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Right-Wingers Are Mad Anti-Welfare Ad Isn't Racist Enough
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Kairos lemmy.today LodeMike@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-26
#52 · Quote Reply

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, who exists almost entirely as a Twitter troll at this point, raged that “black people are astronomically more likely to be on welfare than white people. So the number of single young white male ‘Brads’ abusing the welfare system is minuscule. Practically non-existent. But of course Republicans don’t have the balls to do this ad with ‘Shaniqua’ as the villain.”

Fucking idiot. There are ~4x the white people in the U.S. (>50%) compared to black people in the U.S. (<15%).

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QueenHawlSera piefed.social QueenHawlSera@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-07-14
#53 · Quote Reply

They want to sell the illusion that their racist welfare cuts are, in fact, colorblind, or at least to an outward audience. Even in cases when a certain welfare is more enjoyed by whites, such as disability in Hungary, as Fidesz made it harder to access to many disabled people, due to far-right bloggers between 2006-2010 told people, that "voivode and overweight Roma drug dealers" are pretendin...

How do you pretend to be an amputee?

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ZILtoid1991 lemmy.world ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-16
#54 · Quote Reply

How do you pretend to be an amputee?

Don't remember, how the blogs tried to sold it exactly, but it worked so well, that the state still has to check amputees every year, just in case someone "lied about it".

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FatVegan leminal.space FatVegan@leminal.space
Joined: 2025-11-05
#55 · Quote Reply

Yat they always insist they aren't racists

Which always weirds me out. Like if i were a racist, i would obviously believe this is right and good. So why do racists pretend they are not? Why fo they were masks on tgeir rallies?

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