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Ex-Trump Aide Says Trump’s Use of ‘Riggers’ Isn’t a Racial ‘Dogwhistle – It’s a Bullhorn’
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I mean... It's one letter off.
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Can we refer to Trump as "that rigger guy" from bow on?
I just don't know why he doesn't just come out and say it. Who does he think he's fooling?
He wouldn't lose a single supporter. Probably gain a ton.
We are very lucky they’re so fucking stupid
you leave Tigger alone!!
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Eh ... I'm not convinced.
We have an inexhaustible supply of real and unambiguous crimes and other offenses that we can pin on him.
I think it unnecessarily muddies the water to even bother with something this ambiguous.
The guy is on trial for RICO charges, and in all likelihood will see seeing a 5-year prison sentence for ORGANIZED CRIME in trying to overthrow a lawful election.
Let's just keep talking about that. And these fact that we have it on tape that he was asking the Georgia Secretary of State to "find" exactly the number of votes Trump needed to overturn the election he lost.
Yeahbi agree. trump is racist AF, we don't need to strain and stretch to make him racist even in the event that he isn't being 100% racist.
I hate when people talk like this
The fact that he’s introducing race into this prosecution surprises me, it’s disgusting, it’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise.
So surprise or no?
Ya no for sure
It's a definite maybe, that's for sure
I’m not sure Trump is bright enough to use a dog whistle. He’s more of a shoot them in the middle of 5th avenue guy.
Rigga, please.
He’s obviously racist AF, but I doubt this is a dog whistle. Guy is too fucking stupid and impulsive to attribute some kind of intent to his word vomit.
He's stupid in a lot of ways, but he's popular as a speaker for a reason, and he has done a lot of dog whistling in his life. This is just the most blatant. I do think it is intentional.
He's popular as a speaker because he "tells it like it is", which roughly translates to "he says the quiet racist parts out loud". I agree that this probably isn't a dog whistle. Or, it probably wasn't. It definitely is now, and I fully anticipate seeing someone wearing a shirt that colorfully uses the word "rigger".
"Telling it like it is" is basically= your racist uncles tirades and memes on Facebook.
I knew that asshole was gonna win when he started speaking like a Sentient Facebook Feed.
This is where I’m at. He makes up stupid fucking words all the time. But those that follow him will absolutely run with it to “own the libs.” I’m not even sure they would’ve picked up on it if it were a dog whistle. Maybe in the context of the rest of the trial it reads that way, but I haven’t been following the shit coming out of his mouth. But strictly because there’s been a big deal made of it, it’s now ripe for those dimwits utilizing it “as a joke,” and then it’ll just turn into another in a long list of things that IS a dog whistle with some modicum of deniability
he’s popular as a speaker for a reason
I think he has a natural talent to listen to what gets a rise out of people, what gets a reaction, and then copy that in his own way. What he says, once transcribed to written form, is often not very intelligent. It's his mannerism and even his unique makeup and hair - that people listen to far more than his actual meaning. I find people who think Trump is a great person often have serious difficulty interpreting and understanding hard sciences like chemistry and physics... and are influenced by advertising techniques in particular ways.
You overestimate them. Simple-minded folks have serious difficulty reasonning about any concept that require you to either :
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Think of an abstract concept.
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Hold and evaluate a thought they don't agree with
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Any sort of application of logic and critical thinking requiring you to evaluate more than 1 or 2 elements in serie.
Their mind reset after making 1 "logical" deduction. Leaving them unable to evaluate both premises and arguments, or abstract concepts, or hold contradicting thoughts for evaluation, or any sort of concrete mental modeling of anything but the simplest cause to effect.
In that sense, the dumbest amongst us are not just incapable to do sciences, they can barely comprehend the very simple things surrounding them. They survive by gut-feeling, learned patterns, groupthink, and are driven by emotions (since it is all they have).
I think he lacks the mental faculties to do something like this. He’s a simpleton.
Pretty sure a 3rd grader could figure out that "riggers" sounds a whole lot like a really naughty word for black people, which is about where he's at mentally.
It's exactly what a 3rd grader would do...
Say a word that sounds real close to a word they can't say. Then when called out say that it's not the same word and no one can be mad they said it.
So yeah, probably intentional
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He’s definitely deficient as a human but never mistake the fool act for actually being a fool. More than anyone else in contemporary American society, Trump truly understands how to play to the lowest common denominator of his base
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Must just be a big coincidence his supporters started posting this kinda shit afterwards. 'Dindo Riggers' could mean anything!
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I live in a very protected part of the world. I once thought the N word was "No", and that was why people hated it so much.
He is racist, but not clever in any way, I think he meant a made up word in his bullshit accusation, I don't think he was trying to be racist here.
Yall know rigger is a real word right? Like, I work with a group of people explicitly called riggers. They rig stuff up. Use cranes, chain falls, shit like that?
Trump is using a dogwhistle though.
Yeah it’s also a common term in the bdsm community for people who like tying people up. But he definitely isn’t referring to them.
Some people don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to dog whistles.
Fair point, but I guess I meant, it's a word that doesn't have a definition attached to it that has anything to do with how he used it.
Someone else said it and he repeated it, or someone else wrote the tweet. It was absolutely intended to be racist.
It is probably something he heard somewhere and he liked how close it sounds.
A Taxonomy of Right-Wing Dog Whistles -The Atlantic
They accuse one side of “They want to take your pickup truck. They want to rebuild your home. They want to take away your hamburgers.” - while on the other side, they themselves want to take nothing serious, just your freedom and democracy,
Or your kids. Or your medicine
Ya know, the first time I read that I thought an aide must have swapped his N and R keys. But I was just making a little joke about it.
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