People are Going Ape Over DeSantis Comment

[Joe Guy]

Good point.

But I was referring to DeSantis, who Jim said is an intelligent person.

[Crackpot]

Intelellegent does not mean wise or free of personality disorders.

[Joe Guy]

Or free of spelling errors...

[Lord Jim]

Okay, I guess I was wrong to not realize that someone would create an enormous tidal wave of explosive outraged negative public response in order to get a positive response from people who already share his views.

Absolutely, and there's nothing "unintelligent" about it...

That strategy is a large part of how Donald Trump got elected, and DeSantis is trying to copy it...

Having people who already share your views is one thing; getting them fired up enough to turn out to vote for you is another...

[Joe Guy]

If DeSantis is copying Trump, he can't be as smart as you believe him to be.

[Sue U]

If DeSantis is copying Trump, he can't be as smart as you believe him to be.

For fuck's sake, Joe, it's Florida. Have you met Florida Man?

[Joe Guy]

Okay. Now I can see why DeSantis would want to be like Trump.

Thanks.

[Scooter]

Is one permitted to denounce as racist a robocall using stereotypical black dialect and jungle noises (and put out by a white supremacist organization), or does one risk being labelled as part of the "victim police" for identifying it as such?

[BoSoxGal]

Wait for the media to tell you how to feel, Scooter.

[Guinevere]

This is the “message” from the call:

"Well, hello there. I is Andrew Gillum."

"We Negroes . . . done made mud huts while white folk waste a bunch of time making their home out of wood an' stone."

The speaker goes on to say he'll pass a law letting African Americans evade arrest “if the Negro know fo' sho' he didn't do nothin'."

But I’m sure there was nothing racist intended at all

[Joe Guy]

If you're comparing that robocall to the statement made by DeSantis, you are either a card carrying victim or suffering from victimitis by proxy.

[Lord Jim]

Seems to me that it's pushing it a bit to insinuate that people who (incorrectly) fail to see DeSantis' race baiting intent are somehow also going to to fail to recognize the racism of this robocall...

[Guinevere]

Neither - but I am saying 1+ 1 = 2.

[Joe Guy]

1 baloney sandwich + 1 orange = 1 baloney sandwich + 1 orange

[RayThom]

1 baloney sandwich + 1 orange = 1 baloney sandwich + 1 orange

Well, JG, who can argue with that? You've crossed the Rubicon.

[Scooter]

From The Gospel According to Joe Guy:

I am the sole arbiter of what is and is not racist. Something is racist if and only if I say it is. Anyone who believes something to be racist when I have not declared it to be so by carving a stone tablet to that effect, is nothing but a pathetic whiner and a tool of the victim industrial complex. Their thoughts and feelings are of no value or consequence because they do not correspond precisely with my own, and they are worthless beings who don't really even deserve to be considered as human.

[Guinevere]

Exactly Scooter.

[wesw]

DO NOT RESIST

DO NOT RESIST

RESISTENCE IS FUTILE

DO NOT RESIST!!!!!!

[Lord Jim]

[Joe Guy]

From The Gospel According to Joe Guy:

blah blah blah.....

Some people are blinded by their own victimness...

I wrote that I don't believe that DeSantis intended to make a racist comment and I've shown how various uses of the word 'monkey' in a phrase are not racist. I also wrote that the media exploited this opportunity to put the idea out all around the universe that DeSantis is a racist and probably convinced a lot of people that never even heard of him that he is a racist. I also made the point that the media blitz was yet another opportunity to whine for those who are constantly looking for a reason to cry 'victim'.

And you've interpreted that to mean that I said that I decide what is and what is not racist?

I thought you were smarter than that.