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Pocahontas' muddy tax plan for funding trillion dollar new green deals

Yeah... seems like lots of people don't have any problems with outright racism lately.

I think Pocahontas is sexy.

I like the name, I think it fits her very well. It gives me a feeling of dearness.
 
Yes, it belittles the Native Americans.

How rude, to associate them with her. They are better than she is. They deserve our respect, She doesn't.

How should they deserve our respect?

They had thousands of years to get it together and when the white man came they didn't figure him out and sold land for trinkets and warred with their neighbor instead of uniting behind Tecumseh.

Then when alcohol was introduced they lost their soul.

Native Americans don't deserve our disrespect, but if they can't take someone jabbing them with Pocahontas, then why did they learn to take scalps like the white man?
 
Does Pocahontas need English lessons? Pocahontas, will you will be willing to raise taxes on the middle class" Clear, concise answer after just the first lesson in 101 English: "Hell yes!"

How hard is that?

The only honest answer is that everyone will pay higher taxes.

If you repeal Trump's failed plan.
 
I think calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" is a racist slur.

The "racist slur" comes in the form of sentencing Natives to reservations. Pine Ridge was a mess long before Trump called Warren Pocahontas, and will still be a mess long after both of them are gone.
 
You are confused. It's not racism it's belittling. There's a difference. Ones meaner. I'll let you guess which one.

There are plenty of ways of belittling people without using racist slurs. Does your desire to be meaner allow you to justify your racism?

I find that the best way to mock her for dishonestly saying she is a minority woman of color just to get coveted positions and accolades in the job market.

O.K... so she was dishonest(I think she was just misinformed). If she isn't a Native American and is as white as a saltine cracker then why aren't you calling her something like that? It is because all those racist right-wingers out there that you are pandering to might be offended if you called her a 'cracker'. It is much more effective to stick to a racist slur associated with Native American Indians.

Calling Trump unkind names is racist. Calling the rich white lying hoe Lieawatha Pocahontas is not racist.

Obviously, you have no real understanding of what is racist and what isn't.

Yes, it belittles the Native Americans.

How rude, to associate them with her. They are better than she is. They deserve our respect, She doesn't.

So... you admit calling her that belittles Native Americans. So it IS racist.

It is sometimes deemed necessary to point out instances of cultural appropriation - see political correctness. ;)



Cultural appropriation?? Have you ever even listened to the lyrics of that song? It is about racism and not any kind of cultural appropriation.

You probably wouldn't like Fauxcahontas, either.

Nope... racist as well.

I think Pocahontas is sexy.

I like the name, I think it fits her very well. It gives me a feeling of dearness.

Well, yeah... Pocahontas does conjure up fellings of sexy considering all the Hollywood portrayals I have seen all my life that are all of beautiful and attractive young ladies. But that still doesn't make it not racist.
 
Well, yeah... Pocahontas does conjure up fellings of sexy considering all the Hollywood portrayals I have seen all my life that are all of beautiful and attractive young ladies. But that still doesn't make it not racist.

Speaking of young, Warren is moving fast to appear young and bright to Biden and doing a good job of it.
 
How should they deserve our respect?

They had thousands of years to get it together and when the white man came they didn't figure him out and sold land for trinkets and warred with their neighbor instead of uniting behind Tecumseh.

Then when alcohol was introduced they lost their soul.

Native Americans don't deserve our disrespect, but if they can't take someone jabbing them with Pocahontas, then why did they learn to take scalps like the white man?

They only lived on this continent for 10.000 years and didn't completely pollute it and destroy the environment. Left it in pretty good shape for us white European invaders to come and take it from them. And look what we have done to it in about 300 years.

And it isn't like the natives were any more or less prone to violence than the rest of humanity.

Oh... and those 'trinkets' were a treasure to a land that, until that time, had nothing like it anywhere.

:(

It never fails to sadden me when I see people who don't really understand what racism really is.
 
They only lived on this continent for 10.000 years and didn't completely pollute it and destroy the environment. Left it in pretty good shape for us white European invaders to come and take it from them. And look what we have done to it in about 300 years.

And it isn't like the natives were any more or less prone to violence than the rest of humanity.

Oh... and those 'trinkets' were a treasure to a land that, until that time, had nothing like it anywhere.

:(

It never fails to sadden me when I see people who don't really understand what racism really is.

I bet if you had those trinkets now they'd be worth a pretty penny.

I don't understand racism, because I'm from the UP eh, ya, OK?

Our answer to racism is to go North into the snow where people don't have the resources to wast in your feudal divides.

It took five-hundred years.

Yes, they did nobly, but ultimately were not ready to rule over us white people.

First thing they did was shoot arrows at us, so they were no better than the Spaniards, I wonder if they had heard what they had been up to?

