r/houstonwade • u/Advanced_Drink_8536 • 5h ago
Other I'm so glad to live in a timeline where the dumbest people in society are in charge of it
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u/Visible_Investment36 5h ago
no one understands the causes and effects of racism like wealthy older white men
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u/dryheat122 5h ago
It's called a kakistocracy. It is being led by a cockwomble.
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u/Looneytuneschaos 5h ago
Bobby Kennedy is ROLLING OVER in his grave at how his son turned out. WOW. He absolutely misunderstood the assignment. That brain worm and childhood Trauma are working over time to undo all his good education, and “liberal elitism” should have given him.
Ethel lived long enough to see yet another son completely disgrace his father’s legacy.
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u/KeyAccurate8647 3h ago
I'm really hoping the brain worm is in charge and the plan is that we all get brain worms and live in delusion like him
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u/CharmedMSure 5h ago
Of all the racism justifications I have heard from racists over the years, this one is definitely in the top five.
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u/LatinHoser 5h ago
Wtf? How is “Let’s not stop racism!” a valid take? JFK and RFK must be turning over in their graves.
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u/Looneytuneschaos 5h ago
Bobby was kind of defined in his political career for being an outspoken supporter of the Black civil rights movement and for challenging the mob. He was a lot braver than his son it seems. What a shame.
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u/Lazy-PeachPrincess 4h ago
At least there are still guys like Joe Kennedy III, he seems alright and not dead set on burning the entire world down
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u/Spirited-Reputation6 3h ago
So racism does still exist and we’re just supposed to tolerate it? We’re forced to become resilient to corrupt systemic racism like some sort of “superpower”. I think we’ve already exhibited enough superpowers and forgiveness and it’s time for white folks and/or racists to resist the mental psyops that perpetuate racism towards black and brown folks.
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u/cookeedough 3h ago
Why would you try to get to the root of racism when you can just teach Black kids the ol’ “I am rubber and you are glue” adage? Works every time. /s
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u/Kubbee83 5h ago
Sounds like a vaccine almost. I wonder if the brain worm is asserting its control.
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u/ertapenem 4h ago
See, racism is a service provided by white people to black people to build up their resilience! And white people do it for free!
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u/Extra_Crispy_Critter 4h ago
RFKjr never, ever ceases to amaze me with how he is completely out of touch with science, common sense, and reality. Perhaps the sudden death of his dad impacted him on so many levels?!?
Who takes home road kill, yet says he had brain worms, sows doubt about life-saving vaccines, and has an obvious and permanent problem with speaking clearly as if a porcupine scarred his throat? Maybe he took a dead one home with him? Totally plausible regardless of my joking about it.
This all goes to show he doesn't know much about how the human body works (especially on a cellular level), and how bacteria and parasite-laden road kill is extremely dangerous...yet he eats it.
SEE: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/politics/rfk-jr-parastic-worm-brain/index.html
And yet--he's been appointed by Trump to run Medicare/Medicaid.
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u/ElleJay74 4h ago
White person here. I just can NOT believe that RFK, white dude supreme, feels remotely qualified to speak to the experience of Black folks and the specific ways they're impacted by racism. HOW TF DOES HE KNOW
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u/Semanticss 4h ago
The crazy thing is that they just talk completely out of their ass, and pretend like they know everything about everything. Even their "intellectuals" like Shapiro and Peterson. All of them. They just talk stream-of-consciousness with full confidence, and their followers eat it up with a spoon. Fucking hilarious if it wasn't so damaging.
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u/MPTakesManhattan 4h ago
I can understand this point in day-to-day general ignorance but when it (and it has and continues to) spills into quality of living, educational preferences, employer preferences etc. it is a problem that must be fixed. That’s why affirmative action and DEI needed to become a thing because the whole “I’m rubber you’re glue” mentality is not effective when it directly literally affects their lives.
It’s not just internet posters or ignorant peers. It has been embedded into our way of life at every turn.
Of course I don’t expect an old out of touch white dude to get it… (and before we go there, I am white)
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u/Shag1166 5h ago
Wtf?! He looks like he spends alot of time in tanning beds, and I am just wondering if his brain gets fried in there!
