J.D. Vance brushed off Laura Loomer’s racist comments, despite being married to an Indian American woman.
J.D. Vance would apparently rather protect Donald Trump’s decision to pal around with self-described “proud Islamophobe” and 9/11 conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer than stand up for his own wife.
Trump has been seen with Loomer several times over the last couple of weeks, with the pair getting eyebrow-raisingly close (Trump’s hand has been spotted in the small of Loomer’s back) while Melania Trump has largely remained out of the limelight. Loomer attended a 9/11 memorial service with Trump and also accompanied him to the presidential debate.
In an interview Sunday with NBC News, Vance was asked directly about his and his wife Usha Vance’s opinions on some of Loomer’s overt racism, including her claim that Vice President Kamala Harris’s ascendency to the Oval Office would make the White House “smell like curry.” But Vance wouldn’t take a stand against the alt-right ally.
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“Do I agree with what Laura Loomer said about Kamala Harris? No, I don’t,” Vance continued. “I also don’t think that this is actually an issue of national import. Is Laura Loomer running for president? No. Kamala Harris is running for president, and whether you’re eating curry at your dinner table or fried chicken, things have gotten more expensive thanks to her policies.”
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He defends a racist by using a racist statement. And Republicans don’t even blink.
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Edit: i didn’t make it clear enough. This is parody combining the racist shit JD just said with the racist shit Trump said previously. In no way does this reflect my actual viewpoint.
This is wildly racist, and also full of shit. She went to a historically black university, joined a black sorority, and has always been open about her dual Black/Indian heritage.
Your racist talking points aren’t going to land here, fuckhead.
That was meant to be parody exaggerating the racist shit JD just said and combining it with the racist shit Trump said previously. I didn’t make that clear enough, clearly. This does not reflect my viewpoint whatsoever.
I think many of the people downvoting and/or reporting you (I did both) are aware that you’re joking. The problem is that your joke isn’t funny. It’s wildly offensive and racist.
I get what you’re saying, “I don’t actually believe the racist stuff I said,” but we’re concerned with the part of that thought that you’re glossing over: racist stuff you said. Probably should just delete your comment.
Just realize that comedy doesn’t give you carte blanche to shout racist stereotypes and move on.
Humor wasn’t the goal. Making apparent the racism of Vance and Trump’s words was. If repeating back the racism someone else used in order to deride them somehow applies that same racist stigma onto me, I would argue that your priorities are misplaced. If I had directly quoted them and cited the quotation would the reaction have been the same? Because it amounts to the same level of disconnect from the words to me. But whatever. Not a hill I care to die on. I’ll delete it. Didn’t mean to upset anyone.
Props. (For admitting, apologizing, etc. Basically for being human and owning up instead of doubling down or just slinking off).
Maybe I’d be less forgiving if I saw the comment but your turnaround is rare and appreciated.
If I had directly quoted them and cited the quotation would the reaction have been the same?
No, especially if you used quotes.
Satire can be difficult.
How is that a racist statement?
I also eat curry (actually made some myself last saturday) and I’m a white cis male, so the least likely target of any -cism (at least any that can be taken seriously)?
Should I feel offended by that statement? lol
Because Harris is both Black and Indian heritage and curry and fried chicken are the two foods most stereotypically associated with each aspect of her heritage. It’s not like he picked two random foods.
Wait
Fried chicken is associated with black people in the US?
Are you shitting me?
Over here in Europe it’s considered redneck-food lol
Also thanks for explaining and not downvoting like the other toxic fucks here. Lemmy really is becoming reddit 2.0, huh?
Yeah there are a few others like watermelon and soul food.
Same energy as beans with Mexicans.
Associating Soul food with (southern) African Americans doesn’t feel racist to me. Am I in danger of accidentally offending someone?
I would say depends on context. I heard some edgy comments in 90s.
It doesn’t make very much sense if you’re not a racist, and yet…
Oh yeah. I’ve definitely heard fried chicken and watermelons being used in racist context.
I’ve only ever heard soul food referred to in a positive (I.e. tasty) manner.
