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[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's like one of the few good lines she's ever said, so of course her followers hate it

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Similarly, they hate the idea of her becoming more powerful

I'm beginning to think they may just be clinical losers

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

They want to root for a black woman who can't possibly actually succeed, if she actually succeeds it changes the whole dynamic. (And a lot of them dont believe that a black woman can actually succeed anyway, which is why we have to stick with Biden).

[–] goose@hexbear.net 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, it references something that Harris said that actually connected with people in general instead of pandering specifically to their toxic insular clique

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but what if I remove all the context in which it exists

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

What? You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is because the "KHive" is some DNC-funded astroturfing campaign that disappears after elections and only reappears when they get a check during a campaign

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Bavk in the day, they were some of the rudest motherfuckers I ever encountered online.

[–] save_vs_death@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

black people ain't having no kamala

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It wouldn't surprise me if these sort of folks on social media would start saying she's too Asian to be the first black woman president. I would not put it past them to be that cynical.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In '08 there was a lot of "concern" in the media that Obama was "not black enough." Whether that originated from Hillary's campaign or elsewhere, I don't know.

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The folks who talk about ADOS in like, college-educated black circles could raise that with future black candidates that come from immigrant parents. Anecdotally, I've heard complaints that the affirmative action spots at Ivys are going more to the upper middle class children of African immigrants than to, say poorer or middle class ADOS kids. I can see this as a form of inner-elite competition amongst the black leadership class of America for limited resources. Could be one way to foster nativism among middle class African American voters by the right, if they were shrewd enough to do that.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hillary started the birther movement anyhow, which was then taken over by fox and is how Donald Trump got his modern political career Kickstarted lol. She has incredible political instincts.

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From what I've seen its not that they're turning her down as not black enough, its that its racist to have such high expectations of a black woman.

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can see where they could be coming from with that via the criticism of the trope of having an Atlas-like black female leader who has to carry the weight of the world left to her by incompetent white men. The idea being that white leaders should own up to and fix some of their own problems instead of giving them all to a member of an oppressed class to remedy.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean, I guess, but it's honestly more problematic to assume that white men have to fix all the problems they caused before allowing a black woman to be in power.

[–] Shinji_Ikari@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Didn't she say this like like a dozen different times? Like isn't it basically her catch phrase? If she never said this and people were using it because she's sorta Caribbean, yeah I could see it, but c'mon.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago

What could be, unburdened by what has been

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You think you just fell out a coconut tree?

Come on man! Give me a break! biden-rember

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

1400 black women?! that’s like all the black women!

[–] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Truly human shield technique

[–] SoJB@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

It’s honestly so funny how liberals use race as a tool of political convenience. Like, it takes so little for them to go full mask off fascist.

Let us take solace in the fact that leftism will always win over time, and that we are witnessing the active downfall of the most powerful empire in recorded history.

0.007% of Black women sign letter of support for Biden

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

My libby sense is tingling.

[–] Moonworm@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago

It's actually anti-racist to prefer a dying white man not cede power to a black woman.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I still have no idea what the coconut tree thing means or where it came from.

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 23 points 3 months ago

mfw they don't know the context

[–] D61@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Kamalah Harris solidarity Donald Rumsfield

Tossing that word salad.

[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

A woman is subsumed by her environment and you think that is me? Joe, I am the context. I am the one who falls out of a coconut tree.

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

Sorry, who is this guy? I want to speak to the CEO of KHive