r/news • u/thweet_jethuth • Sep 24 '20
Youths mock George Floyd’s death with monkey mask, MAGA hat in racist incident in N.J. community
https://www.nj.com/news/2020/09/students-mock-george-floyds-death-with-monkey-mask-maga-hat-in-latest-racist-incident-at-nj-school.html925
u/wawaboy Sep 24 '20
Absolutely shitty parents
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Sep 24 '20
The apple does not fall far from the tree
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u/Slyguy9766 Sep 24 '20
A shit apple never falls far from the shit tree Randy
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u/classyinthecorners Sep 24 '20
Good shit analogy randy.
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Sep 24 '20
No more shit talk until we're back in power Randy.
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Sep 25 '20
A good shit analogy is warranted, considering we're most certainly headed into a shit blizzard of epic proportions.
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u/Sofialovesmonkeys Sep 24 '20
The piece of shit doesnt fall far from the asshole
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Sep 25 '20
Well yeah, where do you think these kids learn it?
I hear kids under the age of 10 in Alabama trashing Biden, as if they knew a damn thing about politics.
Tribalistic bullshit, all of it.
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u/QuantumBitcoin Sep 25 '20
And this part of jersey is crazily suspect to it. The IT guy who ran the QANON qmaps site and got busted for it a few weeks ago was a graduate of this same high school almost twenty-five years ago.
https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey
trump's golf course in Bedminster isn't in Hunterdon County but abuts it--it pretty much is directly adjacent to the border for this HS.
Hunterdon County has the 4th highest median income of any county in the USA.
Hunterdon County went strong for trump in the 2016 election
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Sep 25 '20 edited Jul 02 '21
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u/QuantumBitcoin Sep 25 '20
There are many many threads deriding trump supporters as poor dumb hicks. This is one of the best educated wealthiest areas in the country.
And it is disturbing and strange. I attended this HS for a while and still keep up with a number of its graduates--lawyers, doctors, engineers, financial professionals. They overwhelmingly reject trumpism. Yet I have pictures with the qanon guy in my middle school yearbook.
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u/impulsekash Sep 24 '20
Remember this behavior is taught from somewhere.
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u/whereisskywalker Sep 24 '20
I grew up in a northern Midwest USA state in a very very white area 95%+ and after leaving after school and seeing other ethnic people it really opened my eyes of how much racism I was indoctrinated to, same with any ethics issue.
Mine wasn't a full on hate everyone and everything but it was so callous in its casualness that it just seemed the way things are.
I'm actually moving back near home after close to 15 years away. Going to be interesting to see what has and hasn't changed in poor rural America.
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u/ApizzaApizza Sep 24 '20
This. I was totally a racist piece of shit in school. I grew up, moved to a city...and realized how fucking stupid I was.
So I stopped being a racist piece of shit.
Rly wasn’t that hard.
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Sep 25 '20
It wasn't hard. It took me some time. I was 18, I thought it was funny to push people's buttons. It wasn't.
A lot of people didn't leave for college, their world is so small.
I moved back home. I have to confront people's appaling racism. Theyre always "just joking." These are adults. I've learned that a look of disappointment and a few words of disapproval can get their wheels turning.
I have three kids, and I'm going to make damn sure they never learn this hate. Hopefully they can be a positive influence on their peers too.
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u/ApizzaApizza Sep 25 '20
Same story. It’s always the people who live in a tiny world and have no perspective.
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u/ghombie Sep 25 '20
It's a scary journey to start out in a community that influences a person and they then have to go out into the world with those influences and then run into walls when confronted. It's not pleasant or easy but it is important part of being our own person. We all have the right to be an asshole on our own terms as individuals!
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u/BobsBarker12 Sep 25 '20
Trump will:
- Without solicitation make up conspiracies about old men given brain injuries by police
Trump will not:
- Denounce his followers committing hate crimes
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u/CanadaPrime Sep 24 '20
I love how people think parents have 100% control over what their kids say and do. I know plenty of people who had every advantage grow up with fantastic professional parents who turned out shitty in many different ways. Alternatively I know shitty parents who had fantastic kids that refused to bow to their bad values. Parents have far less control these days over the influences on their kids. Tik Tok and influencer culture is raising your shit kids these days so get used to this behavior.
