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    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Nina Turner was shut out of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. They set up a table outside for her faction with water bottles and a box of donuts. The donut emoji is the cockade of a faction of conservative Twitter liberals who celebrate this occasion.

      The move of providing a box of donuts as "consolation" apparently has a long history in the labor and civil rights struggles as being a "fuck you" gesture, and there is a good argument it is racist considering its history and who it was directed at. Perhaps someone else could fill in more.

    • JayTwo [any]
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      4 years ago

      It's back from when this happened, over three years ago.
      The DNC refused to let Nina Turner and her supporters into the building, and had barricades, and security guards offering donuts, waiting for them.
      According to the DNC, it was an act of kindness. According to Nina Turner, it was an act of condescension. I'm with Nina on this one.

      Twitter neolibs then took to using the donut emoji in their screen names as a sort of counter to the rose emoji.
      Thus donut twitter was born.