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Just like 2016: The hate begins
By adamg on Thu, 11/07/2024 - 8:16pm
Students at both Curry College in Milton and Stoughton High School received text messages today telling them they've been selected to pick cotton "at the nearest plantation."
The Currier Times reports students at Curry and across the country got the texts.
Hateful and racist text messages sent to Curry College students overnight has led to increased vigilance on the Curry campus. Administrators said that other colleges were hit with the same, disturbing, messages.
Stoughton school officials report students of color at Stoughton High School received them as well.
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Stoughton High School, too
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19c1y3ELzW/
All 50 states
Mas text sent to black people. Even used our first names.
Pardon my langauge here
but what the fuck? And how the fuck?
Now that I'm paying attention to this, I see that there is a growing number of news articles about this happening nationwide, to Black people, by name.
It should go without saying that this is completely unacceptable and that anyone with any shred of basic human decency would agree with me. But here we are.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-people-text-messages-picking-c...
https://www.google.com/search?q=selected+to+pick+cotton+at+the+nearest+p...
White people just elected a white supremacist sympathizer
To federal office.
People saying we gotta go get food now before they switch the stores to whites only.
White folks said this type of sentiment isn't a big deal and decided Black People will be fine and should endure it.
With DT and his ilk running the country. Rest assured this is only the beginning.
If there's a silver lining
It's maybe the youngest voters can connect a culture of hatred to trump being elected and for once the young folks will step up and vote. It certainly did not happen this time around.
It sure didn't
It sure didn't. They voted -- for the other side.
Sorry, kids
It sucks but t this is the path America has chosen
No
It's the path that the most vile, hateful, ignorant Americans have chosen.
it’s amazing to me
that people are still trying to make this distinction
a plurality of americans just elected donald trump despite …everything he’s ever done
According to surveys
Many of the people voting for him did so only because they are angry with Democrats, not because they like Trump's racism. (Not to say some don't love his racism.)
Democrats need to be more than the Not Racist party to win. There are many things Democrats and those further left have done to alienate a majority of the country.
the old economic anxiety chestnut
doesn’t really hold up for me considering the totality of donald trump as a candidate. this isn’t mitt romney or whatever, this is a convicted felon whose platform nearly exclusively consists of racism, sexism, xenophobia, etc.
ETA: likewise, i’m not going to entertain the idea that moving to the right on social issues is a viable strategy for a party who claims to champion the marginalized. it might be true in terms of realpolitik or whatever, but for me it’s a morally repugnant thought experiment.
more practically, it would seem to me that a move to the right would only serve to exacerbate the appearance of hypocrisy among democrats.
You're missing the point
Democrats don't need to move to right on social issues, they need to make the case that their policies are good for everyone irrespective of race and identity.
Inflation and C19 fucked people over. Myself and most UHub readers know these were the lesser of two bad situations but a majority of the country feel like they got shafted. A whole lot of those people voted for Trump.
It's not good enough to be morally superior. People -- including growing numbers of people who are normally the victims of racism (!) -- felt like they were better off under Trump. They might be wrong to think that but Harris and Biden did a lousy job proving they'd be better.
i mean
the Biden administration oversaw one of the greatest economic recoveries in the history of the country. like you said though, people are still suffering.
sure, Harris could have tried hammering the arguments that inflation is now lower than it was during the Trump admin, that we have full employment, that gas prices are quite low, etc, but those all feel like academic reasoning. we know that “academic” repels the voters you’re talking about.
so what to do? you can’t tell people you’re going to fix the economy that 1) you were in charge of for four years 2) you actually did fix.
on the other side, what did Trump campaign on? fixing the economy?
bear in mind, i’m not saying the DNC is perfect or couldn’t have fielded a better candidate, or whatever else. i’m saying that knowing that Biden really did fix the economy, we can’t pretend people voted for Trump primarily because of economic anxiety.
but hey, there are a million opinions out there as to why Harris lost and most of them are correct.
This is the bizarre part for me
The Biden administration fixed inflation that was caused by COVID (and Trump). But no one acknowledged it. Biden brought chip manufacturing back to the US but no one acknowledged this. Biden spent money but he lowered unemployment to zero and temporarily ended child poverty.
Right or Left, Trump is the laziest, most disorganized president we have known. He has no friends. He accomplished nothing that turtleboy McConnell didn't hand to him on a silver platter. The Tax cuts and Supreme Court was designed by establishment republicans. The evacuation from Afghanistan was a disaster because trump set a deadline with zero plans.
