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Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.

by hatenberg 6y ago

nailer 6y ago
How is warning people not to loot 'fanning the flames'?
- derwiki 6y ago
  The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”
  - nailer 6y ago
    > The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967 it was meant to evoke that event Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.
    - gjeck 6y ago
      Can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Do some reading. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-...
      - nailer 6y ago
        If it's genuinely not obvious, I'm surprised you believe a conspiracy that Trump was secretly refering to an event most people have never heard of, rather than rhyming.
        ashes-of-sol 6y ago
        It's yet another dog whistle to his white supremacist followers, though more of a blasting trumpet than a dog whistle
    - cmurf 6y ago
      This is the same attempt at plausible deniability of Republican institutional racism since the Nixon Southern Strategy as clearly, undeniably, articulated by its inventor. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... Trump peddled a racist lie and conspiracy theory for five years, before he was even in politics. Birtherism. And before that, the Central Park Five. And before that the federal lawsuit against him and his dad for discrimination in housing. It's not plausibly deniable. And this is the same thing.
      - nailer 6y ago
        Exactly re: birtherism and Central Park five. Trump's racism is overt. Not secret messages.
- manoj_venkat92 6y ago
  "When the looting starts, shooting starts" Read that above statement, how is it not fanning the flames? That a way a president get to talk to an oppressed black population?
  - nailer 6y ago
    You should not treat black people as synonymous with looters.
    - mrcorona 6y ago
      Are average HK citizens exposed to more police brutality than minorities and the poor in the US? Our administration acts like that's the case (especially during the HK protests) but it doesn't ring true.
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Last I checked there is flames everywhere now and he is certainly fanning them.

nailer 6y ago

How is warning people not to loot 'fanning the flames'?

derwiki 6y ago
The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”
- nailer 6y ago
  > The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967 it was meant to evoke that event Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.
  - gjeck 6y ago
    Can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Do some reading. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-when-the-looting-starts-the-shooting-starts https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-...
    - nailer 6y ago
      If it's genuinely not obvious, I'm surprised you believe a conspiracy that Trump was secretly refering to an event most people have never heard of, rather than rhyming.
      - ashes-of-sol 6y ago
        It's yet another dog whistle to his white supremacist followers, though more of a blasting trumpet than a dog whistle
  - cmurf 6y ago
    This is the same attempt at plausible deniability of Republican institutional racism since the Nixon Southern Strategy as clearly, undeniably, articulated by its inventor. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa... Trump peddled a racist lie and conspiracy theory for five years, before he was even in politics. Birtherism. And before that, the Central Park Five. And before that the federal lawsuit against him and his dad for discrimination in housing. It's not plausibly deniable. And this is the same thing.
    - nailer 6y ago
      Exactly re: birtherism and Central Park five. Trump's racism is overt. Not secret messages.
manoj_venkat92 6y ago
"When the looting starts, shooting starts" Read that above statement, how is it not fanning the flames? That a way a president get to talk to an oppressed black population?
- nailer 6y ago
  You should not treat black people as synonymous with looters.
  - mrcorona 6y ago
    Are average HK citizens exposed to more police brutality than minorities and the poor in the US? Our administration acts like that's the case (especially during the HK protests) but it doesn't ring true.

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