Again, I'll do the same for you. Look up the creation of the dog whistle. Lee Atwater.
I guess its a big coincidence time and time again Republicans keep referring to black people as monkeys and/or animals
Again, I'll do the same for you. Look up the creation of the dog whistle. Lee Atwater.I've heard the phrase before and I also remember Kelly and the "an empty barrel" nonsense. At some point common sense should kick in and people realize that not everything that is stupid is racist, and no I don't defend "blatantly racist comments".
How do you know a racist? When the sun has just set and there's a black man in a crowd then someone says "it's getting dark outside".
Reserve ire for things we know are racist, not just what we hope are.
Again, I'll do the same for you. Look up the creation of the dog whistle. Lee Atwater.
I guess its a big coincidence time and time again Republicans keep referring to black people as monkeys and/or animals
Maybe just a poor choice of words but kind of a semi-serious political mistake to make the day after winning the primary considering the opponent. That's the best case here.
I've heard the phrase before and I also remember Kelly and the "an empty barrel" nonsense. At some point common sense should kick in and people realize that not everything that is stupid is racist, and no I don't defend "blatantly racist comments".
How do you know a racist? When the sun has just set and there's a black man in a crowd then someone says "it's getting dark outside".
Reserve ire for things we know are racist, not just what we hope are.
DeSantis is 40 fucking years old. If he doesn't have a sense and/of knowledge of history then he shouldn't be running.I'll do this for you. Don't always attribute to malice that which can be explained by ignorance. That is also valid. I have no idea why this dolt picked this phrase, but it looks like a euphemism for don't fuch Florida up by voting for this guy.
Every single time the Republicans decided to pick the most trivial matter about what Obama might have meant they looked more and more like idiots. Of course "they" were right, just ask "them".
Of all the things that could be focused on the demand that this means something racist is foolish. Like I told the Reps back in the Birther days, stop focusing on what you can't prove and instead inspect policies and propose alternatives that make sense to Americans.
Didn't happen.
I don't want to let my internet friends become Republicans.
Mate Silver had a tweet stating there were 17K google results for that phrase. Almost all of them were related to this story.
Clearly not a common idiom.
Is that the polite way to say you're old as shit?really? Common enough for me. I think it's a generational thing.
Closer to 100 than I am 0 and I have never heard this phrase used...
OK. Show me any evidence of DeSantis ever using this phrase before about a white person, or any other thing for that matter.
Howard Cosell was innocent, because he had a long history of using the phrase about his own grandchildren.
But DeSantis is never on record EVER using this phrase before.
DeSantis is 40 fucking years old. If he doesn't have a sense and/of knowledge of history then he shouldn't be running.
Watched this DeSantis campaign ad video. I thought it might be satire at first, but no, it's real. Speaking of monkeys, looks like Trump is an organ grinder.
I was waiting for the tag line "because Trump won't let me suck his dick in person" at the end....Now that's something I can agree with. He knows or ought to know that everything he says will be put under a microscope just like any major political figure.
Ever heard the expressions "monkey around" or "muck this up?" I've never heard "monkey this up" before either. Then again, what I have heard is people frequently use variations of common idioms. People in general just do not speak all that precisely.