https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/20/politics/democratic-consensus-harris-should-biden-step-aside/index.html

https://archive.ph/sOtfC

  • NeelixBiederman [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Okay, while the "fell out of a coconut tree" tree line is fine, referring to a brown skinned person as a "coconut" is indeed problematic. "Brown on the outside, white on the inside". Even if it's kinda true in her case

    • buh [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      The coconut tree meme exists in the context of all that is and all that came before it

      • huf [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        boohoo turns out not even coconuts fell out of a coconut tree, when will this end

        • booty [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          kitty-cri-screm the coconuts did not fall from the tree, they were knocked out of the tree!

          • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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            5 months ago

            The context is not a coconut that falls from the tree when it is burdened by what has been

    • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      contextphobic when a mf says something so contextphobic you gotta hit em with the coconut tree stare

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      5 months ago

      Isn't that more of a UK thing? Never really heard that term used in America. There's a cookie-based slur that I think is more the US equivalent to the UK one.