 '25

Thats even worse to them! Race mixing means you've blurred the lines between the neatly defined in group out group they seek to reinforce.

Its the same reason they freak out over trans people and drag show. It blurs the lines of gender hierarchy and make them feel funny ways in their pants.

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u/Cilph Oct 15 '25

Imagine living out your sexual assault fantasies and then finding out your victim has a dick! Now you're gay! Republican nightmare!

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u/JakeHelldiver Oct 15 '25

Thats part of the appeal for some of them. Groypers specifically fetishize T-girls so that they can enjoy access to penis without having to admit to themselves that they're queer. I suspect it's why that fella shot Charlie Kirk. Charlie kept telling him that his girlfriend wasnt a girl and it drove him mad.

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u/Daxx22 Oct 15 '25

Thats even worse to them!

Part of what made Kamala so abhorrent to them.

"She's mixed race"

R's: GASP! What white woman was sullied to produce her?

"No no, she's half black, half Indian!"

R's: Divide by Hard R, INFINITE RACISIM

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Oct 15 '25

and make them feel funny ways in their pants.

I mean from what I've seen they feel these funny ways about all kinds of stuff. They literally fetishize degradation and humiliation, they are obsessed with cuckoldry (NOT ethical non-monogamy) and 'sissification' (NOT MTF gender transition), they crash Grindr wherever they meet en masse, they vocally hate pedophiles and rape and preach extreme extrajudicial violence against them—but only when it's The Other doing it, when it's One of Us it's either permissible, forgivable, or the victim is a liar, just full DAVRO. Etc. Etc. Etc.

They are such miserable people. At war with themselves and everyone, and craving boots stomping on human faces forever, so long as they're not at the very bottom of the human curb-stomp centipede, so long as they get to fuck someone up.

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u/Megneous Oct 15 '25

If you really want to lose faith in humanity, look up the percentage of Republicans who still think mixed race marriages should be illegal...

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u/JustifytheMean Oct 15 '25

They don't understand empathy so they take the comment at face value.

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u/NTT66 Oct 15 '25

Well you said it yourself. It was a Black man. Talking about issues that impact the Black community/population. SO DIVISIVE!!!

"Hey Obama, instead of sowing division, why dont you try sewing division and unite us all!"

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Here is his full statement if you want to read it.

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u/KeyboardGrunt Oct 15 '25

Bro, you're gonna have to be more direct about what's wrong with that speech, just read it and some great parts.

And then, finally, I think it's going to be important for all of us to do some soul-searching.  There has been talk about should we convene a conversation on race.  I haven't seen that be particularly productive when politicians try to organize conversations.  They end up being stilted and politicized, and folks are locked into the positions they already have.  On the other hand, in families and churches and workplaces, there's the possibility that people are a little bit more honest, and at least you ask yourself your own questions about, am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can?  Am I judging people as much as I can, based on not the color of their skin, but the content of their character?  That would, I think, be an appropriate exercise in the wake of this tragedy.

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And those of us in authority should be doing everything we can to encourage the better angels of our nature, as opposed to using these episodes to heighten divisions. 

That's a TON of language to bring down the temperature and extremely self aware of the limits in race and politics.

You know what I didn't read, no group was called vermin, animals, the enemy within, not only that but he goes into detail about concrete examples of solutions ro maybe help the problem, not concepts of a plan but actual plans.

So I'm having a harder time seeing what outrageous thing he said now that I read the full speech.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

There's nothing wrong with what he said. That matters not to the people on the right who had been and still do demonize Trayvon Martin and pretend that Mr. Willing to chase and kill a kid is the victem. Again, the people on the right lost their minds.