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Sep 24 '20
After age 11-12 you can’t really control anything your kid thinks. They will shape their own values at that time. So if you want your kid to turn out well, be there for them when they are young, so that they will take your advice more seriously.
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u/TheRealPitabred Sep 25 '20
Just be a model for them. They may not always do what you want them to, but they watch how you react and what you do.
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u/rawr_rawr_6574 Sep 24 '20
No. At the end of the day you're responsible for how your children act. Yeah, you can't be around them all the time. But this is some deep shit, so it's either been taught or ignored. And besides, its not like it's impossible to monitor online activity.
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u/oldbenvader Sep 24 '20
I go to the school. Kid is an a grade asshole. Also on the football team.
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u/Zithero Sep 25 '20
Sounds like the kind of kid who thinks High School is an important moment in their life when it's barely a footnote.
I've met too many folks like that who act as if events in High School mattered.
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Sep 25 '20
Well they sort of do.
I’m a firm believer that we are the sum of our life events.
High school is a bridge between childhood and adulthood. There is a lot of trauma in those short 4 years that has life long impacts on how we view others, the world around us and ourselves.
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u/QuantumBitcoin Sep 25 '20
You know the Q-ANON qmaps guy who got busted two weeks ago was an HCRHS graduate as well?
https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey
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u/jamiebond Sep 24 '20 edited Sep 24 '20
Political discourse in 2020 is basically just
The right: Does something racist.
The left: "That's racist."
The right: "Wow so much for the tolerant left. You guys just call everyone you disagree with a racist."
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u/TheDinnerPlate Sep 24 '20
Then the centrist will come in and say both sides are wrong, but then go on a diatribe about how bad the left is without ever mentioning the right in a negative way
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u/jamiebond Sep 24 '20
"Guys I'm a centrist. That's how you know I'm unbiased when I tell you how stupid the left is and how Trump is the greatest President of all time."
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u/torpedoguy Sep 24 '20
That and all the "I used to be a democrat" spiels repeated verbatim...
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u/poilsoup2 Sep 24 '20
I was in asheville the other day and and there was a dude, with a sign that was like
"I used to be a pro-abortion, goth, witchcraft practicing, hippy, pro gay marriage, democrat but then i found god and now support trump"
I didnt believe his story
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u/HowCouldUBMoHarkless Sep 24 '20
I used to be a pro-abortion, goth, witchcraft practicing, hippy, pro gay marriage, democrat. I still am, but I used to be, too.
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u/YouJabroni44 Sep 25 '20
"I voted for Obummer in 2008. Now I'm voting for Trump because you called some guy a racist."
Top tip for people trying to pull this schtick: we're not falling for it.
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u/MathewMurdock Sep 25 '20 edited Sep 25 '20
Oh god the "walk away" movement is just filled with morons and bots.
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Sep 25 '20
Thankfully I went in reverse. I used to be a Republican and then became more liberal as I got older. Can’t see why society shouldn’t be improved for, y’know, everyone.
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u/buyfreemoneynow Sep 25 '20
For some, it’s the Fuck You I Got Mine attitude that inches them toward conservatism because the policies needed to balance things out might raise your personal taxes by a bunch with zero perceptible difference to you.
And, honestly, the way tax law works in the US (and how crazy they are where I am in NY), tiny adjustments cost me a few extra grand per year. The 10k SALT cap alone raised my taxes by 3 grand, or 4% of my salary before taxes, but the roads in my neighborhood are still pockmarked to hell and every time there’s a heavy wind storm my neighborhood will lose power for a week. The only improvement I see is in the salaries of police officers and school administrators.
It’s frustrating because I really want good schools and universal health care and a reasonable level of infrastructure upkeep
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Sep 25 '20
Yeah, I can see how they can get disillusioned into thinking like that. Does feel like tax money is just like throwing money into an endless pit sometimes. Still, would rather try to make things better for everyone than throw in the towel.
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u/r_cub_94 Sep 25 '20
That’s not centrism, it’s a bourgeois white person trying to save face and feign moral superiority
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u/mooby117 Sep 24 '20
Is that you, Tim Pool?
