• SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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    29 minutes ago

    From his Wikipedia page:

    In 2005, as a senior in high school, Mr. Lawler flew out to California and attended parts of Michael Jackson's criminal trial, where he was subsequently expelled from the courtroom for muttering something derogatory under his breath.

    Guy was just a really passionate fan.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 hours ago

    personally, if I was a party operative, fixer, or machine boss, I would go ahead and find out if there could possibly be any photo of a prospective candidate in blackface. and if it was possible, I would deny them access to the ticket.

    I really don't get how this continues to happen. like I was an adult in 2006 and "let's go to the party in blackface" was not a thing people were doing.

    • SadArtemis [she/her]
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      2 hours ago

      I really don't get how this continues to happen. like I was an adult in 2006 and "let's go to the party in blackface" was not a thing people were doing.

      The nepo babies and other elites in their ivory towers are terrible people, it's not really surprising. They can't fix the symptom without fixing the problem (ie getting rid of themselves and their racist, murderous, hideous system) lol

    • kristina [she/her]
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      2 hours ago

      There's no screening process for candidates like in Europe lol

  • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 hours ago

    I'd say that politicians seem to be have a much higher than average chance to have done black face, but i think its just a cracker thing anti-cracker-aktion

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      47 minutes ago

      Most crackers don’t have people digging up pictures from a party they went to 20 years ago. This is average cracker racism

  • stink@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Bro could have been michael jackson without blackface and he still decided to do it 😭

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      edit-2
      3 hours ago

      Was it Jackson 5 era MJ?

      Edit: I'm being passed a note. Apparently that isn't a great reason for blackface either.

  • porcupine@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 hours ago

    all Lawler needs to do is say the picture was leaked by Iran and NYT will immediately apologize, retract the story, and fire some low-level staff