Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) this week headlined a "Black Americans for Trump" event in Atlanta that The New Republic's Talia Jane has deemed a "major bust."In her dispatch on the event, Jane notes that Trump didn't even bother to show up and instead spoke to attendees via telephone about his planned t...
Serious question;
Am I over-thinking it to be skeeved out by the phrase “blacks” for Trump?
It’s basically saying that their main defining characteristic as a group is their colour rather than anything about who they are culturally.
It would be like a politician here in Canada courting the indigenous vote by holding a rally called “Reds for Pollieve” or something.
I don’t see that really being talked about or mentioned and wonder am I just over-thinking it? Or is it just that it’s just one more fucked up thing that gets buried under a dozen other fucked up things…
No you’re right the whole thing is a sick joke.
You are right. Turning an adjective into a noun tends to make it more degrading because you’ve focused on the characteristic rather than the person. That’s why referring to people as “blacks” or “females” feels icky. It’s why we saw “deaf people” and not “the deafs” or “old people” and not “the olds.”
But the only reason we don’t talk about the poors that way is because we can legally destroy where they sleep and run them out of town :)
Those Olds really are fucking things up around here tho