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Ta-Nahisi Coates: Trump's only real ideology is white supremacy
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:11 pm
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His political career began in advocacy of birtherism, that modern recasting of the old American precept that black people are not fit to be citizens of the country they built. But long before birtherism, Trump had made his worldview clear. He fought to keep blacks out of his buildings, according to the U.S. government; called for the death penalty for the eventually exonerated Central Park Five; and railed against “lazy” black employees. “Black guys counting my money! I hate it,” Trump was once quoted as saying. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” After his cabal of conspiracy theorists forced Barack Obama to present his birth certificate, Trump demanded the president’s college grades (offering $5 million in exchange for them), insisting that Obama was not intelligent enough to have gone to an Ivy League school, and that his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, had been ghostwritten by a white man, Bill Ayers.
It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself. White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, is specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy—the target is so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men. That the slur cuck casts white men as victims aligns with the dicta of whiteness, which seek to alchemize one’s profligate sins into virtue. So it was with Virginia slaveholders claiming that Britain sought to make slaves of them. So it was with marauding Klansmen organized against alleged rapes and other outrages. So it was with a candidate who called for a foreign power to hack his opponent’s email and who now, as president, is claiming to be the victim of “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history.”
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Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:13 pm to Bench McElroy
What does Rennis Rinke think about this?
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:13 pm to Bench McElroy
Ta-Nahisi Coates is the most overrated "intellectual" since Kissinger.
This post was edited on 9/7/17 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:14 pm to Bench McElroy
Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome. Incurable and best to just ignore.
This post was edited on 9/7/17 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:14 pm to Bench McElroy
Am I the only one who clicked this expecting it to be a GN thread?
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:14 pm to Bench McElroy
The Atlantic really has gone downhill
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:15 pm to Bench McElroy
Just because you use "truculent" correctly in a sentence after making your point doesn't make your point right.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:16 pm to RogerTheShrubber
The demise of both VICE and The Atlantic to their current state is one of the more depressing things in the history of journalism.
This post was edited on 9/7/17 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:16 pm to Bench McElroy
I'm having trouble taking anybody named Ta-Nashi Coates seriously.Please explain why I should care.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:16 pm to Bench McElroy
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Ta-Nahisi Coates: Trump's only real ideology is white supremacy
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:16 pm to Bench McElroy
After yesterday, does this mean Pelosi and Schumer are nazis now too?
Has to. Can't have it both ways.
Oh wait, we are talking about illogical, emotional, lying Progressives here.
Has to. Can't have it both ways.
Oh wait, we are talking about illogical, emotional, lying Progressives here.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:17 pm to Bench McElroy
This narrative is beyond pathetic
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:17 pm to Bench McElroy
And Coates' only ideology is black victimhood. Everything is a nail when you're a hammer.
This post was edited on 9/7/17 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:19 pm to Bench McElroy
Now hear this:
Maintaining an orderly and civilized society is 'white supremacy'.
Maintaining an orderly and civilized society is 'white supremacy'.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:20 pm to boosiebadazz
He's essentially a more "intellectual" and more effective Shaun King. He has perfected his niche of highbrow race-baiting in a way that doesn't seem like it's race-baiting even though it's the most blatant fricking race-baiting that exists.
Posted on 9/7/17 at 12:22 pm to nerd guy
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He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and the forthcoming book We Were Eight Years in Power.
That tells me his only ideology is Black Power, racist prick.
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