We keep seeing profiles of racist Trump supporters such as The Atlantic’s “We’re All Tired of Being Called Racists,” in which rally-goers from his Thursday night Ohio hate-fest cried about being called racists. Let me spoil the surprise for you: they said some pretty racist shit in the process.
Take Roseanna and Amy, for example. Amy claimed, "Oh gosh", they would never join in a “Send her back” chant about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. But Roseanna, one of the “forgotten people” media can’t seem to forget, had some thoughts about Rep. Omar. “Look,
but she is gonna get—you know, I don’t want her stinkin’ Muslim crap in
my country.” It’s “Sharia law,” pal Amy agreed. “That’s not America,”
Roseanna continued, saying, “She is a Muslim through and through … she
wants that all here.” Per The Atlantic, Roseanna then “wondered whether Omar had come to the U.S. illegally.”
For the record, Rep. Omar came here as a refugee, and became a U.S.
citizen at 17. You know, if racist Trump supporters don’t want to be
called racist, it’s actually pretty easy to fix: Stop being racist. But
so much of their outrage is over being labeled as racists, and not
actually over the actions themselves, such as threatening someone with ICE for speaking Spanish, or calling 911 on someone over the act of waiting-in-a-hotel-lobby-while-black. But just don’t call them racists—it hurts their feelings.
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