“You people” on steroids
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Remember Ross Perot’s blunder when talking to a group of black people? Gavin Newsome just addressed a similar crowd by saying he was just like them because he got a bad SAT score and he can’t read.
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All of right wing media is posting it with the middle sentence taken out (note the …). Also there’s an entire paragraph before the comment about how he can’t read a speech (NOT ‘I can’t read’). Also overselling the extent to which it’s a ‘black audience’. If you listen to the tape it doesn’t sound as bad as they make it out to be
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If you don’t think the audience and his perception of them played a part in what he said - and he did say he was just like them because he is dumb - then you’re trying pretty hard to avoid the obvious.
I guess it’s possible he was talking to a bunch of Trump supporters, about whom he has similar preconceptions, but I don’t think that was the audience.
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But these sorts of slips are predictable once you understand that the modal progressive has a more racist perspective than the modal conservative. Expressed differently. Through magnanimity towards their inferiors.
But these sorts of slips are predictable once you understand that the modal progressive has a more racist perspective than the modal conservative..
That may be true for stereotypical modal types and select tribes and clans. However it is highly doubt that it applies to the common buck toothed or red neck MAGAt who can hardly count themselves as being even remotely conservative let alone a progressive modal conservative.
