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Everything I Don’t Like Is Racist
Townhall.com ^ | July 21, 2019 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 07/21/2019 2:41:22 AM PDT by Kaslin

There is a new trend in politics that’s a hit with all the kids. It’s been around for a while, but was never really as popular as it is right now. So, in the interest of science, I’ve decided to hop on “The Squad” train and try thinking like a progressive member of Congress. How hard could it be?

I was driving to the grocery store the other day and the person in the left turn lane ahead of me did not turn when there was clearly enough room for him to go. I sat there, angry, and then I asked myself, “What would Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez do?” Then it all came together.

Whoever this consecration camp guard in front of me was, he was clearly a racist. I was driving, so I couldn’t tweet about my oppression; I had to settle for yelling, “C’mon, man, stop being RACIST!” out the window. This only seemed to confuse the guy. Then I it occurred to me that the person driving that gave the appearance of a balding middle-aged man might not identify as a man. The government, I thought, should require people to put their preferred pronouns on bumper stickers so no one mis-genders them while cursing them out.

Once inside the store, things did not improve.

I couldn’t help but notice a white woman buying avocados. Cultural appropriation much? I shot her the evil eye. It didn’t deter her from buying four, but I think my point was made.

Well, I thought my point was made. Later, I saw her with tortilla chips and salsa in her basket too. I hate crime, right there in the chip aisle. Did I mention she was white? She should stick to potato chips!

No one else seemed bothered, which made it all the more difficult to take. I felt like a stranger in my own Safeway. Then I channeled by inner-Ilhan Omar to solve the problem. No, I didn’t marry my brother (allegedly) or blame the Jews, I thought of her strength in being able to move that wonderful Utopia that is Somalia to the horrible, awful, no good, cesspool of the United States. The years of oppression as she was educated in a land that was seemingly founded to keep her down. Still, she rose. The racist state of Wisconsin that was so cruel it elected her to its state Senate. The country, so Islamophobic that it elected her to the United States House of Representatives. Her surviving those horrors, gave me the courage to endure.

But that courage was soon tested in the meat section.

While browsing through various cuts of beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc., I came across bags of sauerkraut. I’m part German, so you could imagine my horror over finding one of the foods of Germany, of “my people,” tossed indifferently among packages of meat. I nearly dropped to the floor, ready to go fetal and yearn for some Playdoh and a safe space.

It was then I remembered the words of Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts who, bravely, demanded conformity from people, especially people of color, when she said, “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice. We don’t need any more black faces that don’t want to be a black voice.” As a part German, I would be a part German voice. I was ready.

Of course, it was just sauerkraut, so there wasn’t anything to do about it. But I came away stronger. I came away ready to confront other affronts to my people, should they occur. I now feel prepared to deal with any corned beef or, God forbid, Haggis I may encounter. I will be a voice for those of us with no color, or the “clear,” as I identify.

Or at least I thought.

I was confused by an endcap display of mayonnaise (typical, am I right?) and suddenly discovered myself in a section of the store I generally avoid – the greeting card section. There were cards for every occasion, and worse, cards for genders…exactly two genders. How exclusive.

Then I remembered the example of Rashida Tlaib. How would she handle this injustice, I wondered? With the grace and dignity for which she is known – she would have cursed out everyone in the aisle and likely the cards themselves. How else would everyone else, and even the cards, learn how racist they were, even though this had nothing to do with race? Only a Nazi would ask such a question.

While I didn’t yell the prospect of it brought me back from the edge.

All of this racism was almost too much to handle. Thoughts of the Squad got me through. I owe them a debt I’ll never be able to repay, a reparation I’ll owe in perpetuity, if you will.

Then I realized this was a horrible way to go through a trip to the store, let alone life. I turned my brain back on, paid for my groceries, and thanked the Good Lord that I don’t live on the planet liberals have created in their minds. All we have to do now is work tirelessly to ensure left-wing guttersnipes like the Gang of Four are never in a position to make their fantasy our reality.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: alexocasiocortez; thesquad
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1 posted on 07/21/2019 2:41:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

When did Black people stop calling White people “Honky” and “Cracker,” and begin calling us “Racist?”