Harris was a great candidate, and I hope that she will be our president someday if this country survives.
Look, I agree
Biden has been a great president. America's economic recovery from the pandemic has been better than anywhere else in the world.
But the perception is that Biden is responsible for inflation, even if that's not true. The perception is that Democrats wrongly asked the public to don masks and stay home for nothing even if it wasn't for nothing and it was under Trump anyway.
Trump painted Harris and Biden as unsympathetic to the plight of the common American. Honestly, had Biden not originally run for a second term and had a Democrat not linked with Biden administration been the candidate, they'd probably be the president elect right now. When you're viewed as the party of the elite, you loose. Nothing else matters.
This isn't 2016
Anybody who voted for Trump in 2020 or 2024 should have known exactly what he represents. I don't see a distinction between voting for him because of the racism and voting for him despite the racism. Either way, that voter is saying they aren't bothered by a white supremacist government. These people are beyond the pale in every way possible.
They still get a vote
If Democrats and liberals disregarding Trump voters as nothing more than racist idiots they are going to keep loosing elections. These people are the majority now.
Does it matter?
If you kill me, does it matter if you did it because of my race or because of my political party?
Yes
And more of them showed up Tuesday than we did
I hate it too but we can't ignore it or pretend it isn't real.
Black people All over the country
Black people all over the country received this text today. People I know in Florida, Maryland, everywhere. On social media I saw it then in real life.
Thanks white people.
Begins????
No hate over the past year? Nothing on college campuses?
This is someone using a program to mass text people. We have no idea if that person is even located in the USA.
This is happening much wider than just a local college.
FBI investigating
according to CNN.
Nationwide spread and scale of the messages raises the possibility of a foreign operation to incite discord and disorder, so cool your jets about domestic "hate" "white people" and "vile, ignorant Americans."
If it was domestic, it would be first amendment protected and thus no crime, so why would FBI be looking into it if they didn't suspect foreign operations?
Adjust to the world of global hacking and AI we are now living in. Question everything. Funny that Old Man Deselby is more hip to it, but he's got a lot of time to read.
dude
i’m sorry but i don’t know know how else to say this: shut the fuck up, honestly.
one month ago, the president elect told us that haitian people were eating cats, based on fuck-all. stop fucking telling people what they are seeing isn’t actually what they are seeing.
"shut up, he reasoned"
thank you for your contribution. it's going to be a long four years for you.
Your attitude, spread widely, is literally what brought a Trump victory.
meaningless drivel
what attitude are you referring to, specifically? racism is bad ?
that you would put forth the idea that my calling out your willful blindness towards the obviously racism-driven election of Trump is somehow what elected him in the first place is god-tier irony
Intolerance of disagreement
The "shut the fuck up" unless ultra-woke attitude.
It's what delivered Musk, Joe Rogan and many others to Trump. Influential or even decisive.
Ah, yes, the famously woke, non-racist Joe
Rogan and Elon Musk were finally brought over to Trump's brand of across-the-board bigotry by ultra-wokeness.
Where can I buy your brand of genius pills?
Really?
Who made the "Eff your Feelings" paraphernalia?
I mean
"I want most of, and can live with, everything that Trump is offering but I musn't be made to feel bad about it" is certainly an opinion, but it is a shit one.
Oooh, he said "paradox of tolerance"
Invoking the paradox of tolerance is not the trump card you think it is. If you view tolerance as an abstract moral virtue with no special connection to reality or consequences, then sure, you can try to argue that: you state an intolerant opinion so you're bad, I say your intolerant opinion is shit and under this abstract, above-it-all-and-beside-the-point definition of tolerance, that makes me equally bad.
But tolerance is not an abstract moral virtue. It's a social contract. And those who breach contracts thereby forfeit all claims to be covered under them.
tl;dr: go pound sand with your smarmy, facetious, DARVO bullshit.
nope
Its just greed. Musk and Rogan get paid by this hate.
One thing about white people
They never gon take accountability for racism!
Let alone actually work to end it
They'll talk a very good game, but it's so they can feel like "one of the good ones" and keep on doing the racist shit they've been doing. And I'm not talking about one of the states that went red - I mean /here/, in Boston (although I'm sure you know this).
Remember
The first 250 years Black people were here and we asked if we could not be white peoples property. Please?
Most white people said “no.”
and then the minority of them said “I hear you but, we’ll have to slow walk that.”
So this is just a continuation of that.