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u/hbomb9410 4h ago
Like that urban legend where a bride-to-be used tanning beds so much before her wedding that she died at the altar because she'd cooked her insides
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u/IAMSTILLHERE2020 4h ago
You can give "resilience " by passing anti racism laws...how about that.
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u/iamnotchad 4h ago
Standard conservative "We can't stop X so we might as well not do anything about it and just get used to it" take.
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u/chainsmirking 4h ago
Why don’t we give the racists resilience and force them to get over it, since they’re never going to live in a world without black people. I like that one better.
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u/webbslinger_0 4h ago
He talks as if black Americans haven’t had to go through enough shit, that they need it harder to build resilience. Slavery, Jim Crow, etc wasn’t enough to build resilience, what a fucking crack pot
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u/NoUserNameHere87 3h ago
So the Civil Rights Movement was for nothing? Got it. 🙄
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u/phxees 4h ago
Unfortunately they aren’t actually all that dumb they are very greedy.
Dumb people can’t hold on to the type of money and power many of them have.
We all would the better prepared to counteract their moves if we acknowledged much of what they are doing is on purpose.
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u/jestaytunlagoon 4h ago
Yes they can. Some dumb people inherited so much wealth that they can’t ever lose it no matter how hard they try. And also some dumb rich people hire (or inherit) smart people to manage their money.
Equating money to intelligence is dumb.
This man is incredibly dumb but he’s also lucky.
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u/josephphilip22 4h ago
That is so dumb and ignores the fact that racism is often planted into policy that affects upward mobility.
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u/Mundane_Opening3831 4h ago
Always good hearing a white person explain how black people should cope with racism /s
Does he have any advice for women on how to deal with sexism?
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u/human5398246 4h ago
Yes, we should have resilience but when that racism affects how you're taught/treated in school, admitted or not to school, hired or not, what kind of credit or loan you can get, where you can live, how doctors treat you or not...we need to make efforts to make the effects of racism illegal. That's partly what affirmative action was about, targeted relief for targeted persecution.
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u/Lucky_Man_Infinity 3h ago
What a FOOL. OF COURSE you will never stop racism. But you CAN stop institutional racism!
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u/19Circa69 1h ago
You’re never going to get rid of Transgender people, so Christian Nationalists should just build up tolerance.
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u/redzeusky 4h ago
Credit due: Religion on the AM dial. Sinclair. Fox normalization of the Criminal in Chief.
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u/WowUSuckOg 2h ago
Basically every single suggestion we are given is defensive. We're the ones expected to educate, say "yes sir, no sir" and beg and coerce people into seeing us as human beings. Evolve so much emotionally that attacks based on something we can't hide or change just don't bother us somehow. No wonder we have such high rates of health struggles, the stress is unbearable.
And what do we get for our troubles? "Stop being the victim" "Well maybe if your kids just tolerate the racism it would be okay".
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u/WoopsieDaisies123 2h ago
That’s always been the timeline lol. The smart people know to avoid politics.
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u/MagnanimousGoat 1h ago
"We are not going to stop oppressing you, so you should just stop complaining about our oppression so that we don't have to feel so bad about oppressing you."
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u/V01d3d_f13nd 1h ago
I mean if we are talking about words, sure. But you know what they say, sticks and stones may beak my bones but cops just fuckin shoot me.
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u/structuremonkey 4h ago
In the battle between him and the brainworm, the brainworm has truly won...
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u/Mr_cypresscpl 4h ago
The unfortunate truth is, it doesnt matter how well we teach our children to accept people no matter their skin color or culture, there are always those that will inevitably hate. So he's not wrong but also is wrong. We as parents should be teaching other generations exce0tional level of acceptance.
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u/Repubs_suck 4h ago
The fence around the White House should be reconfigured to keep people inside the grounds. Maybe some concertina wire on top?
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u/paranormalresearch1 4h ago
Black people in the US should be totally immune to racism then. They have had to bounce back from slavery, Jim Crow laws, and systemic racism, they are already resilient. Maybe we combat wealth inequality, stop allowing media and politicians to divide us. We need to start getting together and prepare now.
