| steven787 said: It's not about stereotypes. It's about a political party using the POTUS's race as a joke-song. It wouldn't be right about anybody. I would like to think we are above making fun of each other over race, especially the President. Make fun of his demeanor, make fun of his intelligence, make fun of his liberal agenda, make fun of his policy. Do not make fun of his race. This isn't a case of libs calling Republicans racist, it's a case of Republicans saying "We are racist". How freaking clever, you took a mythical creature and compared him to the president by using a word that is offensive in the United States. Brilliant. They need to cut this crap out if they want to win elections in states that aren't made up largely of racists (which is a diminishing pool of states). |
Please read up on the situation before trying to define the situation. This has nothing to do with a party using the POTUS's race as a joke-song...you're pretty far off from the facts to even suggest it let alone say it plainly.
The song was made well before he was POTUS so that angle is kind of ridiculous. It was written by someone who has no affiliation with republican party other than that he is probably a registered republican and makes songs for RL's show. He makes a living doing political parodies and given his line of work it is an appropriate song. I could show you a number of comedians who tell jokes that would be highly innapropriate (far more so than this) for a politician to perform...its just one of those double standards where a comedian is accepted as simply being funny and having no malicious intent but a politician is overly scrutinized to death and assumed guilty until proven innocent in most cases (which is why its simply moronic for him to have gotten involved with it at all).
As for the republican party's involvement, you're just showing your feathers as a partisan here. The party has nothing to do with this story and it plays right back into the irony I was referring to before to even suggest so. This is one politician who made a stupid choice to give someone else's CD as a gift and he erroneously thought it would be laughed off. The guy deserves scorn for being an idiot for sure, but to label someone a racist for this diminishes the true meaning of the word. Someone labeling him a racist for this is more likely to make me view them as a racebaiter than to see him as a racist.
The guy isn't a racist, he is just an ignorant moron. To suggest he is racist is silly, and to try to suggest that his entire party is racist is flat-out farcical.
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