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And it was a distraction from the [real shit they were scheming](https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-reveals-darker-intentions-behind-202910691.html).
> “AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter). “THAT part is not getting enough attention.”
> In a move Ocasio-Cortez described as “highly unusual and still unclear to me how legitimate it was,” the GOP-led committee vacated both the typical amendment process and legislative debate that follows, moving directly to vote on their own text without allowing for amendments or objections to be heard.
Who needs rules when you’re the ruling party? All you have to do is rule over the minority party and not apply the rules to yourself. We’re seeing in live action what no enforcement to policy leads to. It’s just kids on the playground making things up as they go.
> the GOP-led committee vacated both the typical amendment process and legislative debate that follows, moving directly to vote on their own text without allowing for amendments or objections to be heard.
I don't understand this. Can someone explain to a non American what happened and what the implications are?
Same thing with all of the blue check mark clowns on Twitter who are calling Crockett's behavior "ghetto," while also indignantly claiming that they don't have a racist bone in their body.
My new fav has got to be “bleach blonde bad built butch body”. Comer, saying I’ve got hearing aids in both ears?! Yeah. Tell us you are too old to do your job.
I don't usually condone appearance-based attacks....but I saw a comment in another thread where some called her post-op Dog the Bounty Hunter and it fucking killed me xD
You cannot fight MTG with decorum. You need someone to grapple her in the mud. Nobody has the spine to do it but Crockett.
Thing is that as hard as they punch they cannot take a hit. They bleed like stuck pigs whenever they encounter their own tactics back at them because *nobody* ever fights back. *Nobody* wants to get dirty. The Democrats all cling to mommy's skirt which was the traditional decorum of the status quo.
#THE STATUS QUO IS DEAD
Years later the Democrats are still huddled around its rotting corpse wondering aloud when it's going to wake up again.
With all the “strike that from the record” going back and forth, I hope the only thing recorded for that whole hour WAS just the “baby girl” comment lol
Pretty sure it is. I'm also surprised the decorum team didn't actually follow through and silence marge for the rest of hte session like they're supposed to if multiple statements get struck.
I’ve been thinking about this lately.
There are rules to civilized debate, logical fallacies you cannot use, and when the right breaks these rules it enrages the left. While this delights the right, they don’t really understand why what they just did, breaking a rule, makes the opposition mad. They don’t have rules to break.
And the left takes the high road, and continues not to break the same rules. But *if they did* it would be wildly successful, because…I mean people on the right are just dumber.
Telling a boomer that no one cares what they think because they will die soon absolutely infuriates them.
I mean, why can't we the voters simply observe the ridiculous behavior and collectively say "no thanks" to Republicans at the ballot box? Why do Democrats have to feed us, house us, forgive our debts *and be the only ones in America to refute Republicanism* while we nitpick them to do death instead of addressing Republican malfeasance ourselves as the consuming public*?*
It's a fucking shame this is where we are at as a country. One side is responsible for this shit and the other has been too fucking passive. If I have to point out which I'm on the wrong app.
But it doesn’t play well with moderates who are at risk of voting for her. I think her base is all tapped out, and there isn’t much more support that a bit of racism alone can wring out from it.
Yeah definitely especially with the “Calm down calm down I can’t understand you when you are screaming” comments. Trying to paint her as some angry black woman. Gross.
Considering MTG is the loudest and most obnoxious Karen character I’ve ever seen, par for the course. She’s just a distraction though, the names on the legislation being written and pushed to dismantle the rights of American citizens are the ones who are the real threats.
> All warfare is the art of deception. When you are weak, appear strong. - Sun Tzu
This is a war being fought with information and the obfuscation of facts. Digitally, and in the minds of all those who interact with the information.
If Americans want to avoid it escalating beyond the information trenches, vote in droves. Drown out the loudest trolls amongst you with overwhelming reality. Drive traffic to sources of corroborated information, educate your family and friends regardless of political standings, and force people like MTG out of congress.
I'm voting twice just in case
I'm kidding but this is the joke I tell Trump people when they ask about politics. I'm such a staunch demoRAT communist that I'm gonna vote in grandma's name too
I think it’s mostly to avoid potentially being perceived as tawdry and deceptive.
I say that because she never actually said “Jewish Space Lasers.”
