Brown People Shocked, SHOCKED!, To Discover Racist Republicans Despise Brown People
How could the party of the KKK and Neo-Nazis be hostile to brown people?! HOW?!
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One of the first things I said after the election in which an awful lot of non-white people voted for a literal white nationalist and his openly white nationalist platform was that a lot of leopards were going to be eating a lot of faces. Trump isn’t even in office yet and them leopards is getting so very fat. How do they have time to scarf down all those faces?! Nom nom nom.
Normally, I would feel at least a LITTLE bad about that sort of thing but…nah. Fuck y’all. You capered for white trash, hoping they would only hurt the OTHER brown folk and leave you alone. You thought that maybe if you groveled hard enough, they would accept you into the tribe and make you one of them. Safe from white supremacy at last.
We told you that shit wasn’t going to work. The key word in “white nationalist” is “WHITE” and you ain’t it. But you didn’t listen. As predicted, the racism is flowing thick and heavy and Ossiana Tepfenhart has been all over it:
Did anyone else notice how many conservative Indian voters are appalled by the latest actions of the GOP? Now that they’re seeing Republican voters casting aspersions toward their race, they’re upset.
The sudden shakeup all started when Trump reneged on his promise to get rid of H-1B visas. White conservatives quickly went into an uproar, accusing the GOP of devaluing white American workers.
Shannon and I talked about the H-1B visa brawl on this week’s podcast. I’m still catching up on the news from the last couple of weeks after taking some time off but this was the least surprising thing that’s happened so far.
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The Republican Party cultivated a base of rabid racists back in the 60s. Reagan was practically a Neo-Confederate. W. Bush was a theocratic Neo-Crusader. Trump has been a fan of Hitler since long before he thought politics would be a fun way to scam the public out of billions. The Tea Party was explicitly about maintaining white supremacy. The alt-right is explicitly about white nationalism. MAGA is just a mindless scream of white rage.
Elon Musk and his fellow tech bro oligarchs clearly do not understand this because they do not live in the real world. They live in a bubble where everyone tells them what they want to hear at all times. That’s how you end up with Musk, the current owner of the Republican Party, saying something as laughably stupid as the “hateful, unrepentant racists” in the GOP are “contemptible fools [who] must be removed from the Republican Party, root and stem.”
So…Musk wants to remove…90% of the GOP’s base? I mean, OK? But good luck winning an election after that.
Oh yeah yeah yeah…not all Republicans are racist. Fuck off. Trump ran the most explicitly racist campaign since George Wallace screamed about segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. Trump voters don’t get to pretend they didn’t notice. They absolutely fucking did. What so many of the non-white Trump voters told themselves was that the racism wasn’t directed at THEM. It was only directed at those OTHER brown people.
It’s been a major phenomenon on Reddit and TikTok. On Reddit’s r/LeopardsAteMyFace, Indian immigrants who benefit from H-1B visas are now beginning to wonder if they sided with the bad guys.
Tepfenhart pulled that from Reddit and it’s just…mwah! Chef’s kiss. Of course there are no consequences for far-right influencers spewing hate speech and lies. That is, quite literally, the only thing the far right knows how to do. If they were to speak the truth, they would burst into flames. Without disinformation, the modern right ceases to exist.
But Sidharth, and all of those like him, knew this, even if they won’t cop to it. They assumed that if they licked the boots of their oppressors and joined in the lynchings of other brown people, they would be welcomed with open arms.
Look at all of the Latinos who voted for Trump because they hate undocumented immigrants. The vast majority of them are related to some of those awful awful undocumented or are the descendants of them. But, you know, “I got mine, fuck you,” right? What could be more white and Republican than that?
But that doesn’t work if you’re not actually white. This is the thing performative whiteness fails to understand. You cannot stop being the thing they hate. They will always hate you.
History says otherwise, though, right? The Irish and Italians and Germans used to be considered “not white” and now look at them! They’re some of the most racist parts of the MAGA movement! But while some Latinos can pass as white, a whole lot of them cannot. The same goes for Indians and Asians and Blacks etc. etc. They can polish the boots of fascists to a brilliant shine with their tongue but they’re never going to be anything but tokens and here’s a saying I haven’t heard before but, fuck me, it really captures the moment:
There’s a reason why activists always warn others that “tokens always get spent.” - Ossiana Tepfenhart
“Tokens always get spent.” Oh yeah. MAGA got the votes of the useful idiots and now they’re tossing them aside. They don’t need, and they certainly do not want, Indian-Americans in their party. At the same time, Latinos are about to discover that, to a white nationalist, there is no difference between a “good” Latino and a “bad” one. They’re all a problem that needs a solution. A…final solution, if you will. America can’t be great again until it’s white again1 and that only happens when the Latinos are gone. Not some of the Latinos. ALL of the Latinos. Except maybe a few can stick around to clean toilets and pick fruit in the fields. Maybe.
So when the immigration raids start and legal immigrants and US citizens start getting scooped up, watch for the shock and horror of Latinos who voted for Trump. They’ll be the ones who swore he would only go after the “bad” immigrants, not good law-abiding ones.
But, of course, they broke the only law that counts: The law of white nationalism. They were brown in a country run by literal Nazis.
If only someone had warned them that the Republican Party hates brown people. If only.
Oh, well. I’m going to be over here buttering my popcorn with the salty tears of Trump voters who thought only the people they hated would suffer. Don’t ask me to shed a single tear for their plight. This is what they voted for. They fucked around and now they’re going to find out.
There are 297 days until the first Blue Wave and it starts in Virginia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
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In the fictional past that never existed outside of the delusional rantings of racist white people.
I get frustrated by the "Dems need to message better" or "Dems are out of touch with..." arguments. I find it be exhaustively lazy especially when dozens of other factors aren't even brought to bear for consideration in those arguments. On the flip side, people also need to fucking listen, observe, and think (stop laughing). Often times they won't pay attention to a tap on the shoulder they have to get hit with a sledghammer in order to realize what's actually happening...and many times it's too late.
I don't want people to suffer from Donnie's horrifying policies...but they will (unfortunately it'll effect those that didn't vote for him). Maybe that will be the sledgehammer that will do what it needs to cause listening, observing, and thinking the next time they vote.
Pointing out that MAGAts are hateful racists is the same as pointing out that the sky is blue and water is wet. I'm not convinced that Musk's outrage bait is nothing more than a propaganda smokescreen. The core of his interests are simple: money & efforts to expand his business interests (see Russia, India, Germany, UK, and his failed bid in Brazil, which has moved his sight towards Venezuela) and avoid government oversight and regulation. It makes him more of a contemptible piece of [wealthy] white trash, but it makes his stans worse. The fact that he's rightly pointing out the demographics of the GOP base is almost lost in the noise.