J.D. Vance brushed off Laura Loomer’s racist comments, despite being married to an Indian American woman.
J.D. Vance would apparently rather protect Donald Trump’s decision to pal around with self-described “proud Islamophobe” and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer than stand up for his own wife.
Trump has been seen with Loomer several times over the last couple of weeks, with the pair getting eyebrow-raisingly close (Trump’s hand has been spotted in the small of Loomer’s back) while Melania Trump has largely remained out of the limelight. Loomer attended a 9/11 memorial service with Trump and also accompanied him to the presidential debate.
In an interview Sunday with NBC News, Vance was asked directly about his and his wife Usha Vance’s opinions on some of Loomer’s overt racism, including her claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascendency to the Oval Office would make the White House “smell like curry.” But Vance wouldn’t take a stand against the alt-right ally.
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“Do I agree with what Laura Loomer said about Kamala Harris? No, I don’t,” Vance continued. “I also don’t think that this is actually an issue of national import. Is Laura Loomer running for president? No. Kamala Harris is running for president, and whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies.”
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He defends a racist by using a racist statement. And Republicans don’t even blink.
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Edit: i didn’t make it clear enough. This is parody combining the racist shit JD just said with the racist shit Trump said previously. In no way does this reflect my actual viewpoint.
I think many of the people downvoting and/or reporting you (I did both) are aware that you’re joking. The problem is that your joke isn’t funny. It’s wildly offensive and racist.
I get what you’re saying, “I don’t actually believe the racist stuff I said,” but we’re concerned with the part of that thought that you’re glossing over: racist stuff you said. Probably should just delete your comment.
Just realize that comedy doesn’t give you carte blanche to shout racist stereotypes and move on.
Humor wasn’t the goal. Making apparent the racism of Vance and Trump’s words was. If repeating back the racism someone else used in order to deride them somehow applies that same racist stigma onto me, I would argue that your priorities are misplaced. If I had directly quoted them and cited the quotation would the reaction have been the same? Because it amounts to the same level of disconnect from the words to me. But whatever. Not a hill I care to die on. I’ll delete it. Didn’t mean to upset anyone.
This is wildly racist, and also full of shit. She went to a historically black university, joined a black sorority, and has always been open about her dual Black/Indian heritage.
Your racist talking points aren’t going to land here, fuckhead.
How is that a racist statement?
I also eat curry (actually made some myself last saturday) and I’m a white cis male, so the least likely target of any -cism (at least any that can be taken seriously)?
Should I feel offended by that statement? lol
Idk it apparently gets you downvoted here
I switched to Lemmy because I was told it would be less toxic than Reddit. But I guess that was a fucking lie.
Might as well switch back to reddit if this keeps up. At least They don’t support genocidal regimes there there.
Because Harris is both Black and Indian heritage and curry and fried chicken are the two foods most stereotypically associated with each aspect of her heritage. It’s not like he picked two random foods.
Wait
Fried chicken is associated with black people in the US?
Are you shitting me?
Over here in Europe it’s considered redneck-food lol
Also thanks for explaining and not downvoting like the other toxic fucks here. Lemmy really is becoming reddit 2.0, huh?