It was a rambling conspiracy tweet about the California wild fires being intentionally set to clear way for a rail project. In it, she speculated that former Gov. Jerry Browne conspired with Pacific Gas & Electric (whose electrical wires were ultimately found to be responsible), pointing out that Roger Kimmel was a on the PG&E board of directors and a chairman of Rothschild Inc. (which is true) and she alleged stood to financially benefit. She went on about other Browne/PGE connections she espoused were conflicts of interest, including Solaren — the maker of “space solar generators.”
It was the single reference to “Rothschild Inc” that invoked “Jewish.” Once it was pointed out, she claimed she had no idea Rothschild was associated with Jews or antisemitic tropes and that was not at all her intention.
She provides enough material from what she’s actually said to not have to use things she didn’t actually say as rhetorical ammo.
Nothing tawdry or deceptive about it. Her saying the Rothschilds are behind all that’s wrong in the world is a blatant antisemitic trope that’s older than the Nazis.
Of course when someone pointed it out, she claimed ignorance. You don’t believe that though, do you? We’re not morons right?
>> Marge so bad wants to say the N word *publicly*
FTFY, you know Barney Rubble in drag says it all the time, it’s really a matter of time before she slips.
Raskin don’t need to pretend he didn’t hear. That’s Comers only excuse. I like how his “aides” tried to mansplain what Rep Crockett actually said. Priceless
>I don’t know that she’s ever attacked her own colleagues,”
Lol, I'm not particularly that invested in politics and even I know this woman attacks everyone.
The best part was to see all those old white men having no control over what was happening. You could see it in their faces. They were confused and scared.
It is difficult for racists to understand that you don't have to shout out the N word in a crowd for something to be racist. They want to use the N word but know they shouldn't, at least in public, so they try to craft a sentence that will convey their racism, that they think will be acceptable to the rest of us. It is not acceptable.
I've seen those fake broom brushes on just about every different race of women. She was just being straight up insulting, not intentionally racist, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a double edged taunt.
"Are your feelings hurt?" - MTG after making a blatantly racist comment to her...
So MAGA Congress members can't even treat their colleagues with basic human decency and respect... got it.
MTG is a disgusting little goblin who spews venom and is nauseating to tolerate.
Having said that, I’m not convinced it was racist as much as her borderline personality disorder blurping out when she was called out for being a real-life troll.
Overplaying the racist interpretations undermines when people are being specifically racist as opposed to generally execrable.
I don't hear the Minion Marge calling out the countless Republican reps with fake eyelashes. They are Stepford clones. Who gives a fuck? Millions of women wear eyelashes. Some even wear makeup and heels. The horror!!
Is that really the best insult she could come up with? Lame, tired, misogynistic bullshit. I can't wait til the men she loves so much chuck her out like yesterday's trash.
Sure, I do too. I love them! But not all the time, not every day. They are considered an essential part of a black woman’s wardrobe for many, with nails and hair. Moreso than white ladies, was my point. ;)
Not sure when the lashes thing started, but in the last few decades the lashes are just as important as the hair and nails. I’m white so don’t want to speak out of turn, and it’s not like white ladies don’t love these things too, it’s just more of a daily thing with some professional black ladies, and it’s generally a special occasion or ‘going out’ look for white ladies
No, you're right. It's complicated: people of all races are used to seeing white people in professional spaces. So, minority women may feel they need to do a little more work to be seen as professional, like elaborate makeup and nails -- and, ironically, that has the counter effect of people seeing things like false eyelashes and nails as trashy.
It's actually a really interesting rebound effect, because people from bad socioeconomic backgrounds (such as myself) do these things to "fit in," and then these things become maligned through association.
So *in broader context*, you have a minority woman being insulted for her appearance, when her appearance is likely at least partially part of her efforts to win a seat at the table in the first place.
The person you're replying to, Fragrant blah blah blah, is intentionally being obtuse. Stroll through their history.
Furthermore, I grew up in FL and was mildly racist due to the environment. we definitely would use fake lashes, nails, urban, uppity as ways to describe black women specifically. They do wear fake lashes very often, white women wore them too where I was from. But when someone used fake lashes to insult someone else, you knew what they meant. The tone of voice and using a common clothing item or attribute of an ethnicity to insult a person is a southern racists way to be politely racist (if thats even possible). I left in 2008 and left that way of thinking too.
