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Yep, fully agree with all of this. It's infuriating how leftists have spent decades educating us about how "race is a social construct," celebrating the rich culture of African-Americans, teaching us not to appropriate their culture, and inventing new racial/cultural groups like ADOS and BIPOC to emphasize that being black isn't just a box you check on a form...
Until we get to Kamala Harris. when, apparently, it is. We have always been at war with East Asia!
Hell, it was only a few weeks ago that her supporters were proudly calling themselves "coconut-pilled." I thought it was odd they were so boldly using a racial slur for her, but I guess they wanted to reclaim it? I mean, she's the child of an Indian biologist and a mixed-race Jamaican economist. She was hardly growing up in the mean streets of Oakland- they were always moving from one university to another, and eventually landed in Montreal, pretty much the whitest city in North America. She's like the perfect example of an Oreo/Coconut. White people love Harris because she makes Obama look like Malcom X
Which, you know, is fine. People are influenced by their culture. Harris acts and talks like a white acadamecian because that's the environment she grew up in, and there's nothing wrong with that. But it is, however, deeply "weird" to see her suddenly flip and pretend like she's a true-blue, urban, southern, ADOS black sista, in a cynical ploy to try and grab the kind of black voter support that Obama got.
For what it's worth, I thought Trump handled it pretty well. As usual you have to take him "seriously, not literally." His exact words were a jumble, but I think everyone understood what he was getting at, and I have to imagine there are quite a few voters out there (including some black voters) who appreciate his blunt honestly on the matter.
This is a version of the coconut tree meme, which references an off-the-cuff remark Kamala Harris made back in 2023:
If they were reclaiming anything, it was owning this unusual and memorable quotation as something positive, not a reference to any sort of coconut-based racial slur (which I'm not familiar with). But in my Harris-negative bubble I've only heard it as an example of her trying to be fake-folksy and coming off as off-putting.
Yeah I know that was the original reference. But when you start to repeat "coconut" or an emoji of a coconut, over and over, with no further context... well, it's hard not to see the racial angle. It doesn't seem like it was a particularly inspiring speech, and no one is quoting the actual contents of it. I don't see why it would have gone viral without also being a little bit edgy as reclaiming the racial slur (which not everyone knows, but should be well-known enough among brown-skinned people who are super into politics).
A coconut is white on the inside... Really not a great thing to meme into existence.
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