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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 100 points 1 day ago (2 children)

(White person gets a job or wins an award)

GOP: I see no racism here

(Anyone but a white person gets a job or wins an award)

GOP: Reverse racism!!!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago

This is basically their "all fronts" approach to walk back perceptions. It's about controlling the narrative so that it's ingrained in the psyche that there's an airs of illegitimacy around anything a minority does.

It's entirely rooted in their supremacist playbook.

[–] NJSpradlin 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gods, take the crypto/tech bro young adults that are being hired by Elon and used to destroy and infiltrate sensitive government systems right the fuck now. The extreme disconnect between what’s happening and what they’re fake angry about is fucking wild.

‘Hiring and promotion practices that help emulate or better represent the population as a whole, to better enable minorities to grow equally with the majority population’ is wrong!’

But on the other end;

‘Let me hire my bro from college/from a wealthy donor family/from within my family/from a friend of the family, etc who is highly under qualified and has the sketchiest of loyalties but is loyal to me alone since I am making him from scratch and he owes me everything…’

And not a single republiklan sees anything wrong with it. Fucking hell. Even these comments on this website are going to bite me in the ass in the next year or so. I could lose my employment by not showing enough loyalty to our ‘golden god’ and his ‘crypto Jesus’. This is bonkers.

The Vice President of the United States said an openly racist, belligerently so with extremely racist online comments, shouldn’t have been canceled and should be able to keep his job at dismantling our US government systems. It blows my mind.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Always has been. This place sucks.