My God how I envy your innocence.
Idk it apparently gets you downvoted here
I switched to Lemmy because I was told it would be less toxic than Reddit. But I guess that was a fucking lie.
Might as well switch back to reddit if this keeps up. At least They don’t support genocidal regimes there there.
From my point of view, the racist food tropes being highlighted here are overtones and not undertones, and fairly obvious ones inside America. Especially provided the specific context of the subject matter.
If that doesn’t resonate with you, you are probably surrounded by exceptionally wonderful people, and I hope this is the case for you.
About Reddit/Lemmy… tech is tech.
Oh man, once I came over here and found out that just like reddit, it’s an echo chamber for the left…
I think you know where to go to find your people. There’s 2 socials I can think of off the top of my head that’ll be right up your alley!
Oh man, you just made the mistake of pointing out that you’re white…
Wait. Did he just add the fried chicken to the reference? Loomers was just curry, wasn’t it? Wtf JD
Next up he’ll add watermelon too.
They love adding racist dogwhistles don’t they?
I think we can stop calling it a dog whistle when they start just saying it.
If that’s an impromptu response, that’s a sort of natural racism that 4chan would be envious of.
Very memorable, wasn’t it?
Now Lemmy World will be talking about him for days!
Now that we’re discussing Laura Lamer and her presumed copulation with Diaper Drump….
What happened to Melanomia, that faded model and speech duplicater that happened to be the official wife? Anyone seen her in the last few months?
On one hand, Melania is a horrible person in her own right. On the other, I don’t think any other single person has done more to humiliate and infuriate Cadet Bonespurs.
I liked it when she refused to move to Washington and when she made the White House look like a torture chamber for Christmas.
Melanie is likely doing what she truly loves. Shopping in Manhattan and spending time with Hans the yoga instructor, while Trump is far far away
She has some sort of book coming out and is set to do dozens of interviews but I’m sure they’ll be extremely controlled publicity interviews where she just says cliches.
More importantly, no more creepy comments about Ivanka. Now we know why: Ivanka is too old for Trump
More than anything else - more than an opportunist or a hypocrite or a liar or a fraud - Vance’s primary attribute and defining characteristic really is simply that he’s an asshole.
I tend to like assholes;
But not the person kind.
Me too! My favorite is that some river turtles can breathe through their assholes.
Learned about how platypuses are basically evolutionary champions yesterday and river turtles inhaling air through their assholes today. I love it here.
Dude. Trigger warning
It’s like a Furby.
I’m not sure what’s worse, him being a sellout or that his price is so stupidly low.
Rather than take any ownership of his role in spreading false claims and incendiary rhetoric, Vance recoiled, saying that any suggestion that he’d been responsible for inciting the bomb threats in Springfield was “disgusting.” The Ohio senator scolded Bash for sounding like a “Democratic propagandist” as she called him out on his reckless lying.
Depending on his wife’s level of patience, I give this guy at most two years before he gets divorce papers in the post.
and when that happens, I guarantee she’ll then be smeared all over the right wing news as some greencard grabber who only married him to infiltrate america.
And does anyone really think his wife isn’t right there with him is selling out and endorsing the racism?
She’s made very few appearances with him; largely following Melania’s lead and staying out of everything as much as possible.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if the moment they lose the election, she tells him to fuck off and divorces him. Privately she’s likely disgusted to find out that her husband is a feckless sycophant who without hesitation would sell out his own family for an attempt at power.
Laura Loomer does not peg Donald Trump, These rumors are completely unsubstantiated, we will find the people that are spreading the rumor that Laura Loomer pegs Donald Trump and tell them to stop the fake news!
Did the motherfucker forget to add watermelon to the list? It’s amazing that even when he isn’t trying the racism just flows out like spit dripping down his lip
Lots of Cucks for Trump in politics. Cruz was just the tip of the iceberg.
There is no lie he won’t tell if he thinks it might help him attain personal power
He knows the base wants him to do so.
I see Vance has been trained well in the Trump tactic of “nothing I say or do influences people’s actions and I have no responsibility as a federal candidate.”
