I used to believe racism in the United States was overstated.
Sure, it existed. But it's not something widespread. Common. The claim americans are racists is ridiculous.
Well...I was wrong.
"Zohran Mamdani is a terrorist"
"Mamdani supports ISIS and HAMAS"
"New York City faces sharia law"
"Mamdani wants to MURDER jews"
The amount of shit published about this guy is absolutely insane.
He recently attended the 9/11 memorial ceremony.
At some point, he greeted congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and smiled for 5 seconds.
Immediatly, politicians went wild
Senator Ted Cruz:
Congresswoman Mary Miller :
Speaker Mike Johnson:
Here is the video. You can clearly see that he was stoic. He hugged her. Then he immediatly went back to being stoic.
Dude smiled 5 SECONDS in a 5 hour ceremony and they accuse him of celebrating 9/11
At the same ceremony, JD Vance and Howard Lutnick laughed and joked.
No one cares. They are white.
The US is more racist than I ever imagined.
OK, support your rant with facts or delete this. Seriously, biological essentialism, "these people are inherently bad", that's essentially what racists will say. What the hell.
Every word of it is plainly obvious to non-conservatives. Conservatives claiming to experience empathy simply do not fool people who can actually experience empathy.
Many conservatives will gleefully admit publicly, sometimes on national broadcasts, that they believe empathy is fake, and people claiming to experience it are lying.
Further, it is simply not possible to experience empathy and hold conservative views simultaneously. Conservative positions on just about every topic are completely incompatible with empathy. Any person who can feel empathy will be disgusted by conservative viewpoints and behaviors. And that's the biggest tell.
But, the obvious inability to experience empathy is not what makes them evil. What makes conservatives evil is choosing to harm others and delighting in the suffering of the vulnerable. That's what makes conservatives evil.
These people are inherently bad.
People who allow them to feel safe in public aren’t much better.