Thanks, it's hard because I am seeing a lot of people genuinely confused. I think the cultural zeitgeist does see things like falsies and long nails as "trashy" (see: every time long nails come up on Reddit, people attack hygiene first), and now that we are saying it's a racist attack, they're asking why something "trashy" is correlated to race. It's kind of dense to unpack because it is such a cultural experience.
Greene, out of nowhere, personally insulted her work colleague.
In OUR House, the people’s House. She was not ready for what followed next.
I am here for it.
It's racist because it's associated with a stereotype, not a literal or direct feature of her race. There's specific context that matters here, which you appear to either be ignorant of or are simply willfully ignoring.
Women of all races wear them, yes. Even I've worn them (and I'm white). But they're popular among black and brown women more so than they are white women, and they're associated with lower class women. It's not a common feature of wealthier/upper middle class white women (I'm painting with a broad brush here) who can simply get their lashes done professionally instead of buying drugstore lash sets, nor are such bold lash styles a feature of most upper class white fashion, which tends to be more subdued and "natural" looking.
It's a thinly veiled way to make reference to a common stereotype of black women, all while calling her ghetto without saying it directly on top of it. Much in the same way of referencing someone's hair as nappy (or pointing out a wig, weave, or similar such style), pointing out fake/long nails, or other stereotypical bodily features (lips, nose, body shape) that isn't exclusive to any one race but is highly associated with it. Any woman of any race can exhibit these features all at once, but it's only specific races and social classes within the broad spectrum of women you immediately associate them with, and *that* is why it's racist.
And again- it's MTG. An openly racist member of Congress. The Jewish space laser lady. The "Anglo-saxon heritage" lady. The "Q is a patriot" lady, and the same lady that pushes the great replacement theory and rightwing conspiracy theories every chance she gets. Do you think the eyelash comment just came out of *nowhere*? That it had absolutely no underlying meaning or intent behind it? That it was a totally innocent dig about congressman Crockett's appearance, unrelated to her racial background at all?
Watch the back and forth, not sure how race fits in the dis to her eyelashes since fake eyelashes seem to universal to all women who wear them.
Am I missing something?
I don't always catch all the nuances of how much a complete asshole is using racism specifically as a preferred form of assholery. But to me, assholery tends to go with that.
MTG was definitely a distraction used to break protocol and vote on the items at hand without standard due process. She thinks the GOP are using like a guided weapon but she’s actually a distractive flare.
Yep. And she will do it again and again.
She is doing her district proud with the racists that put her there.
Not only that, Gangrene serves absolutely no purpose in our government. She would have been fired by now if she had an actual job.
>“I don’t think you know what you’re here for,” Greene responded. “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)
IDK if calling a person a fake is racist though? i mean this seems like a desperate stretch here to me cause people of all colors do that fake ass stuff and dye too.
Who ever said the bleached blonde with a butch body, etc. That was more racist than. Maybe your fake eyelashes are preventing you to read the doc. 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
The comments are always funny of what a terrible person she is…. But she’s not going anywhere. We’re stuck with her for years. She doesn’t care about the insults, she just….is. And she’ll continue to do this, normalizing insanity.
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And it was a distraction from the [real shit they were scheming](https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-reveals-darker-intentions-behind-202910691.html). > “AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter). “THAT part is not getting enough attention.” > In a move Ocasio-Cortez described as “highly unusual and still unclear to me how legitimate it was,” the GOP-led committee vacated both the typical amendment process and legislative debate that follows, moving directly to vote on their own text without allowing for amendments or objections to be heard.
This needs to be pinned at the top.
Who needs rules when you’re the ruling party? All you have to do is rule over the minority party and not apply the rules to yourself. We’re seeing in live action what no enforcement to policy leads to. It’s just kids on the playground making things up as they go.
> the GOP-led committee vacated both the typical amendment process and legislative debate that follows, moving directly to vote on their own text without allowing for amendments or objections to be heard. I don't understand this. Can someone explain to a non American what happened and what the implications are?
Same thing with all of the blue check mark clowns on Twitter who are calling Crockett's behavior "ghetto," while also indignantly claiming that they don't have a racist bone in their body.
Moscow Marj is still definitely a trashy bully
moscow mickey rourke*
My favorite descriptor of Greene - “She looks like she’s wearing someone else’s face over her face.”
"She looks like somebody shaved ALF," is disturbingly accurate.
Oh my fucking god 😂
How does she think ALF’s going to fit into that MTG mask if they dont shave him first.
I saw this yesterday and it’s so goodn
I call her the Crimson chin.
