For Some Reason, This Makes Me Think of Any Headline Containing Both the Words “Trump” and “Racist”

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[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]

If you find yourself reading the other person’s mind. As in, thinking “I love American” means “white America” realize you’re not psychic. Those thoughts in your head? they’re yours. Examine why you want to believe this, and what purpose it’s serving FOR YOU. Because your mind is the only one you can read.

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    • If you hear your president say (Aug 13, 2017):

      You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. . . . You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of ― to them ― a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

      ” . . . and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.”

      . . . and pretend that that is supporting white supremacists:
      –You might be a Red. Next.

      .

      If you hear your president say:

      you. It’s true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people”

      . . . and act as if you think he was slurring all Mexicans — for three years:
      — You might be a Red. Next.

      .

      If you follow media who write:

      b>Is Melania Trump Sending Us a Message Through Her Creepy Christmas Trees?
      The Guardian | 28 Nov 2018 | Zoe Williams

      First there was the ‘I really don’t care’ jacket. Now there are her sinister decorations. What is she trying to convey?

      There is something exquisite about Melania Trump, and I am not talking about her appearance or what she (probably) smells like. She doesn’t defy interpretation so much as beguile it; you want to strip away the layers, but you know you do so at your peril; the layers might be all there is. Mystery piles on mystery: who owns a jacket sporting the words “I really don’t care”, like the one she wore to a detention centre for child migrants?

      What binds her to her husband, a man whose proximity seems to affect her viscerally, and not in a good way? Can she really freeze human organs using only a look?

      This week, all eyes were on her Christmas trees: why were they red? Why were there so many of them? How can something made out of berries look so creepy? Was opulence the problem? First ladies traditionally play down their wealth, whether for Democrat reasons (the ugliness of inequality) or Republican ones (ostentatious display, while not immoral, is at odds with being relied on to make your own biscuits). But this is an altogether different first family: they occupy high office; they run their own clothing company; they have email accounts on multiple servers; no one expects pretend humility and down-to-earthness, the standards of the old school. And Melania wouldn’t get out of bed to defy a convention that was already dead, let alone deck her hallways blood red for it.

      Possibly, as has been suggested already, she is trying to separate us from nature, with trees the colour no tree has ever been lined up in a harsh, firing-squad formation.

      — You might just be red-flagged.

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