politics @lemmy.world jeffw @lemmy.world 10mo ago

MTG is 'absolutely' racist, Texas Democrat says after their heated exchange in House

www.usatoday.com MTG is 'absolutely' racist, Texas Democrat says after their heated exchange in House

Jasmine Crockett, Texas Democrat, told CNN Sunday Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene was intentionally racist with her fake lashes remark.

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Well, she is a Republican, isn't she?
- Sadly it also is why she gets votes
- Crockett? She's a Dem.
  
  Edit: I certainly misread this whole thing
  
  Headline reads
  
  MTG is 'absolutely' racist, Texas Democrat says after their heated exchange in House
  
  ...and you think the "she" the commenter refers to as Republican is "Texas Democrat" and not "MTG?"
She's an open white nationalist.

How is her being racist any sort of surprise or questioned?
- Still gotta keep pointing it out. The goal of these people is to normalize their shittiness, so you need to keep saying, "this isn't normal, these people are whack as fuck."
NGL I initially read this as Magic: The Gathering being racist and was a little confused.
- Of all the things that irritate me about her, the fact that she's often identified by her initials might be the worst.
  
  People need to adopt more appropriate ways of abbreviating her name. Say something like Moscow Marge.
  
  Doesn't help in conversation, but in text one can just use Empty G.
- White cards have pictures of angels and noble soldiers on them. Black cards have zombies, demons, and grotesques.
  
  Sounds like "light" and "darkness" clichés, not references to skin pigmentation
- Same
- Me too
Maybe it’s a “no shit” moment but no elected official has said it publicly before
- The MAGA slope is a slippery one.
  
  Slippery because of all the santorum.
To be fair, she’s also really stupid.
The space laser lady? No way.
We should stop putting anything about MTG in the limelight.
- Right? The headline doesn't even name the representative that was the target of, and accused her of, racism. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas.
- Yeah, that was the reason I left /r/politics on reddit. It devolved into the "what did MTG do today" subreddit.
Magic The Gathering is racist?
- Everytime lol
Wow.

I never could have guessed.

What a shocking twist.
Maybe, but calling someone butch as an insult is going to earn her some angry replies from the lgbtq+ community. She should have not responded.

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