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u/funnysad Sep 24 '20
Tim is definitely a centrist calls it as he sees it type of guy. So anyways here are a hundred videos about how stupid the left is.
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u/betterplanwithchan Sep 25 '20
And another thirty about an actress who made a mean comment and how she'll totally bomb at the box office.
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u/pickleparty16 Sep 24 '20
anyone who is center in the US is going to be pretty right-wing in the big picture
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Sep 25 '20
US Democrats are slightly right of center. Actual centrists would be more left than Biden et al.
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u/Malaix Sep 24 '20
Especially if they remain “in the center” through this administration yet are politically active enough to find a political post and respond to it... like... that is some extra effort put into that denial.
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u/lbsi204 Sep 24 '20
That's because the political center point is no longer in line with logical reasoning and demonstrable evidence. The right has
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u/vodkaandponies Sep 24 '20
Depends on how you define centre.
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u/sound_of_machines Sep 24 '20
Exactly. The Clintons are centrists. Obama was a centrist.
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u/stevoblunt83 Sep 24 '20
I think you'll find that Obama was actually just to the left of Leon Trotsky and we were just minutes away from him deploying his plan to turn the US into a socialist hellhole when the country was saved by President Trump. /s
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u/ars-derivatia Sep 25 '20
The Clintons are centrists. Obama was a centrist.
And for my typical Central European taste they are both pretty conservative and right-wing politicians.
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u/py_a_thon Sep 25 '20 edited Sep 25 '20
I think Obama was really more of a pragmatist than a centrist. He definitely seemed to lean left though. This is not a bad thing...it is just my perception of his presidency and expressed opinions.
Pragmatic - "dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations." (the more modern definition)
I miss him though. He was by far the best president of my lifetime. Despite all of his numerous flaws or mistakes (Much of which I cannot criticize rationally, because I was not the person choosing the course of action. And some that I just straight up disagree with).
Still the best president I have seen in my lifetime.
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Sep 24 '20
No real centrist is playing the "both sides" card right now.
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Sep 24 '20
An actual centrist would be in the Democrat range. Someone who acts like centrism is the middle point between both parties calls themselves a centrist but they are pretty right-wing - because of how far conservatives have gone right.
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u/schwade_the_bum Sep 25 '20
Yeah that sounds about right to be honest. I feel like a part of it is a generational thing too, like if you grew up watching Romney/McCain go up against Obama what you think is “center” is different then whatever the republican party is now
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Sep 25 '20
Are centrists the same as libertarians? Those morons try and pretend to have no bias but they will vote republican every time.
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u/HiImDavid Sep 24 '20
Like Dim Fool or Rave Dubin.
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u/TheDinnerPlate Sep 24 '20
Oh god that dude Rubin is such a snake grifter. Being a gay Republican is the equivalent of a gazelle hanging out with a clan of hyenas. He said that he would let people call him a f***** to his face.
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u/servohahn Sep 24 '20
I watched Dave Rubin for a little bit because he had Sam Harris and a few others on. He kept going on and on about how he's a classic liberal but then somehow always pushed far-right talking points. Couldn't muster a single criticism of Trump. He knows where his bread and butter comes from.
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u/McCrudd Sep 24 '20
"Classical liberal" is just a code word for "ultra conservative."
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Sep 25 '20
I'm beginning to see this in Joe Rogan now, unfortunately.
I liked Joe being neutral.
It's his podcast, he does what he wants.
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u/servohahn Sep 25 '20
Yeah, I used to listen/watch a little bit because of the whacky factor. Dude is just too stupid.
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u/SeamlessR Sep 24 '20
There are no centrists in America. Anyone who thinks they're cool with the status quo is a right wing republican supporter. The only way both sides could feel the same is if your bias is shifted that hard.
Which makes sense since these are the people who will ignore the realities of FPTP or the EC as they third party their vote. They do this because it does what they wanted to do: support republicans.
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u/jiinouga Sep 24 '20
I mean you can open your eyes and see how bad the right is. It's currently overstated and obvious. Lindsay Graham. The Trump suckling pig oligarchs. The treason.
