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Naja KaouthiaVivek “drill, frack, burn coal” Ramalamadingdong. I’m having flashbacks to that dipshit Palin and her drill baby drill battle screech.
txruHe’s a piece of shit, but calling Ramaswamy “Ramalamadingdong” kind of gross to me.
Exactly! That title belongs to Mr. M. Night Shamalamadingdong!
Please don’t
ddhOut of curiosity, why?
Please reallty try to giive everybody else on the stage a similarly racist treatment and come back to us.
It’s more than a little vaguely racist.
It’s the equivalent of calling Elaine Chao, Mitch McConnell’s wife, “Elaine Chingchongdingdong”.
Being disrespectful through casual racism is low hanging fruit. You can dislike them without being racist about it.
I think in terms of mutable and immutable characteristics.
We can choose to have integrity, dignity, honesty-- things he chooses not to. We can’t choose our ethnicity, surname at birth, bone structure, childhood hardship.
People find it acceptable to make fun of people doing things they don’t like by transferring to things they don’t understand or don’t regularly encounter.
The innocent here are people with a name like Ramaswamy, but who are just trying to be normal decent people, trying to avoid drawing attention to their ‘unusual’ sounding name.
Think about some feature of yourself that’s unusual but immediately apparent. I have a large facial mole, for instance. Think about how it sucks when people put down that feature for no good reason. It fucking sucks. Then try to imagine: the thing that’s unusual is something everyone in your family, or your community, or your culture, possesses. Maybe it’s even a source of dignity and pride. But most of the majority culture doesn’t understand or regularly encounter it, so it’s just a joke.