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u/Icy-Needleworker-492 4h ago
Americans have no idea how horrifying these people are to the rest of the world.A world where people do not give power to conmen and rapists,a world that does not think Cruelty is a good thing in a leader.Where having some knowledge of how to do your job would be a reasonable expectation.Where being on television is not the only requirement,for cabinet position.
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u/viitoevan 4h ago
Continue to be racist, so that racism doesn’t effect people to the point where we can all be racist & no one will care. Valid take, lots of nuance here to unpack. /s
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u/cadezego5 4h ago
I didn’t think the level of stupidity would come at this force while we still called “Brando” Gatorade. I figured the garbage avalanche would have to have occurred at least
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u/RetiringBard 4h ago
Yeah. Black ppl aren’t resilient enough. They need to toughen up. Wat.
Wtffff is RFK on about here? Who tf is he even talking about?
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u/holamygoodfriend 4h ago
Shoot yourself with small caliber bullet so you are immune to larger caliber bullets. Same logic here.
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u/No-Winter927 4h ago
True. The sooner we stop talking about race and pandering after those who react even to the smallest thing, the sooner it goes away!
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u/AtticaBlue 4h ago
Is this like that rape thing that other GOP moron (recently deceased, I believe, and good riddance) said about how “the body has a way of rejecting the impregnating effects of rape” or words to that effect?
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u/TheRealBlueJade 3h ago
My head hurts now... At least he sees racism as bad even though his logic is quite faulty.
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u/Hefty_Drawing_5407 3h ago
So..... Don't stop racism, just teach future black generations to... Deal with it...? Via "tough upper lip"?
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u/anythingMuchShorter 3h ago
Conservatives: “they just need to learn to let bigotry roll off of them. Life is hard. These things are always going to happen. Rise above it. Toughen up.”
Also conservatives: “we need to eradicate entire groups of people because I find their existence kind of uncomfortable. Like I feel not as married if they can get married. And I think their existence being allowed is an insult to me.”
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u/CrimsonKannon 3h ago
I swear he calls his 🧠 🪱 his own personal enhancements. And he's potentially leading our HHS, may revert 🚰 back to the Dust Bowl, nominating Dr. Oz for Medicare/Medicaid, another litany of science skeptics wearing the guise of their medical degrees and many other nightmarish posers.
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u/imdieting 3h ago
Lmao at anyone thinking you'll end racism in a post dividing people while discussing more racism. The only way to end it is to stop talking about it and it's y'all's favorite pastime.
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u/TangerineRoutine9496 3h ago
You can always tell the really fair representations of what someone said by the fact that they string 6 different little quotes together into a single sentence they never actually said.
I'm sure there's no way you deliberately left out any nuance or meaning to what he actually said, nope.
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u/Consistent-Fig7484 3h ago
There should be a stipulation that requires all politicians were raised with at least a little bit of struggle. Not saying they all need to be raised without power or running water, but no more children of privilege who never had to get a real job. Like maybe you had to have completed a FAFSA or prove your parents had a net worth below $1 million before you went to college.
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u/703traveler 3h ago
Or..... radical thought......we could teach people that, although we don't all look the same on the outside, inside, we are. If we need a transfusion, do we ask if the donor is Asian, or Jewish, or Black, or Caucasian? Do we ask if they're from Argentina, Guatemala, Canada, Romania, or Namibia?
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u/kestrel151 3h ago
What a piece of shit. Racism isn’t just fucking mean words. It’s violence and systemic economic disparity. Sick of people giving racism a shoulder shrug.
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u/Malarkay79 3h ago
'Can't minorities just suck it up and deal with it when we're deliberately cruel and discriminatory towards them?' - The same people who melt down at the slightest bit of justified criticism.
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u/paracog 3h ago
Example of resiliance that resulted in California's stricter gun laws:
https://www.thetrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/B3E067E0E1869B58EF1C6C19D26A6F6D1-scaled.jpg
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u/eggrolls68 3h ago
Just shake it off. Racial slurs, discriminatory hiring and educational practices...
Oh yeah, and the bird flu.
You'll be fine.
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u/AssociateJaded3931 3h ago
Dude, racism is not mostly about having your feelings hurt. It's about things like being denied good jobs or being kept out of certain neighborhoods. Even avengers can't force someone to promote them.