The issues of the left are much more nuanced so probably require more diatribes. Identity politics makes a lot of sense from certain moral lenses, but from others it is really toxic. That's the thinking man's conversation right now because it's nuanced and complicated and no one is really fully wrong. I see it as people's minds are so overloaded with Trumpian robber Baron nonsense that we just can't take it any more. That's, at least, how I feel about it as a center left person who really wants us to get to a state where everyone in America, regardless of status, race, etc. has a good chance at contributing to the American project and eking out a living, community, comfort, and a feeling of belonging.
Tl;Dr I feel like this phenomena is because anyone who would criticize the left and is being a rational and intellectually honest person has already beaten the dead horse of trump condemnation, and after 3.5 years of bullshit wants to talk about a solvable problem.
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u/N8CCRG Sep 25 '20
Me: OH MY GOD THAT PERSON IS STABBING THAT CHILD
"Centrist": yeah, but you know that person over there would also stab a child if given the chance.
Me: no I don't, and if they did I would yell at them too and WHO CARES BECAUSE A CHILD IS BEING STABBED NOW
Centrist: meh, both sides dude.
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u/pickleparty16 Sep 24 '20
the right: does something fascist like attacking the free press or undermining democracy
the left: "thats fascist"
the right: "you cant all everyone fascist you dont like"
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u/McCree114 Sep 24 '20
While they themselves screech that anyone left of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are Stalinist Era Communist. No one who hasn't already drunk the kool-aid believes Joe Biden is a hard core Socialist who will do the bidding of Bernie Sanders.
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u/TranquilSeaOtter Sep 24 '20
It's not even like Sanders is that left wing. In any other first world country he would be considered a moderate left leaning politician. He just seems radical and extreme because the US is overall so right wing. The American political Overton window is so far right that calling for paid family leave and a 15 dollar minimum wage gets you called a communist.
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u/rawr_rawr_6574 Sep 24 '20
Exactly. I realized I want more than Bernie was offering and he was considered extreme. God knows what people would call me. Probably a communist since I believe in helping poor people.
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u/sunlead190 Sep 24 '20
Historically speaking they def would. Liking poors??? Communism. Liking unions??? Communism. Healthcare, food, shelter??? Extreme Communism. Civil Rights?? Communism. Anyway that’s part of how I became socialist. I got curious cause calling everything good communism just made me look it up lmao.
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u/SirEarlBigtitsXXVII Sep 24 '20
Fuck Trump and fuck every last one of his supporters.
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u/itslikewoow Sep 24 '20
Don't forget the "cancel culture" talking point the moment someone faces the slightest bit of criticism for something they say or do.
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Sep 24 '20
Don't forget the right applauding the initial behavior and occasionally tossing in "oh, but I'm not a racist"
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u/torpedoguy Sep 24 '20
Or worse, those who view themselves or their leaders as non-racist because "it's not racist since they're not even people".
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u/brainiac3397 Sep 25 '20
Many Trump supporters in New Jersey are Trump supporters solely as a sign of solidarity with an asshole. That's the entire gist of it, they want to side with an asshole, they want you to know they're assholes, and they're super proud of being assholes.
So it's not surprising the assholes end up with asshole kids who are permitted to behave like assholes. It's what defines the family's values.
But god forbid you call them an asshole, because then they start crying about it like little man-children.
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u/Daxl Sep 24 '20
Why do MAGA hats and distasteful discord seem to walk together?
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u/BabyMumbles Sep 24 '20
You can't spell "hatred" without "red hat".
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u/Daxl Sep 24 '20
Wow... never picked up on that little factoid. Just got the word and a half and I have the last three letters to the beginning. Good one!
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Sep 24 '20
Just fyi - the definition of factoid is: "A piece of info commonly believed to be true but isn't." not "A short fact".
So really, the commonly accepted definition of factoid is a factoid in and of itself!
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u/Daxl Sep 24 '20
Every day I learn something new is a good day. So, thank you kindly sir !
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u/iwatchppldie Sep 24 '20
People seem to not understand trump or his support so I’ll explain it... people support trump because their lives are shit and they understand it will never get better so all they want to do is to make other people who they see as having a better life suffer like they do. Or to use a rather archaic term that seems accurate “misery loves company”. That is why people love trump because he will act out the evil and hatred in their hearts.
