Okay, then why did you change your name from Nimarata to Nikki?
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Such a good burn. Haley the randhawa punjabi. I wonder how many of her supporters even know she's of Indian decent.
See that's the thing, Republicans won't care about it until they really will. They can conveniently forget they hate minorites as long as the minority person is being as racist if not more racist and hateful than them. How do you think Thomas stays the token black friend of the GOP? How do you think the prick with a last name Cruz still stays in power in Texas no less? Same story has played out hundreds of times but people never learn that the "in" group always shrinks away from them
I don’t know what you’re implying. Also, you’re racist for asking the question. Over here in GOP-land, we don’t see color.
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Colbert made that joke for a decade and never once did conservatives realize it was pointed at them.
My Canadian uncle changed the spelling of his name to Luke from Luc to avoid having to explain the differences between English and French. Also my uncle is a douche.
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Haley: "The libs called it 'slavery', but I like to call it 'job placement'."
The prisoners with jobs...
The constitution is quite racist. Has she never looked at the constitution? Oh right yeah, republican, she hasn't. Hey Nimarata, they later famously had to add a whole amendment to add equal protection under the law regardless of race, after you know, that whole civil war thing.
It was hard to get dumber after her civil war comments, but she found a way. This is even more mental gymnastics than all that lost cause BS. Like holy crap, you can't glance at any time period of American history without racism or its effects rearing its ugly head.
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Republicans are mentally defective.
Which would be fine, if they would keep that to themselves. Unfortunately, they want to rule over the rest of us.
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As a counterpoint, have you seen gestures broadly?
The genocide essential to America’s foundation would disagree, you dumb ugly cunt.
Also the whole 'black people are 3/5 of a human' thing in our founding document.
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Sartre quote time https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7870768-never-believe-that-anti-semites-are-completely-unaware-of-the-absurdity
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
They're just saying stuff. They may or may not believe it but that's irrelevant.
Yes, of course. All those "independent contractors" that we imported from Africa were free to go whenever they wanted to. And who can forget the indigenous peoples who we "peacefully repopulated" into tax-free reservations. What, me racist? Surely you jest! /s
What about the time we enslaved people who weren’t white for over a century and then almost split in half over it?
Then after that the segregation, lynching, shootings, fetishization, housing bans, zoning laws...
Really racist every step of the way.
I'd add the movement against reparations as well. So many studies have shown how various types of Jim Crow laws devastated black generational wealth in ways that won't be fixed for a very long time. And still people think reparations are not owed since they weren't recently enough a slave.
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and then almost split in half over it?
She already said that wasn't about slavery. She's fucking nuts.
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Here’s the intro from Mississippi’s declarations of causes for seceding from the US:
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin. That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference to a few facts will sufficiently prove.
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If you want to see what the other states said as their primary reasons for trying to leave the United States, just read the first couple sentences under every state’s name. Spoiler alert, the south was super into African slaves.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states#mississippi
Barbara Fields' full interview about the civil war clears up a lot of this "it's about slavery" nonsense. Some of the stories and correspondence she reads from former slaves are incredibly powerful, I shared my favorite below. The central point she makes throughout the interview:
“it was the battle for emancipation and the people who pushed it forward… it was they who ennobled what otherwise would have been meaningless carnage into something higher. When a black solder in New Orleans said “liberty must take the day nothing shorter” he said in effect that when we count out those who have died and survey the carnage is must be for something higher than Union and free navigation of the Mississippi River”
Spotswood Rice, a former slave, writes to Kittey Diggs, 1864:
I received a letter from Cariline telling me that you say I tried to steal, to plunder, my child away from you. Not I want you to understand that Mary is my Child and she is a God-given rite of my own. And you may hold on to her as long as you can. But I want you to remember this one thing, that the longer you keep my Child from me the longer you will have to burn in hell and the quicker you’ll get there. For we are now making up about one thousand black troops to come up through, and want to come through, Glasgow. And when we come woe be to Copperhood rebels and to the Slaveholding rebels. For we don’t expect to leave them there. Root nor branch. But we think however that we (that have children in the hands of you devils), we will try you the day that we enter Glasgow. I want you to understand Kittey Diggs that where ever you and I meet we are enemies to each other. I offered once to pay you forty dollars for my own Child but I am glad now that you did not accept it. Just hold on now as long as you can and the worse it will be for you. You never in your life before I came down here did you give children anything, not anything whatever, not even a dollars worth of expenses. Now you call my children your property. Not so with me. My children is my own and I expect to get them. And when I get ready to come after Mary I will have both a power and authority to bring her away and to exact vengeance on them that holds my Child. You will then know how to talk to me. I will assure that. And you will know how to talk right too. I want you now to just hold on; to hear if you want to. If your conscience tells that’s the road, go that road and what it will bring you to Kittey Diggs. I have no fears about getting Mary out of your hands. This whole Government gives cheer to me and you cannot help yourself.
