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7_Sorrows said:
The speeches will be forgotten soon enough.
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“When they go low; we go high” still echoes.
StudentMI said:
She’s never struck me as a particularly bright individual.
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Valedictorian of her magnet high school class, Princeton and then Harvard Law. Your statement amazes me.
7_Sorrows said:
She strikes me as someone very angry and who feels very entitled.
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The ‘angry black woman’ trope?

" “The notion of the angry Black woman was a way — is a way — of trying to keep in place Black women who have stepped outside of their bounds, and who have refused to concede the legitimacy of being a docile being in the face of white power,” said Michael Eric Dyson, the Georgetown professor and author.

The trope, like all stereotypes, is meant to make its subject into something one-dimensional and easier to puncture. It demeans Black women who are perceived as angry by dismissing them as shrews whose opinions do not count because they are pushed to rage by everything, and nothing."

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When Trump Calls a Black Woman ‘Angry,’ He Feeds This Racist Trope (Published 2020)

President Trump’s use of the word to describe Joe Biden’s vice-presidential pick, Kamala Harris, plays off a hurtful stereotype with a decades-long history.
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PaulinVA said:
Uninformed people with uninformed opinions.
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That’s a rather broad, and rude, generalization. My friends (Democrats, as I pointed out) are actually highly informed people who are well educated and follow politics daily. Some of them even support Bernie themselves. As I mentioned, they didn’t like the speech for a variety of reasons, not because they’re naive about what goes on at conventions.

Kindly don’t assume that everyone who has a different opinion from you is somehow not bright.
 
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She seconded the nomination of Bernie Sanders. It was apparently a procedural seconding.

It was only a minute.
 
Tis_Bearself said:
Kindly don’t assume that everyone who has a different opinion from you is somehow not bright
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The criticisms I have read were almost exclusively related to misunderstanding what her speech was intended to do.

If I’ve offended I apologize.

Edited to add: Apparently I shouldn’t post to CAF during Teams meetings.
 
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I ROFL at the blatant hypocrisy
  • Bernie brags about how his 2016 left wing agenda is now core DNC platform
  • Kasich insists Joe is a centrist, to try sway middle towards Joe
Kasich has fallen so far since his election run.
 
Another night of the parade of tragic victimhood. It was fun seeing the state roll call, but jarring when some of the spokespeople started by speaking of their personal tragedy. (end of Kansas "we proudly present 35 votes for Joe Biden! - - Kentucky - “one day when I was 14 my mom wouldn’t wake up.” Needed a better transition - - just sounded like a weird non sequitur.)
Masked silent people in the background also looked like props. Republicans please don’t do this! If they’re social distancing can they drop the masks, especially if outdoors? It looked like some weird protest where people cover their mouths dramatically with tape.
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I’m not the one complaining. I didn’t watch it and I couldn’t care less if she seconds Bernie or reads Green Eggs and Ham.

It’s my friends who want Trump out of office so bad it’s all they talk about for half the day, who are complaining.
 
I didn’t call her an angry Black woman - you did!

I said she strikes me as someone very angry. An angry person.

She does happen to be Black and a woman, but I did not describe her as such.
 
Back to the DNC tonight – more victim parade! Things Joe did 25 years ago.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I didn’t call her an angry Black woman - you did!

I said she strikes me as someone very angry. An angry person.

She does happen to be Black and a woman, but I did not describe her as such.
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You quibble.
 
Nepperhan said:
The ‘angry black woman’ trope?

" “The notion of the angry Black woman was a way — is a way — of trying to keep in place Black women who have stepped outside of their bounds, and who have refused to concede the legitimacy of being a docile being in the face of white power,” said Michael Eric Dyson, the Georgetown professor and author.

The trope, like all stereotypes, is meant to make its subject into something one-dimensional and easier to puncture. It demeans Black women who are perceived as angry by dismissing them as shrews whose opinions do not count because they are pushed to rage by everything, and nothing."
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So what is one permitted to say about a person who happens to be black and female and exhibits some symptoms of anger?
 
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Annie said:
So what is one permitted to say about a person who happens to be black and female and exhibits some symptoms of anger?
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“Why is she angry about this particular incident? That’s inappropriate. Her reaction should be far different, for instance …”
 
7_Sorrows said:
The speeches will be forgotten soon enough.
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I think that Obama’s speech in 2004 was mesmerizing, particularly when he explained that ‘we are one United States of America’. It was also historic – I think his first national exposure showed his true potential for high office. Teresa Heinz Kerry said that day that Obama would be the first black president of the US.
 
That is a mesmerizing idea – we are one country! Too bad he undermined it with the bitter clingers comment. 😂
Good thing the media is in bed with the democrats so they could help Obama catapult him to his political success in no time flat.
In retrospect though, wouldn’t it have been better to let Biden have his “turn”, then Obama have his turn? The media planned that out poorly…
Now they have to promote Biden the dotard.
 
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Night 3 Hits:
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