• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    27 days ago

    While I agree with the sentiment, there’s always 1 person who says something really racist or something and does get into trouble, but usually gets a bunch of right wing support too.
    Edit: Google search mentions several, including Ferguson police officer being extremely racist, a teacher also being racist calling Michelle a gorilla, a NY police officer got a mere 60 days for a slur and suggesting the president ā€œgo die in a shallow grave.ā€

    The overall point stands that they did way worse than someone calling out the truth, but right wing defenders will definitely say it happened with Obama too.

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      27 days ago

      I guess, Obama didn’t respond like this:

      TJ SabulaĀ shout ā€œPedophile protector!ā€ at Trump, before the presidentĀ respondedĀ with a middle finger and a ā€œf*ck youā€