(It’s not known if Spotswood had a showdown with Kittey but there are property records indicating he lived with Mary and his wife after the war.)
The civil war was about states rights.
What a cow.
Keep in mind that Republicans live in an entirely different universe. For them, sentences like that may actually make sense, how would people from good old earth know? And who knows, maybe their next big thing is "Unicorns are real".
Once again, she knows where her racist bread is buttered with white supremacist margarine.
Her self hating ass has always been willing to sell out minorities for money.
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This has to have been taken out of context....
“No. We’re not a racist country, Brian. We’ve never been a racist country,” Haley said in response.
Well shit. At least she's sticking to her guns....
“I know, I faced racism when I was growing up. But I can tell you, today is a lot better than it was then,” Haley said.
...so she's an idiot.
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Didn't she say she was bullied for being brown?
*Yes according to the TLDR bot. Boy the mental gymnastics.
She's really having a lot of trouble remembering American history.
A lot of New Hampshire boys died fixing some of the racist problems of this country.
You got to win in NH before going full Dixie.
Amateur.
So the people who had slaves and wrote the Constitution and shit weren't racist? Hmmm 🤔
Question: Do you think pre-civil rights America would have forced Nimrata Randhawa Haley to use the colored entrance to a movie theater? Or would she be allowed to use the entrance reserved exclusively for whites?
Silly question! It doesn't matter because America has never been a racist country! Next question!
According to Florida history curriculum, she's right.
Bitch, we were the template for the Nazis. The fuck you mean we weren't racist? Are racist, in most aspects.
Reagan could get away with using dog whistles. Trump said the quiet part out loud and now there's no going back.
Cool, so I guess the Race Riots were incorrectly named, and segregation never happened. Phew!
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Replace 'never' with 'always', and it'd be a factual statement. She's a coward trying desperately to just fade into the background now without having any facists follow her home. I have no sympathy for her.
And therein lies her confusion with the root cause of the Civil War...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Haley whether she thinks the GOP is a “racist party.”
Drawing on her experience as “a brown girl that grew up in a small rural town in South Carolina,” Haley said she has experienced racism in the past but doesn’t want to raise her children to think they’re disadvantaged — a point she’s made before.
She added: “I don’t want my kids growing up where they’re sitting there thinking that they’re disadvantaged because of a color or a gender.
At a campaign event in recent weeks, Haley was asked about the cause of the Civil War, and she omitted any mention of slavery.
The discussion about racism came after Haley was asked to respond to a clip from an MSNBC host saying, “The elephant in the room, she’s still a brown lady that’s got to try to win in a party that is deeply anti-immigrant.
Haley responded by saying her credentials reveal the “American dream,” adding, “You can sit there and give me all the reasons why you think I can’t do this.
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instead of teaching your kids that they're disadvantaged by racism just let them suffer and think it's their own fault if bad things happen to them :)
Ok Nimarata! I mean Nikki!
Hahahahahaha that’s a good one, oh wait she’s serious…
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