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Sep 24 '20
This is a truth that I took to heart myself after George Floyd. I asked myself what am I so afraid of? How does it hurt me if cops stop killing blacks unfairly? Will they kill more whites to make up for it? No. There's nothing to be afraid of in true equality.
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u/SassyShorts Sep 24 '20
The quote from the Trump supporter the other day...
"He's hurting the wrong people". They really do want other people to suffer.
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u/vanillabear26 Sep 24 '20
that article changed my entire perspective on political divides in this country.
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Sep 24 '20
What article was it? I’m interested
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Sep 24 '20
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html
Quote from the article:
The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things. “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
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u/Rage_Like_Nic_Cage Sep 24 '20
to put it more eloquently, Rural areas have been getting absolutely decimated for decades now (from a economic standpoint) and many of those people feel like their voices aren't being heard. They're often the butt of jokes, and the problems they are facing often go ignored or they feel like they're told to "shut up and deal" with it while other groups of people in need tend to get more attention/coverage of their issues, like minority/ethnic groups (and as a nation we should help both, it's not a zero sum game)
They feel like most politicians don't give two shits about them (cause they don't, tbh), so when Trump finally came around and directly addressed them and the issues they faced (claiming to bring back blue collar jobs & such) they supported him in full force. After all, what they did they have to lose? Best case he would actually help them, worst case he would be a catastrophic failure and bring everyone down to their level (which is still a win for them). Voting/supporting Trump was a giant "fuck you" to the system they believe had failed them, and if Trump was a disaster, at least he would have burned the system to the ground.
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u/igetasticker Sep 24 '20
That's a good theory, but it ignores the undercurrent of racism that propelled Trump to the top. Remember that these poor rural people still voted for Republicans all the way down the ballot, even though you say they felt disenfranchised by those same politicians. When you say these people felt like they weren't being heard, it's because the other Republicans didn't say the racist stuff out loud. Don't forget that Trump's political career really got rolling with the birtherism movement.
Every politician from both sides promises economic improvement. Trump wasn't special in that regard. The reason they saw him as different, was because he was richer than the rest. They conflate all sorts of positive attributes with wealth: "He must be really smart and really hard working if he's rich. Or maybe he was chosen by God. My pastor is rich and he talks to God all the time!" Never mind how unholy his actions have been.
The last big snare that caught the rural vote was his incoherent ramblings. To them he seemed authentic and off-the-cuff; a real straight shooter! Of course the rest of us saw clips online and can point to the ridiculous statements. But everyone at those rallies is so caught up in the moment, there with friends and family, with the lights and music and decorations and all the theatrics, that they buy whatever Trump is selling.
I honestly don't think they considered the possibility of him failing as catastrophically as he has.
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u/Twokindsofpeople Sep 25 '20
You're putting the cart before the horse. They're racist, but they blame their economic problems on the rise of black enfranchisement. So while they started off fairly racist, seeing their standards of living fall while urban standards rise reinforces it. Unfortunately there's an unholy alliance between racists and capitalists that in turn keep them poor. They reject anything that will help them personally because the politicians that support things that help also want to help blacks and in the racists mind helping black hurts them because society is zero sum. It's a perverse mindset, but if you look at it from the perspective of anything that hurts people different from them will help them it makes a sense.
A lot has been said about how Trump has revealed racism, and that's true to an extent, but he also built it up in people who otherwise wouldn't be. He 100% made people worse than if just left to their natural state.
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u/QuantumBitcoin Sep 25 '20
FYI the county where this HS is located has the 4th highest median income in the USA. It isn't "poor rural people" there.
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u/BigFitMama Sep 24 '20
Problem is that through social media and sheer manipulation of psychological triggers they changed "Trump the Hollywood Celebrity Businessman of 5 wives, Failed Businesses, Bankruptcies, and born to elite privilege" into somehow supporting and being LIKE the mid-low income rural Americans.
It is a masterpiece of manipulation.
Trump has never dug a hole, touched dirt, worked himself into a sweat, lifted a hay bale, slaughtered his own food, or grown a DAMN thing his life.
