• Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Racist Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) has joined the disproportionately vocal minority of racists who were unimpressed by Beyoncé at the Grammy Awards last Sunday because she’s black.

    Write it like the truth, because anything else downplays how awful these people are.

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    5 months ago

    When someone who’s never accomplished anything impressive sees someone who has, if they’re a piece of shit, their reaction is to attack that person.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    (White person gets a job or wins an award)

    GOP: I see no racism here

    (Anyone but a white person gets a job or wins an award)

    GOP: Reverse racism!!!

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      This is basically their “all fronts” approach to walk back perceptions. It’s about controlling the narrative so that it’s ingrained in the psyche that there’s an airs of illegitimacy around anything a minority does.

      It’s entirely rooted in their supremacist playbook.

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    5 months ago

    so fucking crazy and illogical that it’s just a distraction and not real

    “look over here while we implement Project 2025! Beyonce! DEI! What’s your opinion?! Let’s engage in a racist and pointless debate about whether Beyonce deserves singing accolades while we ready the wall for women who get abortions.”

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    Who cares? Of course they are going to say ridiculous things, that’s what they do. And the Grammys are stupid bullshit where mascots like beyoncé get to claim credit for the work actual musicians did. It isn’t dei, just capitalism. I don’t think beyoncé ever wrote a song in her life, so what is the award for being the best singer? Because she’s not that either…