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To paraphrase the line from the late Paul Mooney on Chappelle, Nikki Haley makes Bobby Jindal look like Malcolm X.
by selimthegrim 2y ago
To paraphrase the line from the late Paul Mooney on Chappelle, Nikki Haley makes Bobby Jindal look like Malcolm X.
- rayiner 2y agoI don’t get the comparison. Who’d be Indian Malcom X? I think of Nikki Haley as Indian Liz Cheney. Jindal is Indian Mike Pence. Kamala Harris is, of course, Indian Dan Quayle.
- selimthegrim 2y agoI have a little trouble seeing Bobby Jindal writing on Gaza bound bombs
- rayiner 2y agoI'm not sure Pence did, Snopes says the story is being corroborated and I'm only seeing it on Arab websites. Haley, meanwhile, was having fun with it: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/israel-hamas/2024/06/06/nikki-haley-writes-finish-them-israel-bomb/73897266007/ https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/israel-hamas/2024.... Which is why your comparison doesn't make sense to me--Haley is obviously the spicy one in the comparison.
- selimthegrim 2y agoYou’re missing the point, and taking it too literally - the context of the original was Wayne Brady being more “assimilated” (not necessarily freer) than Bryant Gumbel, from someone who famously had thought long and hard about the subject [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FsIJFT6N8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34FsIJFT6N8 (For context see this excellent Jezebel article https://www.jezebel.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-all-american-catchphrase-free-1729621311 https://www.jezebel.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-all-american... [2] and accompanying video https://youtu.be/TxAlJq94-b8 https://youtu.be/TxAlJq94-b8) [2] which even cites Brother Malcolm himself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsuaFmN2O98&t=3m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsuaFmN2O98&t=3m35s But now that you made me think about it, Indian Malcolm X is probably Kshama Sawant or someone like that
- rayiner 2y agoKshama Sawant is basically white. Socialist,[1] divorced and remarried to a white guy, childless, socially liberal, etc. By contrast, writing "finish them" on a artillery shell seems like a pretty Indian thing to do these days: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/thanks-to-pm-modi-israeli-survivor-of-october-7-attack-says-india-has-always-been-good-friend/articleshow/109152506.cms https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/thanks-to-pm-modi-.... [1] Although India loves socialism, it's like cricket and biscuits--stuff we inherited from white people.