<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">A couple of commenters on another site (Booman Tribune) have important insights:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><table border="0" class="gmail-comment" style="margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:20px;border-top:10px solid rgb(187,187,187);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,gerogia,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><div class="gmail-commenthead" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:8pt;margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:1px"><a id="gmail-5" class="gmail-commenttitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Re: You Can't Wrestle With Stupid </a>(<a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/comments/2017/11/28/151027/30/5?mode=alone;showrate=1#5" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(85,119,68)">4.00 / 4</a>)</div><div class="gmail-commentbody" style="padding:1px 1px 5px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:8pt;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(187,187,187)">This is already a win for Trump. Remember the context: Elizabeth Warren pointed out that Trump campaigned on helping the consumer, but now he's out to destroy the Consumer Finance Agency, basically because bankers don't like being regulated. SO, Trump is siding with bankers against the American consumer. That is not popular. <p>So, Trump flips everything by calling Warren "Pocohantas". Liberals and the media react with outrage that he's making another racist remark. But, now the debate is about race relations in America, not the fact that Trump is screwing the middle class by allowing banks to rip off consumers. Win for Trump. Elizabeth Warren made an important point and we cannot allow him to bury the lead on this. </p></div><span class="gmail-small" style="font-size:8pt"><i>by</i> <a class="gmail-light" href="http://www.boomantribune.com/user/uid:12943/diary" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(85,119,68);font-size:8pt">Cugel</a> <i>on</i> <a href="http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/11/28/151027/30#5" style="text-decoration-line:none;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(85,119,68)">Tue Nov 28th, 2017 at 04:44:35 PM EST</a> <br></span></td></tr></tbody></table>And, from RU Kidding:<dl style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,gerogia,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><dt></dt><dd></dd></dl></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,gerogia,arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px">...But I see a definite method to the madness. Sure, Trump doesn't give one flying f**k if he insults those Navajos, who Trump likely views as subhuman anyway. But his real goals are: a) control the narrative, which includes deflecting attention from the very REAL issue of screwing over consumers, while enriching the banks and the 1%, while b) sticking to Warren yet again, which both gives his BASE the jollies while annoying the Libtards.</p><p style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:verdana,gerogia,arial,sans-serif;font-size:10.6667px">But the main goal: control the narrative, deflect attention from the super damage he is doing DAILY, and get everyone riled up - for or against - over his racist nastiness. Trump doesn't really care if liberals hate him, nor does he care if he's perceived as a racist. He is getting his very bad agenda pushed through, all while the MSM and the proles are nattering away about what a racist jerk he is...</p></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 4:13 PM, lfalen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lfalen@turbonet.com" target="_blank">lfalen@turbonet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I do dot think it is a racial slur. I have about the same che<br>
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Subject: [Vision2020] “Pocahontas” Not a Racial Slur, Says Prominent White Expert (SATIRE)<br>
From: "Tom Hansen" <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>
Date: 11/28/17 20:12:36<br>
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"Pocahontas" Not a Racial Slur, Says Prominent White Expert<br>
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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)-Donald J. Trump's use of the name "Pocahontas" at a White House event honoring Navajo veterans was not a racial slur, a prominent white expert said on Monday.<br>
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"If some Native Americans were offended by the use of this term, I'm sorry that they're so wrong," the expert said. "As a white person, I think I'm in a better position to know about this stuff."<br>
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She also defended the decision to honor the Navajo veterans near a portrait of Andrew Jackson, who is widely reviled by Native Americans. "Before we held the ceremony, we consulted with a number of other white experts, and we all agreed that Andrew Jackson was great," she said.<br>
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At times, the white expert seemed exasperated at having to explain to Native Americans what was a racial slur and what was not. "Look, I can explain it to them, but it's real time-consuming, and I have a lot of other stuff to do," she said.<br>
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In closing, the Caucasian said that accusing Trump of intentionally offending the Navajos was absurd. "No one knows more about offending people than Donald Trump," she said.<br>
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