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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hah, the article was removed https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/forbes-removes-column-that-asks-if-trump-surviving-shooting-will-appeal-to-black-voters/

The author mentioned Trump attempted to sway black voters after he was indicted on various criminal charges and his mugshot was taken in one of his cases last year.

“Hopefully, being shot doesn’t become a similarly problematic strategy to link Trump with an experience that far too many (not all) Black people have,” part of the column reads.

Seems like it was supposed to be sorta the opposite of what it ended up being.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, so it's a classic case of 'any question asked in a headline can just be answered with no'?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Betteridge's law of headlines

[–] slevinkelevra 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well I wouldn't put it past him. He wasn't shot by the police though.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Shaun Harper

A DEI expert

....i don't believe you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Despite his name "sounding white", Shaun Harper is a Black Man and a Biden supporter.

His take is still a bad take, but fixating on his name when there's a picture of him in the article that would better inform you on this matter is also a bad take.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I included the name to call them out because they have a bad take and their one-line bio describes a DEI expert. Including the name was not in relation to any assumption in their race or anything else for that matter. But i appreciate the response since i can see how people might be reading between the lines.

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[–] L0rdMathias 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Isn't it funny how the dei experts end up being the most racist?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

No, it's not. It's not funny because people end up listening to and following all the drivel they espouse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

DEI expert because his employer keeps sending him to classes

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are we sure this isn't satire...? This reads very much like satire to me and I'm too lazy to look up the article to see for myself.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Any back or person of color that votes for Trump needs their head examined. If you think these people are your friends you are in for a ride awaking.

Edit: autocorrect did a number on my comment 😂 I like it and I'm keeping it!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Any person, period. Only extremely wealthy hoarders could make a sane decision to vote for Repubs, and that's only if they care about short term gains at the expense of the planet.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you mean rude awakening?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Back in 2016 I tried explaining this to a Hispanic guy I knew. Single issue voter, second amendment. Dude was a lost cause. Never talked to him again but I doubt anything has changed. Single issue voters tend to be simplistic fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Or, Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court, because that’s another system. Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early. Like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida, he had a lot of firearms – they saw everything – to go to court would have taken a long time, so you could do exactly what you’re saying, but take the guns first, go through due process second.”

Trump is horrible for second amendment rights.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"this is pretty racist"

Yeah, so is he, so it would be on brand. I say 60% chances he will try exactly that before the election.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He already did in the last debate. Remember "taking black jobs"?

No? oh I guess it's cuz Biden is old...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Good lord...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"See? We got something in common, you and I. In fact you could say… you could say I'm just like you."

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I have my doubts that many black voters think trump and say:

what a guy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I know that black voters for Trump exist. But so do bots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not a lot, but more than you'd think. Something on the order of 15-30% of black voters support him, from my memory.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Biden is winning black voters 64% to 13% in this poll that has a crazy amount of Kennedy voters https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/07/11/amid-doubts-about-bidens-mental-sharpness-trump-leads-presidential-race/

But that's bad because he won 87% to 12% in 2020.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, Biden is winning black voters. But considering Trump's entire vibe of catering to white supremacists, it's supposing he has much support at all.

I think you think we're arguing, but we're not?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wasn't arguing. Just bringing the relevant polling to the table. 30% black support would be a landslide election for a Republican. 13% when he won 12% in 2020 doesn't even seem worth remarking upon. So I think that's an important distinction.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don't listen to that writer. They are a DEI expert - that's practically antifa. /s

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

One of the first things that came to mind was that he could start walking out to 50 Cent songs at his rallies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Well if you put it that way, no.

Don't try to put it another way either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's that even supposed to mean? Huh?

[–] Kecessa 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Trump has pretended that his arrest and mugshot increased his support from black electors (implying that it made them relate to him from sharing an experience far too common for them) so it wouldn't be surprising he would do the same because he got shot (again, considering statistics)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Questioning if trump would try to use it to appeal to Black voters...

Apparently everyone is taking it to mean it would work and calling the author racist?

But there's a very good chance trump does try this. Because he is racist.

It concerning so many people are confused

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jesus wept

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesu Swept

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

jizz is wet

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

That's the point.

That's the author's entire point.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everyone:

Forbes: Hey, do you know what do Trump and a black person have in common? If they're both alive is just because a white person's bad aim!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Fuckin yikes!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

OMG

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s the first thing that a buddy of mine said to me.

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