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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(115,324 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 02:24 PM Oct 30

Sorry, Trump, outrage over your racist NYC rally isn't going away

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance tried to stop the bleeding from the Republican presidential ticket, after a comedian made a racist joke about Puerto Rico and Latinos at a Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Vance said Monday night that people need to get "over it" and "stop getting so offended" at the joke, in which Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage" and made a vulgar comment about Latinos and ejaculating without protection.

“A comedian told a joke, and I don’t think that’s news worth making,” Vance told a reporter at a campaign rally in Wisconsin, according to NBC News.

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But voters don’t seem to be buying Vance’s argument, as the outrage over the so-called “joke” is not going away. The media, usually averse to calling things racist, has been unafraid to label Trump’s MSG rally as such.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/10/29/2280601/-Sorry-Trump-outrage-over-your-racist-NYC-rally-isn-t-going-away

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Sorry, Trump, outrage over your racist NYC rally isn't going away (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 30 OP
How come they aren't angry abouy them calling VP Harris the C word kimbutgar Oct 30 #1
it's pretty bad when racism is mistaken for a "joke" or a "roast" Skittles Oct 30 #2
Um.... yup MissMillie Oct 31 #3
Witness JLo's speech in Vegas tonight RussBLib Oct 31 #4

MissMillie

(38,962 posts)
3. Um.... yup
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:20 AM
Oct 31

The assertion that some of us are "sensitive," or "politically correct" or even "woke" does not erase that what was on display at MSG was blatant racism and bigotry.

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