All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Animavore]

Native American ambassador. National Diversity Council for Trump.

[Animavore]

Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.nydaily ... utType=amp

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/covin ... ack-paint/

[Animavore]

Without fanfare or even notice, the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women made significant changes to its definition of domestic violence in April. The Obama-era definition was expansive, vetted by experts including the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Domestic Violence Hotline. The Trump administration’s definition is substantially more limited and less informed, effectively denying the experiences of victims of abuse by attempting to cast domestic violence as an exclusively criminal concern.

The previous definition included critical components of the phenomenon that experts recognize as domestic abuse—a pattern of deliberate behavior, the dynamics of power and control, and behaviors that encompass physical or sexual violence as well as forms of emotional, economic, or psychological abuse. But in the Trump Justice Department, only harms that constitute a felony or misdemeanor crime may be called domestic violence. So, for example, a woman whose partner isolates her from her family and friends, monitors her every move, belittles and berates her, or denies her access to money to support herself and her children is not a victim of domestic violence in the eyes of Trump’s Department of Justice. This makes no sense for an office charged with funding and implementing solutions to the problem of domestic violence rather than merely prosecuting individual abusers.

https://slate.com/technology/2016/06/th ... thood.html

The party that elects abusers protects abusers.

[Tero]

Everyone seems to want to vilify the students, or the Indiginous 'stolen valour' jackass, but they aren't the real villain.

It's the media. Who was painting this and feeding it to us, and why?

I mean beyond the obvious 'get more clicks' bs

[Sean Hayden]

Do an image search for blackout games ani.

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence, or something like that. Or ignorance in this case.

[Sean Hayden]

It's not even ignorance really. Why should all blackface be tied to a very specific, brief period, in American history? It's silly when you think about it, or maybe myopic is the right word?

[Cunt]

Everyone seems to want to vilify the students, or the Indiginous 'stolen valour' jackass, but they aren't the real villain.

It's the media. Who was painting this and feeding it to us, and why?

I mean beyond the obvious 'get more clicks' bs

MAGA bomber.jpg

Yup. It is the media promoting a consistent 'hate the president' message that makes it so that everyone thinks it is ok to hate kids based on their 'Trump hat'.

It's no different than wearing an Obama hat.

The media created this. They will use every tragedy or conflict they can to push their 'hate the president' show.

There WILL be another school shooting, right? Do yourself a favour - feel empathy for the kids right now, so that when it happens, you can ignore that, and focus on how all the news channels are rushing to stand on the dead bodies, to promote one message or another.

[Animavore]

It's not even ignorance really. Why should all blackface be tied to a very specific, brief period, in American history? It's silly when you think about it, or maybe myopic is the right word?

Why don't you ask a black person?

Don't expect an answer from any white guy here.

[Sean Hayden]

Why don't I ask a black person what Ani? Why all blackface should be tied to a very specific and brief period in American history where racists bastids painted their faces black? I guess I could. If they tell me it's right that makes it right? --please-- Did you even look up blackout games?

So everyone is wearing black, and a few kids --just like a few people always do-- go further than their peers and paint their entire bodies black. There is simply no way to reasonably tie that to racist blackface. If you think there is, then give it a shot.

[Animavore]

Bollocks. The kids clearly have minstrel faces with the white around the mouths and eyes. They're not simply painted black.

[Tero]

It’s the president that hates. Because he never had a friend. He discovered he could be liked as a showman. His stunts usually involved insulting and offending people. Then he discovered other people hate brown people. I’ll run for president on that! The system favors states with white rural people!

[Cunt]

It's not even ignorance really. Why should all blackface be tied to a very specific, brief period, in American history? It's silly when you think about it, or maybe myopic is the right word?

Why don't you ask a black person?

Don't expect an answer from any white guy here.

You can't get a decent answer out of a social-media-justice-warrior. You need to ask someone who operates in meatspace.

[Sean Hayden]

Bollocks. The kids clearly have minstrel faces with the white around the mouths and eyes. They're not simply painted black.

You haven't looked it up. Do an image search. Don't assume, do a search.

[Animavore]

Bollocks. The kids clearly have minstrel faces with the white around the mouths and eyes. They're not simply painted black.

You haven't looked it up. Do an image search. Don't assume, do a search.

No. I'll trust my eyes.

[Sean Hayden]

Like it or not you're bringing assumptions to the table that act as filters on what you're seeing.

Try this assumption: in a group of people attempting to paint themselves black in order to intimidate an opposing team, what percentage will resemble racist blackface by coincidence alone?

Is it zero?