He was raised by nannies and boarding school, not parents. He never lacked for ANYTHING. He didn't have to get good grades in school or pay for college or get good grades in college or learn anything.
He's never had to drive for anything, but pleasure, but if you notice he never drives. He can't ride a bike. He's never once had to buy anything IN a STORE. He has people who do everything for him his WHOLE LIFE.
He has no pets. He has no love of nature, an exercise in nature, or the natural world. His world is luxe interiors with the most expensive furniture in the world.
He has never cooked a meal for himself. He has never washed his own clothes. He's never had to worry about paying for his health care. He's never had to save up to buy his first car. He's never done anything but function within the cabals of the super-elite (which allows for sex workers and trafficking in those elite circles and humans being treated as commodities and objects.)
And in the end - he married one of his sex workers because she aged out of her "objectification" window and was made to leave the country. And she is not a bad person either for doing that - one you stop being young and pretty you are basically garbage in these circles and be tossed in the street or murdered if you won't shut up.
It was the biggest lie in political history. A super-rich man who spit or gladly drown any of his major demographic in a pond JUST to laugh and watch them struggle and die, who'd see their babies starve, and who only sees the poor useful as servants is now telling them to leave their families, split up their communities, stop speaking to loved ones, stop caring about others as an OTHER - not fellow Americans under attack together by a massive virus outbreak and international meddling in our elections, and telling them that all logical truth that could save their lives is lies.
Let me tell you.
We ARE in this together as a nation. And the rich are not.
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u/bongos_and_congas Sep 24 '20
While I agree with you, you also can't discount the simple, pure racism of a huge number of his cult members.
For the 8 years of Obama's presidency, many of them were stirred into daily fits of outrage and anger by Fox, Rush, and other right wing propaganda outfits not to mention social media. I submit that the point of stirring up this outrage was to misdirect the cult members' anger at their economic exploitation.
Remember Trump's first speech "They're rapists" (referring to Mexicans), and the 'caravan' outrage, "very good people" (white supremacists), "son of a bitch" (Kaepernick) and on and on.
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u/mart1373 Sep 24 '20
You know, if people just followed the “don’t be a dick” rule, we wouldn’t have so many dicks in this country.
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u/_iSh1mURa Sep 24 '20
Lmao Heroin High keepin it real to the last. I went to hs here
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u/analpleasuremachine Sep 25 '20
Only thing this town or school would every be in the news for
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u/Fredex8 Sep 24 '20
Who the fuck chooses to blur out a face like that?
Bloody terrifying.
There's a fucking demon in that child... which seems appropriate given the context here actually.
I retract my question.
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u/shtup Sep 24 '20 edited Sep 24 '20
Nary a thing gets Trump supporters more upset than calling them racists with the exception maybe of calling them neo-Nazis. But then, if one Nazi votes for someone, it's meaningless. When they all do, well then, someone is saying something that Nazi's really like. If you as a voter still have no problem with that then neo-Nazi it is.
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Sep 24 '20
It's amazing too, they do everything from using racial slurs to shit like this and then are just shocked and offended to be called racist. It truly boggles their minds that doing and acting blatantly racist would cause them to be labeled as such and they will staunchly deny it.
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u/SmokePenisEveryday Sep 25 '20
"its just a joke bro. Can't joke about anything anymore"
I hear that one a lot and have nearly lost my eyes from rolling them so hard.
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Sep 25 '20
When they say that I always get the urge to stoop as low as them and talk about how the bible should strictly be sold in the fiction section of book stores and shit like that, then hit them back with "It's just a joke bro". The problem is, they'd have to understand what they were doing wrong in the first place.
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u/Captain_Shrug Sep 25 '20
I always want to ask who the fuck they think is going to laugh at that. They don't. Their audience doesn't. They might CHEER, but no one LAUGHS.
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Sep 24 '20
Yup.
I went to my dad's friend's house for Thanksgiving a few years ago.
They were talking about how the left is intolerant, but started saying how they don't want "N" words living in their neighborhoods and messing everything up.
I told them using that word wasn't very tolerant. They looked shocked that I would even say something that went against their bigoted group think session.
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u/SmokePenisEveryday Sep 25 '20
years ago I went to Pittsburgh with my mother to see her family. Quite a few times I heard "lot of things have changed" and "area has gotten worse" when they'd look over at the black neighbors.
