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[kill]

Seriously, if Republicans honestly don't have any idea that White House watermelon gardens or cartoons about shot-dead chimps related to stimulus plans are connected to historical racial stereotypes, if they really don't know and claim to be clueless

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[greytweed]

They act as if they're the only ones out of the loop. I'm with you: I don't believe this.

[sculpin]

I saw that cartoon described at Pam's House Blend as a "Jar-Jar Binks moment", and thought, "Yeah, that's it exactly." I remember watching open-mouthed as that servile, floppy, freckled, futuristic Steppin' Fetchit grovelled his way across then screen. I was all, "WHAT THE HELL." I mean, I know I am not exactly the most sensitive soul, and I'm pretty clueless about a lot of racist stereotypes*, but DAMN WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE STOP STOP

[marzipan_pig]

I was willing to think maybe he didn't think of the watermelon thing as a NEGATIVE racial stereotype, but his apology didn't even really seem to capture that (or why it isn't appropriate to be like LOOK IT'S BLACK FOOD IN THE WHITE HOUSE, as if no one else likes watermelon?).