Comment on Did Obama Becoming President Make People Hide Their Racism?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Evidence it sent racists into a tailspin of racism:
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Assertion that he was not actually American citizen, born in Kenya.
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Assertion that Michele Obama is actually trans and their daughters are adopted.
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Tan suit. Don’t have to say much more about this one. Tons of people have worn tan suits without being hassled about it. I wonder why they hassled Obama specifically about it?
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In early July 2010, the North Iowa Tea Party (NITP) posted a billboard showing a photo of Adolf Hitler with the heading “National Socialism”, one of Barack Obama with the heading “Democrat Socialism”, and one of Vladimir Lenin with the heading “Marxist Socialism”, all three marked with the word “change” and the statement “Radical leaders prey on the fearful and naive”.
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Google is doing a pretty damn good job of throwing these ones down the memory hole, but there were a massive number of photoshops of Obama as a monkey.
This was when he was running for President and while he was President. Those are just examples off the top of my head.
I don’t even like Obama. He let war criminals off the hook and then legalized and codified the worst excesses of the War on Terror under Bush.
But it’s clear as hell that his mere existence made conservatives lose their fucking minds and they’ve never come back from it.
BadmanDan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Holy! Never knew any of that. I wasn’t on social media that much during his presidency, so whatever the news showed is what I saw. And obviously they weren’t showing this insanity at the forefront. Thank you for this, gonna check it all out.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Plenty of internet photos of white people wearing shirts that said things like “put the white back in the White House” or “It’s called the White House for a reason.” Racism was rampant and on public display.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
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Hegar@kbin.social 7 months ago
I always thought of romney as the republican's plan C. If White Supremacy fails, and More White Supremacy fails, then they might try Quieter White Supremacy.
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 7 months ago
Ewww
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There it is. The other shirt I couldn’t find, but I remember seeing it on a shirt someone had photographed on a motorcycle rider.