Word travels.
 
They only lived on this continent for 10.000 years and didn't completely pollute it and destroy the environment. Left it in pretty good shape for us white European invaders to come and take it from them. And look what we have done to it in about 300 years.

And it isn't like the natives were any more or less prone to violence than the rest of humanity.

Oh... and those 'trinkets' were a treasure to a land that, until that time, had nothing like it anywhere.

:(

It never fails to sadden me when I see people who don't really understand what racism really is.

The environment is not that bad.

In 500 years we have built cities and gone into space and screwed up by putting our feet on the moon, just like we're screwing up now by electing Republicans who give us tax break without paying the bills.
 
The environment is not that bad.

In 500 years we have built cities and gone into space and screwed up by putting our feet on the moon, just like we're screwing up now by electing Republicans who give us tax break without paying the bills.

I would suggest the bills need to be reduced. We have too much socialism.
 
I would suggest the bills need to be reduced. We have too much socialism.

Nonsense, cutting social programs won't make a drop in the bucket.

We need to cut health care and military spending by fifty percent without toppling the economy.

Do this with a Federal vegan program.
 
She's saying basically the taxes will be minuscule compared to the savings from other places, but of course, conservatives never look at the whole picture and what do you care? Trump has already raised taxes on the middle class.

She will not come right out with the truth because the truth is democrats do plan to explode the budget and don't have a clue how they plan to pay for the explosion other than to tax the fire out of the American people. It is not good politics for a candidate to admit she plans on taxing the fire out of the people she wants voting for her.
 
In all fairness to Warren, I have Indian ancestry. I am only something like 3/32nd. Maybe it's 3/64th. When I had DNA testing done, there was no trace left, though it's in an Aunts DNA. It was a bred out of me. I never followed the claim, as to how much she claimed to be, but genetics is a funny thing.

Rachel Dolezal had more black blood in her than Pocahontas Warren had native American Indian blood in her.
 
Why? Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall, but now our taxes are and you don't seem to care. I thought you liked getting lied to.

I don't like being lied to, but since all men are liars I have gotten used to being lied to. However, I don't care if they cannot help it or not, I will still mock proud lying buffoons.
 
Nope, she is saying as little as possible since her proposals for new "free" stuff would require loads of additional taxation.

Democrats see themselves as spiritual guides of sort, whose destiny it is to lead the ignorant masses into the glorious one world government future whether they like it or not. It does not matter to the elitists what the cost in money or freedom, they just know the ignorant masses must be prepared to pay the cost to achieve that elitist democrat vision of heaven on earth.
 
I think calling Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" is a racist slur.

It's an insult to Indians. Particularly one very fine female Indian.
 
The only honest answer is that everyone will pay higher taxes.

If you repeal Trump's failed plan.

We are already paying through the nose on the debt we already owe. It is a stupid lie to propose tripling the size of our debt through new deal spending while promising reduced taxes for the middle class.
 
I find that the best way to mock her for dishonestly saying she is a minority woman of color just to get coveted positions and accolades in the job market.

Except that didn't happen.
 
The "racist slur" comes in the form of sentencing Natives to reservations. Pine Ridge was a mess long before Trump called Warren Pocahontas, and will still be a mess long after both of them are gone.

There is little point going back a thousand years to criticize every war conducted on earth which resulted in changes in property ownership.
 
I find that the best way to mock her for dishonestly saying she is a minority woman of color just to get coveted positions and accolades in the job market.

People need to be kept reminded of what this phony actually is for the next 15 months. You're not going to do that by playing nicey nice by the left's rules.

Which is why the left doesn't like the term. Therefore must revert to the fallback "must be racist" position.
 
O.K... so she was dishonest(I think she was just misinformed). If she isn't a Native American and is as white as a saltine cracker then why aren't you calling her something like that? It is because all those racist right-wingers out there that you are pandering to might be offended if you called her a 'cracker'. It is much more effective to stick to a racist slur associated with Native American Indians.

She helped herself while hurting a lot of other people by lying for years about her heritage to give her advantages. Like Blumenthal lying about being a Vietnam veteran, she earned a special intensity of disdain from the public for such brazen dishonesty. I openly mock her because she is a narcissistic liar who will bring harm to the country if allowed to continue to lie and pollute the highest levels of our government going forward.
 
Maybe you are right. Does that make your racist slur O.K.?

The Indians at large thinks she is using them for her own benefit.

The word Pocahontas used on her has NOTHING to do with race, it is about her claim to be an Indian by was of a fraction of a percent of blood. The Indian nation doesn't recognize her claim at all, and have complained she is using their name without merit. She hasn't met the LEGAL claim to be an Indian at all.

You can drop your silly claim of racism complaint now.
 
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