2 posted on 07/21/2019 2:47:00 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Kaslin

The left is obsessed with race.


3 posted on 07/21/2019 2:48:41 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: Kaslin

Calling “racist” is just mental shorthand for drowning out and stifling any thought different from the liberal mindset.


4 posted on 07/21/2019 2:55:51 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Whenever they became racists themselves


5 posted on 07/21/2019 3:26:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The word has no meaning anymore. Where is the sting?


6 posted on 07/21/2019 3:33:17 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

2008


7 posted on 07/21/2019 3:37:20 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve said for years “anybody who disagrees with me is Racist Nazi Hitler.....because only Racist Nazi Hitler could ever disagree with me or any of my pronouncements on various issues.”

Yes, mentally the Left never did progress beyond the playground.


8 posted on 07/21/2019 4:12:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Kaslin

The talking heads claim repeatedly that being labeled a ‘racist’ is the worst thing a person can be called. The reality is the term is used so loosely that it’s on par with calling someone cardboard or glassine. It’s primarily used by liberals as a shield when scampering to protect themselves from criticism. Call me a racist or call me a carrot, it’s all the same to me.


9 posted on 07/21/2019 4:27:49 AM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: Kaslin

Just realize this. These DemocRATS. Will do and say ANYTHING to get their way of POWER AND CONTROL OVER US. Especially if they that lie their rear-ends off to do it. Now you have what is known as the Squad. (Or as I call them, the Stupid Lying Ugly Tramp Squad). And they prove that they and the rest of the DemocRATS are nothing more that RACISTS THEMSELVES, AND THEY PROVE IT EACH AND EVERY TIME THAT THEY SPEW THEIR RACISM OUT OF THEIR LOUSY LYING STUPID MOUTHS!!!!! The DemocRATS are the problem, they must be either voted out of office to get rid of them. Or Arrested for their crimes against Us, the God-fearing, Law-abiding American People and our GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!!!


10 posted on 07/21/2019 4:33:10 AM PDT by RollingThunder (Liberals = Lackadaisical Idiotic Bitter Egregious Radical Aggressive Losers Society.)
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To: central_va

My standard retort to being called a racist:

I have been called worse than that, by better than the likes of you.


11 posted on 07/21/2019 4:40:02 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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I have been called worse than that, by better than the likes of you.

Excellent!

12 posted on 07/21/2019 5:01:24 AM PDT by Ace's Dad (Trump 2020!)
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To: Kaslin

I hate consecration camps and their guards.

The whole idea that one needs to make something holy and clean makes me shudder...


13 posted on 07/21/2019 5:05:15 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Kaslin

Ilhan Omar is from Minnesota not Wisconsin. Thou shalt not confuse the two.


14 posted on 07/21/2019 5:10:09 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: central_va

All epithets used by Leftists are devoid of any meaning beyond YOU DON’T THINK RIGHT AND SHOULD DIE!


15 posted on 07/21/2019 5:16:17 AM PDT by arthurus (oT..;H)
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To: FamiliarFace

They’re both of them cheesy.


16 posted on 07/21/2019 5:17:41 AM PDT by arthurus (oT..;Hsssss)
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To: Ouderkirk

“I have been called worse than that, by better than the likes of you.”

That is a winning strategy!


17 posted on 07/21/2019 5:18:22 AM PDT by Tomato lover (Faith can survive without freedom. But, freedom cannot survive without faith.)
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To: Ouderkirk

Yeah, I like NASCAR too! Dey be races!


18 posted on 07/21/2019 5:21:08 AM PDT by Home-of-the-lazy-dog ("Leftists will stand before you and cut off their own head just to prove that they'll do it!")
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To: Kaslin

bump


19 posted on 07/21/2019 5:25:14 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin

Caption from posted pic: “So, this is how I munch my brother’s butt.” ~ omar


20 posted on 07/21/2019 5:28:44 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly planning to murder you. Have a plan to prevent that.”)
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