Donald Trump tweets 'Pocahontas' racist slur about senator Elizabeth Warren
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[quote]Donald Trump has repeated one of his favourite political slurs, referring to the Democrat senator Elizabeth Warren as "Pocahontas" in reference to her self-proclaimed Native American background.
The President regularly referred to Ms Warren using the racist term on the campaign trail, before he won the presidency almost exactly one year ago.
In a Twitter post on Friday, Mr Trump said: "Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept."
Mr Trump has previously said he regrets using the term. In an interview with Fox News in June 2016, he said: “I do regret calling her Pocahontas, because I think it’s a tremendous insult to Pocahontas.
"So to Pocahontas, I would like to apologise to you."[/quote]
[url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-pocahontas-elizabeth-warren-senator-racist-slur-tweet-twitter-democrat-native-american-a8035401.html]Source: The Independent[/url]
[media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/926417546038923264[/media]
Not even trying to sugarcoat the racism anymore.
All of this is going to make it so much sweeter when he's led out in handcuffs. Absolutely appalling human being.
That tweet is even less coherent than his usual rantings. He's definitely losing it.
He's used this before apparently, I can't believed I missed it.
He's a racist cunt. We knew this but this confirms it even more.
Lmao, what does he not understand about the president(himself) not interfering or influencing actions and investigations by the DOJ and FBI..
"FBI, do something! Hillary!" What a tool Trump is.
There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.
It's not mocking native Americans. It's mocking Warren for being as white as anyone and trying to claim minority status.
[QUOTE=Spleet;52851129]Lmao, what does he not understand about the president(himself) not interfering or influencing actions and investigations but the DOJ and FBI..[/QUOTE]
Nothing. He'd be a dictator if he was smart enough how to do it.
Men like Trump are only held back by their own incompetence. If we were dealing with an actual competent Trump, it'd have been over by now.
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[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.[/QUOTE]
Her ancestry isn't confirmed but how do you know she's 1/16 and there's no proof?
And yeah it is racist whether she's Native American or not, it's a clear insult against female Native Americans...
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.[/QUOTE]
Would it be any better if he tweeted "That nigger Elizabeth Warren..." even though she isn't black? The point is he used a slur in an official capacity as president. That's unacceptable.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.[/QUOTE]
Lmao nothing racist about it? Can I go around calling black women Rosa Parks? Call Chinese women Mulan?
The "percentage" of the target race in an individual does not make the insult any less racist.
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1/16 is all you need to declare native american status in the US btw. So you're wrong on pretty much all levels.
[QUOTE=Spleet;52851129]Lmao, what does he not understand about the president(himself) not interfering or influencing actions and investigations by the DOJ and FBI..
"FBI, do something! Hillary!" What a tool Trump is.[/QUOTE]
he understands that jeff sessions will bend and break regulations for him
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134][I]There's nothing racist about it.[/I] The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.[/QUOTE]
You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.
It's not mocking native Americans. It's mocking Warren for being as white as anyone and trying to claim minority status.[/QUOTE]
It's a shitty racist tweet coming from trump, a shitty racist gnome.
1/16th means at most a 4 generation seperation between you and a full blooded Native American, and that doesnt take into account more recent infusions of native american or that genes dont transfer like that.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it.[/QUOTE]
like pottery
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.
It's not mocking native Americans. It's mocking Warren for being as white as anyone and trying to claim minority status.[/QUOTE]
Suppose you're partially Hispanic and I say "Hey Pedro, you're full of shit", would that not be racist? Maybe something more obvious like "Nigger Jim"? It doesn't matter if you are or aren't even 1/100 of that ethnicity, racist terminology is [I]still[/I] racist.
[QUOTE=Eva-1337;52851245]Suppose you're partially Hispanic and I say "Hey Pedro, you're full of shit", would that not be racist? Maybe something more obvious like "Nigger Jim"? It doesn't matter if you are or aren't even 1/100 of that ethnicity, racist terminology is [I]still[/I] racist.[/QUOTE]
One of my high school teachers referred to one of the classmates as a "beaner"
But it's totally not racist haha I mean Mexicans use lots of beans in dishes so it makes sense and it's not racist! :v: /s
If it's not racist then it's still dumb and disrespectful, the president shouldn't be saying it regardless.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.
It's not mocking native Americans. It's mocking Warren for being as white as anyone and trying to claim minority status.[/QUOTE]
... she's "only like 1/16" but there's no proof? :thinking:
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851134]There's nothing racist about it. The joke is that she claimed to be Native American, but she's only like 1/16 with no proof at all.
It's not mocking native Americans. It's mocking Warren for being as white as anyone and trying to claim minority status.[/QUOTE]
It's a derogatory nickname based purely on race, lol, that doesn't justify it or make it not racist. It'd be like calling a very light skinned african-american "blackface"
when his twitter account was deleted it must've made him so mad he went back in time because hes still talking about the election
Why are you all comparing the name "Pocahontas" to racial slurs? If anything it would be like calling someone "George Washington" for falsely claiming to be American.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851367]Why are you all comparing the name "Pocahontas" to racial slurs? If anything it would be like calling someone "George Washington" for falsely claiming to be American.[/QUOTE]
Would you go up to an elderly black woman and say "Hey look its rosa parks!"
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52851283]... she's "only like 1/16" but there's no proof? :thinking:[/QUOTE]
The 1/16 was an arbitrary number I threw out there. She has no proof at all. It could be 0% for all we know.
Remember, she claimed to be Native American to her employers, who in turn listed her as a minority professor.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851367]Why are you all comparing the name "Pocahontas" to racial slurs? If anything it would be like calling someone "George Washington" for falsely claiming to be American.[/QUOTE]
one is a kids cartoon and the other is a president
Its disrespectful because its clearly being used disrespectfully.
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851367]Why are you all comparing the name "Pocahontas" to racial slurs? If anything it would be like calling someone "George Washington" for falsely claiming to be American.[/QUOTE]
Because it's a fucking racial slur bro this isn't difficult
[QUOTE=Amber902;52851370]Would you go up to an elderly black woman and say "Hey look its rosa parks!"[/QUOTE]
... What? First, we're talking about mocking a person who ISN'T part of the race in question. So it would be like going up to a white person, who claimed to be African American, and saying "Hey, look, it's Rosa Parks" in order to mock the white person.
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[QUOTE=The Rifleman;52851381]Because it's a fucking racial slur bro this isn't difficult[/QUOTE]
Can you clarify its history as a racial slurs? Where was it used as such?
[QUOTE=sgman91;52851367]Why are you all comparing the name "Pocahontas" to racial slurs? If anything it would be like calling someone "George Washington" for falsely claiming to be American.[/QUOTE]
Sensitivity isn't something you seem to good at
The reason why it's a slur is because it reduces someone to just their race. It implies that they're defined solely by their heritage in a demeaning way, which is why it's wrong. Not that hard to grasp.
Imagine trying this hard to be blind to the most obvious case of racism.
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