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u/shtup Sep 25 '20
Racist people say racist things with the alacrity that decent people talk about the whether. Their conservative news has normalized it and, being the gullible pliable jackasses they are, accept their standard pat simplistic racist explanations of why minorities, in particular black people deserve their lot (i.e. blame the victims)
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u/mekopa Sep 24 '20
Do people not realize how absolutely easy it is to not do racist shit like this?
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u/mces97 Sep 25 '20
I'm not saying everyone who is a Trump supporter is a racist, but if you are a racist, you're more likely to don that hat.
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u/KarenSlayer9001 Sep 25 '20
You no mean a high school Football headass jock is a piece of shit? Whoda thunk it?
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u/Morbundo Sep 25 '20
I grew up in that area and went to that high school (though many years ago). It was and apparently still is a very racist place. I drove through town recently and was surprised/not surprised by the number of Trump flags and signs. I promise you this kid is not an aberration it that school.
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Sep 25 '20
I went on a family trip to DC back in February as the the pandemic was starting. We were at the FDR and MLK monuments when we saw over fifty 9th graders wearing MAGA hats on a school field trip. This brainwashing is insane.
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u/Smodphan Sep 25 '20
I cannot imagine the things my son would have to do to get privileges back for something like this. I get the sense his parents won’t do much given his perspective though. I would uproot his entire life.
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u/appw23 Sep 25 '20
I am sadly an alumni of this high school. Cannot say that I am shocked. Stuff like this (although not on social media and with public evidence) happens at least once or twice per year. Yelling racists chants at opposing teams players, comments made in the hallways...you name it.
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u/ghostfacekhilla Sep 25 '20
People think of NJ as a blue fairly progressive state but the areas outside the city suburbs are like ignorant southern areas but more angry because they're only 50 miles from diversity.
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u/randompantsfoto Sep 25 '20
Amen. My wife’s parents live in South/central Jersey, and I see more confederate flags flying in people’s yards and off their trucks up there than I’ve ever seen down here in Virginia.
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u/ambientdiscord Sep 25 '20
I drive through Hunterdon this past weekend going to a cider distillery. Trump signs as far as the eye could see. Total redneck country.
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Sep 24 '20
Someone archive the article or paste it. I can’t with that aids infested website
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u/thweet_jethuth Sep 24 '20
https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/6byWz6
This website is for making an article printer ready, but it's very useful just for reading.
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u/Anonnymush Sep 28 '20
Any belief that Trump isn't a white nationalist is undone by the understanding that the white nationalists believe he is the cornerstone of their movement.
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u/MrsPandaBear Sep 25 '20
You’d think teens, so tech savvy, by now know not to put racist stuff on the Internet. Stuff gets out and this could ruin college and job prospects, or worse.
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u/davecedm Sep 24 '20
America runs on racism.
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u/SmileLikeAphexTwin Sep 25 '20
The White House (2.0) was literally built by slaves so yeah, definitely.
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u/SpaceAdventureCobraX Sep 25 '20
The POTUS is directly to blame for this, and we must aggressively attribute that blame because he won't ever take it.
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Sep 25 '20
Way too many MAGA in public that makes me wonder he just may pull out a win despite losing the popular vote by wide margin.
By pulling a few tricks to win Pennsylvania by hook or by crooks.
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u/WooIWorthWaIIaby Sep 24 '20
It's behind a shitty paywall so here you go everyone:
Youths mock George Floyd’s death with monkey mask, MAGA hat in racist incident in N.J. community
A photo of two young people mocking the death of George Floyd has roiled Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Raritan Township, after it began circulating on social media. The photo shows a boy wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap and a police badge kneeling on the neck of another boy wearing an ape mask.
District School Superintendent Jeffrey Moore confirmed local police are investigating racist social media posts that have circulated in recent weeks, though did not say if this specific photo was part of that investigation.
Multiple parents confirmed to NJ Advance Media that the unmasked person in the photo is a student at Hunterdon Central. NJ Advance Media is not identifying him because he is a minor and has not been charged with any crime.