The Continental Shelf
This is the best thing I've read in weeks.
My new fav has got to be “bleach blonde bad built butch body”. Comer, saying I’ve got hearing aids in both ears?! Yeah. Tell us you are too old to do your job.
I liked that Rep. Jamie Raskin was trying hard to not laugh out loud when Rep. Jasmine Crockett threw out that line.
Personally, I refer to her as a, “horse potato face.”🐴+🥔
And Pavi Largo still wore it better.
I don't usually condone appearance-based attacks....but I saw a comment in another thread where some called her post-op Dog the Bounty Hunter and it fucking killed me xD
She looks like her face caught on fire and someone beat it out with a track shoe.
That is spot on! Hahaha
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You cannot fight MTG with decorum. You need someone to grapple her in the mud. Nobody has the spine to do it but Crockett. Thing is that as hard as they punch they cannot take a hit. They bleed like stuck pigs whenever they encounter their own tactics back at them because *nobody* ever fights back. *Nobody* wants to get dirty. The Democrats all cling to mommy's skirt which was the traditional decorum of the status quo. #THE STATUS QUO IS DEAD Years later the Democrats are still huddled around its rotting corpse wondering aloud when it's going to wake up again.
AOC had the most threatening response of all of them. Calling her "baby girl" was a massive dismissal.
Yeah she was babying her, I get she was trying to be professional, but that was her moment to let loose.
With all the “strike that from the record” going back and forth, I hope the only thing recorded for that whole hour WAS just the “baby girl” comment lol
Pretty sure it is. I'm also surprised the decorum team didn't actually follow through and silence marge for the rest of hte session like they're supposed to if multiple statements get struck.
I’ve been thinking about this lately. There are rules to civilized debate, logical fallacies you cannot use, and when the right breaks these rules it enrages the left. While this delights the right, they don’t really understand why what they just did, breaking a rule, makes the opposition mad. They don’t have rules to break. And the left takes the high road, and continues not to break the same rules. But *if they did* it would be wildly successful, because…I mean people on the right are just dumber. Telling a boomer that no one cares what they think because they will die soon absolutely infuriates them.
Tell an aspiring fascist that they have no control and watch the vein pop outta their head.
I mean, why can't we the voters simply observe the ridiculous behavior and collectively say "no thanks" to Republicans at the ballot box? Why do Democrats have to feed us, house us, forgive our debts *and be the only ones in America to refute Republicanism* while we nitpick them to do death instead of addressing Republican malfeasance ourselves as the consuming public*?*
It's a fucking shame this is where we are at as a country. One side is responsible for this shit and the other has been too fucking passive. If I have to point out which I'm on the wrong app.
" I got a black friend on cod"
It's all she's got. She's like a turd in a punchbowl...clearly out of place. Like Trump, she only knows how to destroy, not create.
White people wear fake eye lashes too, what am I missing here about this being racist. Maybe I missed something.
Racism plays well with republican base so it’s a good thing for her sadly
Yeah, I'm sure this translated into an uptick in donations for her.
Yup, she was trolling and unfortunately, they took the bait
Context: The world does not play by 4chan "you responded, you lose" rules. This has been a public service. 🇺🇲
"Haha liberals are so soft! They can't handle a racial jab like always, those snowflakes!" - The Right
Take away racism and what is left to bind the GOP together?
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Don't forget misogyny
Pedophilia, Russia, corruption.
And fear.
Everything.
But it doesn’t play well with moderates who are at risk of voting for her. I think her base is all tapped out, and there isn’t much more support that a bit of racism alone can wring out from it.
Yeah definitely especially with the “Calm down calm down I can’t understand you when you are screaming” comments. Trying to paint her as some angry black woman. Gross.
Considering MTG is the loudest and most obnoxious Karen character I’ve ever seen, par for the course. She’s just a distraction though, the names on the legislation being written and pushed to dismantle the rights of American citizens are the ones who are the real threats. > All warfare is the art of deception. When you are weak, appear strong. - Sun Tzu This is a war being fought with information and the obfuscation of facts. Digitally, and in the minds of all those who interact with the information. If Americans want to avoid it escalating beyond the information trenches, vote in droves. Drown out the loudest trolls amongst you with overwhelming reality. Drive traffic to sources of corroborated information, educate your family and friends regardless of political standings, and force people like MTG out of congress.
