I wonder what all the outcomes will be from all the aid cutting. Obviously some will suffer from the loss of health aid but will people learn they don’t need US aid? Will they learn they were entirely reliant on it? Will it all just collapse or will a different superpower step in?

I feel bad for the people that lose in these games our governments play, but I am very curious what it’ll look like in 4 years.

Why? What’s that got to do with anything? It’s not what happened in the article. You’re just making a strawman argument.

No. Part of it was whether she was making the comment based on race. Don’t move the goalposts now that I gave the examples you asked for.

Well it does matter, because it’s reality. You exist in the real world, not just an online world made up of echo chambers to your liking. People are going to make jokes not to your taste and they aren’t monsters because you don’t have the same sense of humor.

It’s not like I’m saying it’s an appropriate thing to say to a child in a classroom, just that it’s an established joke and not a default “this person is a racist” kinda comment.

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Oh yeah, big time trivial. Like a joke even.

You’ve got Google so you can look it up yourself. But heres a few of many different references to the joke:

Chris Distefano, a pretty well known comedian does a bit on it.

Here’s a t-shirt from a baby clothes website: https://heybaby.threadless.com/designs/tiny-terrorist-stretch/kids/baby-t-shirt

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1aeyxhj/toddler_terrorist_organization/ A mother calling her toddler a terrorist in a funny video

There obvioualy won’t be a video of a teacher saying it because you don’t film other people’s children and post it online.

Ehh except it is something people say and when pointed at children is a cheeky acknowledgement of how children are completely unreasonable sometimes.

It’s very common to refer to children (most often toddlers) as terrorists. Ive seen it countless times in mom groups and it never has any hate behind it.

Elon is a Nazi because he does Nazi salutes and courts favor with Nazis, and reposts nazi propaganda, calling it true. It’s not comparable.

When conservatives say we have “woke mind virus” this thread is exactly what they are talking about. It’s embarrassing watching something so trivial get blown into some hateful act.

You’ve been infected by racism towards Mexico without even noticing. The migrant workers aren’t all at risk of starvation or being murdered. There’s just a better opportunity in the US. It’s just a better life, not often so dire as you are making it out to be.

People make moves all the time for opportunity. Nothing special here. It’s not the hellscape you are imagining for these millions of people.

Oh then read the Wikipedia page you referenced. It actually gives examples supporting my statement.

And once again, I am not saying it isn’t racist today or that people weren’t racist back then or that the word is OK today or any of the other weird things people keep acting like I said.

I lost my patience with people being willfully ignorant a while ago. I just thought it was an interesting moment in time to see how language evolved. Not terribly dissimilar to many other terms people used to use that later morphed into slurs.

I’m not either. But there’s a difference between isn’t and wasn’t. But again, you don’t care. I’m still not defending racism or racists or racists using the term as a slur later. Ive been super clear. I was just providing historical context.

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“at the world’s inception” should have clued you in on the jest…

I just disagree. We are equally dense at worst. I’ve already expressed people were racist and had slurs that they used. Im not ignoring that or unaware of it or trying to gloss over that. This just wasn’t one of them for a long stretch of time.

You won’t believe it because you just don’t believe it. That’s you being dense. You refuse to accept the reality I’ve witnessed. Terms weren’t used with equal intent globally throughout history. How a term was used in Caldwell Idaho in 1930 is not how it was used in Pennsylvania at the same time, despite them both being America and the people involved all being American.

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Naw, it was most commonly used as a term similar to “that chinese guy” which is easy to confuse with racism at a time period where people were generally racist towards the chinese, but the term itself is not racist. There were actual slurs back then they could use if they were about that.

My Grandmother said they always bought they’re vegetables growing up from the chinaman who rolled his cart through the alleyway behind their homes. It’s not a term of hate, but it’s easy to say hateful things alongside it.

Literally never heard of them. With all the random bullshit companies dumping crap into the market, if you don’t have good name recognition these days, it’s just assumed you are some random Chinese product clone with dubious quality.

This is fine when I purchased my knockoff Dyson vacuum that still works great, but I wouldn’t trust all my data to a company I dont recognize.

LOL what sad shit is that? They don’t live under a blockade so how would me living under one make it NOT a propaganda title? One thing has nothing to do with another. This rhetoric popped up with this bullshit terminology late last year and I don’t know why. Usually it’s some bullshit misinformation campaign trying to rile the kids up. I’m just curious which superpower is financing this codswallop this time.

Such a propaganda title… I wonder who’s paying for these “US Blockade” articles that have been popping up.

My exact thought. I could get up on the balls of my feet, but my ass is falling down those stairs, for sure, on the way down.