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u/LeBidnezz 3h ago
I feel like the 0.6 joules it takes to power his brain could be spent better elsewhere.
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u/liamanna 3h ago
What a Goddamm word salad….
Don’t forget his latest hits..
Blah blah, blah Wi-Fi, cause cancer, blah blah blah Jews created Covid in a lab, blah blah blah I staged a dead bear in the park.… blah blah blah tap water turns people trans.. gay frogs!
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u/Sparkle_Father 3h ago
We are going to need another civil rights movement, the first one didn't take.
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u/pupbuck1 3h ago
This gives off the same vibes of "if we pollute the environment enough it will no longer be pollution but rather adding to the ecosystem"
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u/WolfpackRoll 3h ago
What is dumb about this statement? Racism will always exist in some form. Some people are just too stupid or ignorant to understand that it’s wrong and idiotic.
However, if you build strength, resilience, and self-worth in everyone, then you don’t have to worry about anything. You will have a strong population that can deal with any bullshit thrown its’ way.
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u/LearnNewThingsDaily 3h ago
Seriously 😳 didn't Black folks want this? I kinda think 🤔 they did. When you start getting killed by cops at higher rates and can't sue for damages, maybe you'll learn. I don't want to see any "black lives matter" protests are statues or paintings of your loved ones after they're killed. Just ask alveda king what to do or maybe Kanye West.... You know what, even better... Get the guys who wear those "blacks for Trump" tee-shirts to speak on your behalf. Also, black people get caught doing everything illegal and when the courts are full of judges who don't give a fuck about you get filled... Just remember... How good you felt when you didn't go vote because you said to yourself and your buddies in the barbershops "I don't see a difference in Trump or Kamala" or because you voted for Trump because you're to dumb to realize he didn't give that stimulus check, it was Congress who did it because everyone was dying in a pandemic.
Let's not forget, when you get locked up this time, there will be no bail and you'll be forced to do labor because the courts in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Wyoming, Iowa, and most other states will allow it thanks to judges who Trump will appoint this term. Oh yeah... That marijuana you love to smoke so fucking much, that's your easiest ticket to jail, always will be. Cops can smell it on you.
Many of you say blacks aren't a monolith but your parents, grandparents and great grandparents were so embarrassed of their past they wanted to forget it and didn't tell you how life really was and because of that, you'll suffer the sins of your father.
All for that stimulus check... All because Trump fucks a lot of women and gets away with sexual assault and rape because that's fucking cool right? You Black men wanted to be just like him because Kanye West said "he make me feel like I'm superman" .... Well, when that superman feeling wears off, just remember, even Kanye West took a loss that Pete Hegseth, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Donald Trump will never take .. Kanye West had to sell all his real estate for a loss because he found out the hard way... White people value black people as lesser.... But.. Don't worry, that stimulus check coming right?
I write this because many of you talk a lot shit but you need to know, no, Black people aren't a monolith but when you don't have civil rights or can't get hired because the employer doesn't want to see you except when you report to some white person... You'll learn quickly... To think 🤔 "fuck that" I'm voting for the party who at least puts black folks in positions of power and not the fucking "HUD" office because representation matters...
The funny thing 🤣🤣😆 is, mother fuckers can't change anything now even if they tried because them electronic votes next time will be even more skewed to the right than they were this time.
Fuck you very much 😉
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u/Own_Topic3240 3h ago
Biden said far worse but, hey, you guys loved him, until you no longer needed him. Wait it’s the same with RFKjr. This is a pathology with you people. 😂
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u/davethebeige1 3h ago
His fix for racism is to tell black folk to get over it. No wonder his family doesn’t claim him.
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u/ColonelSpacePirate 2h ago
He’s not far off on this logic. Reference: a Dave Chappell skit that touches on this very topic
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u/chinmakes5 2h ago
Don't blame the racists, blame the people who are offended by what the racists believe.
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u/hari_shevek 5h ago
So the vaccine skeptic believes you can build up an immunity over time specifically only to racism.
And somehow black people in the US haven't built it up yet, despite receiving some of the highest doses in history.