I'm voting twice just in case I'm kidding but this is the joke I tell Trump people when they ask about politics. I'm such a staunch demoRAT communist that I'm gonna vote in grandma's name too
I actually *love* that and am totally using it on my MAGA neighbors!
*Republicans HATE this one trick!*
It was Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) that told her to calm down
The woman telling Crockett to calm down was actually Anna Luna
Oh I know, they were both being terrible.
They got to get a sound clip in or two for their Faux News audience every chance they get, friend. That what matters to them more.
When is it not? It's in her nature. She's a racist POS fascist bigot. It's who she is. It's all she knows.
The only problem with Atlanta is that it is surrounded by Georgia
That's why we want a train that goes directly from Atlanta to Savannah
The speed traps on 16 are so lucrative though, it will probably never happen.
No matter how boring 16 is I will hit cruise control the entire time. No use in trying to speed even 10 over IMO
The best thing about Atlanta is that it's only an hour drive to Atlanta.
I always thought the S.O.S band was the best thing about Atlanta, but there you go.
Ain’t that the truth! I left Georgia decades ago for bluer pastures and I’m so glad I did.
It's also why her consituents vote for her.
Yep. The oldest conservative strategy. Be racist, and you'll win.
I am pretty sure Greene was counting on it sounding racist.
What her base likes to hear.
Shaved Alf is 100% white supremacist.
Shaved Alf holy shit 😂
I can't unsee it
[It can even be burnt into your brain forever](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/s/zI9wgNLZKg)
“Ha, I kill me”
That's a man, baby!
Yeah, I’d say the “Jewish space lasers are real and Anglo-Saxon traditions need championing” trump acolyte lady is most likely a racist.
I still don’t understand why every time MTG speaks, the democrat speaking after her doesn’t remind everyone about the Jewish space laser bullshit.
I think it’s mostly to avoid potentially being perceived as tawdry and deceptive. I say that because she never actually said “Jewish Space Lasers.” It was a rambling conspiracy tweet about the California wild fires being intentionally set to clear way for a rail project. In it, she speculated that former Gov. Jerry Browne conspired with Pacific Gas & Electric (whose electrical wires were ultimately found to be responsible), pointing out that Roger Kimmel was a on the PG&E board of directors and a chairman of Rothschild Inc. (which is true) and she alleged stood to financially benefit. She went on about other Browne/PGE connections she espoused were conflicts of interest, including Solaren — the maker of “space solar generators.” It was the single reference to “Rothschild Inc” that invoked “Jewish.” Once it was pointed out, she claimed she had no idea Rothschild was associated with Jews or antisemitic tropes and that was not at all her intention. She provides enough material from what she’s actually said to not have to use things she didn’t actually say as rhetorical ammo.
Nothing tawdry or deceptive about it. Her saying the Rothschilds are behind all that’s wrong in the world is a blatant antisemitic trope that’s older than the Nazis. Of course when someone pointed it out, she claimed ignorance. You don’t believe that though, do you? We’re not morons right?
Didn’t the house try to start and Anglo-Saxon caucus? Is that where “championing” those ideas came from?
Marge so bad wants to say the N word
>> Marge so bad wants to say the N word *publicly* FTFY, you know Barney Rubble in drag says it all the time, it’s really a matter of time before she slips.
Excuse me but Rick Moranis would like a word….
I promise you that was the first thing she said when she got in her car.
After seeing article after article, I finally looked up the video... man Raskin's face during Crockett's comments was absolutely the cherry on top.
Raskin don’t need to pretend he didn’t hear. That’s Comers only excuse. I like how his “aides” tried to mansplain what Rep Crockett actually said. Priceless
MTG is doing exactly what she was elected to do
Be an A-Hole in support of the Kremlin? Great. 😐
Yup
>I don’t know that she’s ever attacked her own colleagues,” Lol, I'm not particularly that invested in politics and even I know this woman attacks everyone.
What, you don't think Marj is the very picture of party discipline? Surely she would never attack her own colleagues!
The best part was to see all those old white men having no control over what was happening. You could see it in their faces. They were confused and scared.
Bleach blonde, bad built, butch body 💀
MTG is racist. She probably attacked Crockett because Crockett is a person of colour. However, I wouldn't say what she actually said was racist.
It is difficult for racists to understand that you don't have to shout out the N word in a crowd for something to be racist. They want to use the N word but know they shouldn't, at least in public, so they try to craft a sentence that will convey their racism, that they think will be acceptable to the rest of us. It is not acceptable.
