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Imagine the public reaction to Melania suggest that kids eat apples at school, and I think you'll agree that outrage had nothing to do with nutrition in schools

Imagine the public reaction to Melania suggest that kids eat apples at school, and I think you'll agree that outrage had nothing to do with nutrition in schools. There would be a very small amount of praise from the right, a very small amount of jokes about her being a phone-it-in first lady from the left, and both would be overshadowed by an overwhelming amount of indifference by everyone.

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mrguyorama 8y ago
You seem to underestimate the utter hatred that still exists for the Obamas from those who lean to the right. My brother has convinced himself that she is entirely responsible for a 180 degree change in school lunch policy from delicious homemade health food to trash and low quality, despite both me and my mother (WHO WAS A TEACHER AT THAT VERY SCHOOL AT THE TIME) explaining to him how it has nearly always been that low quality. MAGA is about delusion
forapurpose 8y ago
> Imagine the public reaction to Melania suggest that kids eat apples at school It's just an assumption to say that both sides are the same. Barbara and Laura Bush, for example, were not demonized like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.
- diogenescynic 8y ago
  I think you misread OP’s comment—they’re not saying both sides are the same. Moreover, generally democrats don’t stoop as low as republicans. Republicans attacked Chelsea Clinton when she was like 11—Rush Limbaugh was calling her ugly. Can you imagine any democrats calling Barron ugly or something as vicious? How about how Fox News harassed Obama’s kids? You’d never see that on CNN. Republicanism is a morally bankrupt ideology.
  - somecontext 8y ago
    I can imagine a Democrat saying "Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter".
    - diogenescynic 8y ago
      Right but democrats didn’t stand behind that type of rhetoric like republicans do. It’s just another example of the obvious hypocrisy of the Republican Party—the party of family values that voters for an adulterer with 3 wives, the party of fiscal responsibility that consistently drives up the federal deficit, the party of law and order that doesn’t apply the law equally, the party of Lincoln that now defends white nationalists, and of course the party of the military who ignores veterans and insults Gold Star families. What a crock.
diogenescynic 8y ago
Yep, people (republicans) got fake mad because they didn’t like seeing a smart, successful black women raising her kids better than them AND now how dare her have the audacity to tell them how to raise their kids too? It was all veiled racism masquerading as anything else.

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mrguyorama 8y ago

You seem to underestimate the utter hatred that still exists for the Obamas from those who lean to the right. My brother has convinced himself that she is entirely responsible for a 180 degree change in school lunch policy from delicious homemade health food to trash and low quality, despite both me and my mother (WHO WAS A TEACHER AT THAT VERY SCHOOL AT THE TIME) explaining to him how it has nearly always been that low quality. MAGA is about delusion

forapurpose 8y ago

> Imagine the public reaction to Melania suggest that kids eat apples at school It's just an assumption to say that both sides are the same. Barbara and Laura Bush, for example, were not demonized like Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama.

diogenescynic 8y ago
I think you misread OP’s comment—they’re not saying both sides are the same. Moreover, generally democrats don’t stoop as low as republicans. Republicans attacked Chelsea Clinton when she was like 11—Rush Limbaugh was calling her ugly. Can you imagine any democrats calling Barron ugly or something as vicious? How about how Fox News harassed Obama’s kids? You’d never see that on CNN. Republicanism is a morally bankrupt ideology.
- somecontext 8y ago
  I can imagine a Democrat saying "Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter".
  - diogenescynic 8y ago
    Right but democrats didn’t stand behind that type of rhetoric like republicans do. It’s just another example of the obvious hypocrisy of the Republican Party—the party of family values that voters for an adulterer with 3 wives, the party of fiscal responsibility that consistently drives up the federal deficit, the party of law and order that doesn’t apply the law equally, the party of Lincoln that now defends white nationalists, and of course the party of the military who ignores veterans and insults Gold Star families. What a crock.

diogenescynic 8y ago

Yep, people (republicans) got fake mad because they didn’t like seeing a smart, successful black women raising her kids better than them AND now how dare her have the audacity to tell them how to raise their kids too? It was all veiled racism masquerading as anything else.