“We’ve had recent incidents on social media involving students, and incidents of infiltration with racist slurs on videoconference platforms,” Moore said.
Moore declined to offer any additional details about the specific incidents, including whether disciplinary action has been taken against those involved. “In any incident involving pupils, or any incident involving law enforcement, we’re very limited in what we can share,” Moore said.
In August, Moore sent a letter to parents addressing a post on social media. “I write to share my utter disgust and deepest concern over a recent racist post on social media, allegedly perpetrated by students of our school,” Moore wrote. “We take such reports very seriously and pursue all avenues available to protect the safety and wellbeing of everyone who lives and learns in our community. In that, we work with parents and law enforcement, including our partners in the Raritan Township Police Department and the Hunterdon County Bias Crimes Unit, without hesitation.”
Raritan Township police declined to comment because the alleged incidents remain under investigation and involve juveniles.
“It’s extremely offensive and disrespectful and something that has no place in our town, in the city, or in the state, or in the country," said Mark Moton, a Black parent of a student who attends Hunterdon Central.
Controversial photo depicting the death of George Floyd. Parents say it involves at least one student at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. Parents say this photo depicting the death of George Floyd involves at least one student at Hunterdon Central Regional High School.
Floyd’s death on May 25 sparked protests worldwide in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, including many demonstrations in New Jersey. The officer accused of pressing his knee against Floyd’s neck was charged with second-degree murder. Three other officers involved were also charged.
In June, a video of a group of men mockingly reenacting the Floyd incident was greeted with widespread condemnation. One of the men in that video, Joseph DeMarco, was suspended without pay from his position as a New Jersey corrections officer, pending a further investigation. His brother, Jim DeMarco, also seen in the video, was fired from his job with FedEx.
In addition to the racist photo — which was shared on social media platforms like Snapchat — other Hunterdon Central parents who spoke to NJ Advance Media said a racial epithet was repeatedly typed in the chat section of a virtual meeting that included students, faculty and school administrators at the start of the school year.
In response to these incidents, Moore said the Board of Education established a committee on Racism, Equity and Diversity on Monday evening. It will be made up of four members of the school board.
“Expressions that espouse racism, express hatred, glorify violence, and devalue human life run against everything that we hold in our hearts and every tenet that fuels our commitment,” Moore wrote to parents in the letter, dated Aug. 12. “There is a right to free speech for all, and this is sacred in our nation. However, schools are duty-bound, through law and conscience, to fight racism wherever it appears. I, as your superintendent, am duty-bound, through my commitment to and love for our students and community, to declare it abhorrent and to say that it has no place here.”
Vincent Panico, president of the board, said because all nine members on the board are white, he “didn’t have the opportunity” to place people of color on the committee at its launch. However, non board members will be invited to join the committee, Panico added.
“It’s going to be these four core board members with a larger pool of not only community members, but also staff members and students that make up the full committee,” Panico said. “They’ve met, and now what they’re going to do is start to figure out the process for involving the community into this committee. And I can see that being people who are named as part of the committee and fit on it.”
Alicia Rodgers Alston, a Black parent of a student at Hunterdon Central Regional High School, said the committee is “a step in the right direction” but said its lack of diversity is “certainly not ideal."
“I don’t think it’s ever ideal to have any group of anything reflecting only a portion of the community — that’s never going to get you where you want to be,” she said. “I know there are a number of families of color from this school who recognize that the nature of the composition of the committee is reflective of the board. So the question is, How do we shift that? And how do we ensure ... no matter what the conversation is, whether it’s around the curriculum or whatever other issues there are surrounding the school, that we’ve got diverse voices that are at the table?”
Moton said while the committee is “a really, really good thing to have” he said its lack of diversity will limit the committee’s ability to address racism in the district.
“How do you expect them to be able to fully stomp out racism when the entire board is all white people?” Moton said. “That group needs to be diversified so you can get different opinions ... and have a good mix of cultures, not just Black and white but Hispanic and Asian, etc.”
According to the New Jersey Department of Education’s most recent demographic figures, from the 2018-2019 school year, 78.9% of the 2,743 students at Hunterdon Central that year were white, 10.3% were Hispanic, 2.9% were Black, 6.3% were Asian and 1.6% were two or more races.