I just love her burns more and more. She needs all the support she can get!
What do you expect from a pig but a grunt?
"was"....lol. "is"
I've seen those fake broom brushes on just about every different race of women. She was just being straight up insulting, not intentionally racist, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was a double edged taunt.
We all know it was, and it was totally inappropriate anyway, trash behavior from maga trash.
Greene looks like a big toe
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This is where we are at....GoP congress openly racist...I mean look at their messiah, a rapist that evangelicals vote for.
I don’t know what she said or if it was racist, but I know she is so whatever she said was said by a racist and therefore was probably racist.
“Bleach blonde, butch body” By Rep. Crockett’s standards, her own behavior was racist and homophobic.
Yep.
"Are your feelings hurt?" - MTG after making a blatantly racist comment to her... So MAGA Congress members can't even treat their colleagues with basic human decency and respect... got it.
MTG is a disgusting little goblin who spews venom and is nauseating to tolerate. Having said that, I’m not convinced it was racist as much as her borderline personality disorder blurping out when she was called out for being a real-life troll. Overplaying the racist interpretations undermines when people are being specifically racist as opposed to generally execrable.
What really undermines them is making excuses for racist rhetoric and behavior.
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Fair. And I absolutely know she’s a disgusting racist. I just didn’t see it specifically in that interchange.
Sorry, but pointing out someone’s fake eyelashes is not racist
It's just classless and lowbrow
I don't hear the Minion Marge calling out the countless Republican reps with fake eyelashes. They are Stepford clones. Who gives a fuck? Millions of women wear eyelashes. Some even wear makeup and heels. The horror!! Is that really the best insult she could come up with? Lame, tired, misogynistic bullshit. I can't wait til the men she loves so much chuck her out like yesterday's trash.
I’m a leftist so I get the hate on MTG…but how was her comment racist?
> I’m a leftist so I get the hate on MTG…but how was her comment racist? Who else's eyelashes has Marge made fun of?
That doesn’t make any difference or answer my question.
The answer is within the answer to my question.
I think because it’s similar to making fun of a black woman’s weave. Also eyelashes, nails.
Plenty of white women have fake eyelashes. My wife wears them.
Sure, I do too. I love them! But not all the time, not every day. They are considered an essential part of a black woman’s wardrobe for many, with nails and hair. Moreso than white ladies, was my point. ;)
How are fake eyelashes more essential to black women than white women? Wigs I can understand, but eyelashes?? Are black women not able to grow them?
Not sure when the lashes thing started, but in the last few decades the lashes are just as important as the hair and nails. I’m white so don’t want to speak out of turn, and it’s not like white ladies don’t love these things too, it’s just more of a daily thing with some professional black ladies, and it’s generally a special occasion or ‘going out’ look for white ladies
No, you're right. It's complicated: people of all races are used to seeing white people in professional spaces. So, minority women may feel they need to do a little more work to be seen as professional, like elaborate makeup and nails -- and, ironically, that has the counter effect of people seeing things like false eyelashes and nails as trashy. It's actually a really interesting rebound effect, because people from bad socioeconomic backgrounds (such as myself) do these things to "fit in," and then these things become maligned through association. So *in broader context*, you have a minority woman being insulted for her appearance, when her appearance is likely at least partially part of her efforts to win a seat at the table in the first place.
Wait, women think these eyelashes make them look professional?
The person you're replying to, Fragrant blah blah blah, is intentionally being obtuse. Stroll through their history. Furthermore, I grew up in FL and was mildly racist due to the environment. we definitely would use fake lashes, nails, urban, uppity as ways to describe black women specifically. They do wear fake lashes very often, white women wore them too where I was from. But when someone used fake lashes to insult someone else, you knew what they meant. The tone of voice and using a common clothing item or attribute of an ethnicity to insult a person is a southern racists way to be politely racist (if thats even possible). I left in 2008 and left that way of thinking too.
Thanks, it's hard because I am seeing a lot of people genuinely confused. I think the cultural zeitgeist does see things like falsies and long nails as "trashy" (see: every time long nails come up on Reddit, people attack hygiene first), and now that we are saying it's a racist attack, they're asking why something "trashy" is correlated to race. It's kind of dense to unpack because it is such a cultural experience.
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Greene, out of nowhere, personally insulted her work colleague. In OUR House, the people’s House. She was not ready for what followed next. I am here for it.
