re: Leftist conedians and other pundits routinely say Trump looks like an orangutan

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bullshite!

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Following residency, Bowman served as chair of pathology at Provident Hospital. He was drafted again and spent 1953 to 1955 as chief of pathology for the Medical Nutrition Laboratory at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. After leaving the military Bowman decided to move overseas. "My wife and I decided that we were not going to go back to anything that smacked of segregation," he recalled. He became chair of pathology at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz, Iran. "We were recently married, so we took a chance," he said. "It changed our lives completely." Their daughter, Valerie, was born in Iran.[5] In Iran Bowman saw many diseases for the first time. "I saw smallpox, brucellosis, rabies, all sorts of things," he said. One of the most common diseases among certain ethnic groups in Iran was favism, a metabolic disease caused by an enzyme deficiency in red blood cells. The mutation, which is the most common human enzyme defect, renders those who have it unable to break down a toxin found in fava beans. Favism fit with Bowman's lifelong focus on inherited blood diseases and led to a series of important discoveries about the genetics of these diseases and the populations they affect, especially in the Middle East, Africa and America. It enabled him to travel all over the world collecting blood samples for DNA testing. It also led to frequent contacts and collaborations with University of Chicago researchers, who had first described the enzyme deficiency (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, or G6PD) and its connection with antimalarial medications.[5]

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Are you intimating that before this episode most Americans were aware of the color of Jarrett's parents?

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I'm just stating what I read

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This is a better than average politically informed group

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fricking just stop already

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No. You "fricking just stop already!"
Wake up!

More than 40% of Americans could not even name the VP candidates a couple of weeks prior to the 2016 election.
Got it?

100% here obviously could have not only named them, but cited their views and details of their strengths/weaknesses as candidates.

Given a population where 40% don't even know who the VP candidates were, WTF percentage would have a clue as to who Jarrett was/is, much less the racial make up of her progenitors, fool?!

Please. This place is an echo chamber. If people are saying they didn't know that she was black they're lying.

I'll go one further.

I'd place 2:1 odds that if you grabbed 100 people at random and asked them what they thought of Trump's senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, they'd give you an OPINION about her as an adviser!

I'd place those odds.....TODAY.........AFTER the controversy.

A month ago? shite. Near certainty.

And you want to sit in here and pretend that the general population would know her race?

frick. I'd place even money that Roseanne didn't know who the frick VJ was this time last year.

Idgaf if she’s black.

She looks just like the planet of the apes chick, and it was funny. Just like the Kathy Griffin thing - people need to lighten the frick up.

You do understand though why it's considered offensive to compare blacks to primates?

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Orangutan isn't synonymous with an entire race of people. Ape is.

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Do you even read or think about the things you post? That's an impressively stupid statement.

Also, ape isn't synonymous with a race or people. It's synonymous with all people. All humans belong to the zoological familial classification known as Great Apes.

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Sure

But Roseanne would definitely be in the knows who she is and what she looks like because she was commenting on her appearance.

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Well frick. I KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE and didn't know she was black.

I mean, now that I know it, I can see it..........but, this ain't exactly definitive.

frick. If you told me right now she was half Filipino and I didn't know better, I'd buy that too.

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I think that's fair. It's a balance between recognizing that America's history of truly abhorrent treatment of blacks isn't all that long ago

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Slavery was abolished 155 years ago. No human on this planet was alive. That's 6 generations ago, which is plenty of time to stop holding it against current white people.

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If you're a white person in the modern era using antiquated racial references from slave days you can expect there to be some consequences

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I think her show being cancelled was completely foreseeable and, were I an ABC exec, she'd have been cancelled still.

The clear difference being that you also wouldn't run around describing conservatives in this shittiest ways possible and continue to work for my network either.

Because. I would, just as with the NFL, recognize that my network hopes to appeal to as wide a cross section of the population as possible and that it doesn't serve my network's interest to become clearly known as only serving SOME of them.

The problem ABC has now is, there is no avoiding that Roseanne is nowhere NEAR first in the chute. When you're a network, you have two choices in this area.

ANYTHING goes, or NOTHING goes.

If you choose SOME of it goes, then you are taking sides and your potential customers will notice.