racist tweets
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Wyoming Congressman Apologizes for Tweeting ‘Where the White Women At’ GIF to State’s First Black Sheriff
Man…I really hate wypipo apologies. What I mean is that I hate the way white people frame their apologies after doing or saying something that was clearly racist and intentional. It’s always different variations of: “It was a stupid yet innocent mistake. I didn’t mean it that way. Everyone who knows me knows there isn’t…
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California School Board President Resigns After Wife’s Racist Tweets About Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris
I really don’t understand white people, y’all. Like, how are they out here marrying racists and then being all, “Well, I don’t agree at all with what my partner said, but, you know…” *points at white skin and shrugs* Our latest example of spousal racism takes us to San Francisco, where a school board president…
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Florida, Man: House Candidate K.W. Miller Has a Problem With Black Peen and I Can Prove It!
So… Can we have a discussion about this guy K.W. Miller, who is running for a seat in the U.S. House to represent Florida’s 18th Congressional District? Can we talk about how this man’s toxic Twitter feed rivals that of Donald “Give Me Goya or Give Me Death” Trump in terms of baseless conspiracy theories…
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Texas Teacher May Get Reinstated After Asking Trump to Help Get Rid of ‘Illegal Students’ at Her School
A high school English teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, may be allowed to return to her job after being fired in June for tweeting to Donald Trump and asking for his help in getting rid of “illegal students” at her school. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports in response to Georgia Clark’s appeal of her termination,…
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Texas Teacher Who Asked Trump to Deport ‘Illegal Students’ at Her School Gets Fired
When someone is a complete and total jerk for no reason, we as a collective love to see them get what is coming to them. Don’t bother denying it; there is a (not so) secret satisfaction in watching a deserving jackass get their comeuppance. This is especially true when said deserving jackass is a racist…
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#WeAreBaltimore: Residents, Mayor, Even the City's Newspaper Clap Back at Trump After Vile, Racist Tweets
After the president labeled Baltimore “a very dangerous & filthy place” that is “rat and rodent infested mess” and where “no human being would want to live,” the residents of Charm City and many others refused to let that slander lie and came to the city’s defense. This all started after the president dropped a…
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Trump Says Racist Nonsense Because He Means It and Because He Knows He Can Win on It
Donald Trump, in a series of tweets from Sunday night well into Monday morning, doubled down on his racist, xenophobic criticism of four Democratic congresswomen, Reps. Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. After calling on the congresswomen to go back to their countries and fix them, Trump followed up his attack by…
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British Radio Jock Gets the Boot After Racist Tweet About Meghan’s New Baby
Not today, colonizer. When will folks learn that expressing racist views – especially on social media, especially when you have a clearly identifiable job, and perhaps most especially, when said views are about the newest British baby royal –will always put you in the losers’ column? The BBC fired radio broadcaster Danny Baker after Baker…
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The Nonapology Guide: Black-Woman Edition
Since Cheeto Grease the Tyrant fumblingly assumed office thanks to the Assorted Colonizer Coalition of America at the conclusion of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, something interesting has happened: I mean, one doesn’t have to look too far for examples of this, especially this year. With chosen champions like Lena Waithe, Tiffany Haddish, basically…