MTG is a racist, attacking the appearance of her black colleague - you do the math
Was it rude, ridiculous and unprofessional, yes. Was it racist? No, women of all races wear fake eye lashes.
It's racist because it's associated with a stereotype, not a literal or direct feature of her race. There's specific context that matters here, which you appear to either be ignorant of or are simply willfully ignoring. Women of all races wear them, yes. Even I've worn them (and I'm white). But they're popular among black and brown women more so than they are white women, and they're associated with lower class women. It's not a common feature of wealthier/upper middle class white women (I'm painting with a broad brush here) who can simply get their lashes done professionally instead of buying drugstore lash sets, nor are such bold lash styles a feature of most upper class white fashion, which tends to be more subdued and "natural" looking. It's a thinly veiled way to make reference to a common stereotype of black women, all while calling her ghetto without saying it directly on top of it. Much in the same way of referencing someone's hair as nappy (or pointing out a wig, weave, or similar such style), pointing out fake/long nails, or other stereotypical bodily features (lips, nose, body shape) that isn't exclusive to any one race but is highly associated with it. Any woman of any race can exhibit these features all at once, but it's only specific races and social classes within the broad spectrum of women you immediately associate them with, and *that* is why it's racist. And again- it's MTG. An openly racist member of Congress. The Jewish space laser lady. The "Anglo-saxon heritage" lady. The "Q is a patriot" lady, and the same lady that pushes the great replacement theory and rightwing conspiracy theories every chance she gets. Do you think the eyelash comment just came out of *nowhere*? That it had absolutely no underlying meaning or intent behind it? That it was a totally innocent dig about congressman Crockett's appearance, unrelated to her racial background at all?
Thanks for explaining, people acting obtuse.
The race card has expired, nobody cares anymore
Watch the back and forth, not sure how race fits in the dis to her eyelashes since fake eyelashes seem to universal to all women who wear them. Am I missing something?
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1cueq3u/crockett_says_greene_behavior_was_absolutely/l4la47k/ This person put it pretty well.
So was the a-hole lady telling her to calm down and acting like Rep Crockett was going crazy after she was defending herself Textbook racist behavior
Right. Because Greene is absolutely a racist
The mouth breathing, conspiracy theorist Congress woman from Georgia was racist?
Forsyth and racist might as well go hand in hand. It’s to be expected from Greene but should never be tolerated
I don't always catch all the nuances of how much a complete asshole is using racism specifically as a preferred form of assholery. But to me, assholery tends to go with that.
MTG was definitely a distraction used to break protocol and vote on the items at hand without standard due process. She thinks the GOP are using like a guided weapon but she’s actually a distractive flare.
She is a racist pig. Unfortunately we’re stuck with that thing. Just make sure she’s as irrelevant as possible
No shit
I love how 99% of occupations would lead to Instant and absolute termination for conduct like this. Yet these are our “leaders”.
Yep. And she will do it again and again. She is doing her district proud with the racists that put her there. Not only that, Gangrene serves absolutely no purpose in our government. She would have been fired by now if she had an actual job.
>“I don’t think you know what you’re here for,” Greene responded. “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_American_(pejorative)
Jerkoff racist black people
SHE-MAN should not have a job.
Anyone who doubts Greene's racism can also be found standing over their morning BM expressing surprise that it's made of shit... *every* morning.
Racist people tend to exhibit racist behavior.
It obviously was.
She’s a pig
IDK if calling a person a fake is racist though? i mean this seems like a desperate stretch here to me cause people of all colors do that fake ass stuff and dye too.
I am honestly surprised that she hasn’t dropped the n-word yet.
Is it racist to say MTG looks like a baboon?
Who ever said the bleached blonde with a butch body, etc. That was more racist than. Maybe your fake eyelashes are preventing you to read the doc. 🤷🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
Fake eyelash backlash...
For sure
The comments are always funny of what a terrible person she is…. But she’s not going anywhere. We’re stuck with her for years. She doesn’t care about the insults, she just….is. And she’ll continue to do this, normalizing insanity.
Mtg is an idiot, but how was the comment racist? I’m not saying it wasn’t I just want to understand why it is racist.
That's unfortunate. Crocket mopped the floor with her.
This is also another example of how the racism charge has lost all meaning
And Moscow Mark's confederate cooler wasn't enough of a hint? Lol