Oprah fires back at racist robocall: 'Jesus don't like ugly'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Oprah Winfrey on Monday responded to a white supremacist group targeting her and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in a robocall to voters.

“Jesus don’t like ugly,” she said of the robocall in an Instagram video.

“I heard people were making racist robocalls in my name against Stacey Abrams, who I am one hundred percent for, in Georgia,” Winfrey says. “I just want to say: Jesus don’t like ugly … And we know what to do about that: vote. Tomorrow show up and show out, and vote.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp0Y3C6BjEK/?utm_source=ig_embed

The robocall, apparently funded by TheRoadToPower.com, was sent to voters last week after the legendary talk-show host stumped for the Democratic candidate and knocked on voters’ doors in Georgia.

The group, which the Anti-Defamation League has labeled white supremacist and anti-Semitic, also targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/415100-oprah-fires-back-at-racist-robocall-jesus-dont-like-ugly

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I'm hornswoggled by "Jesus don't like ugly."

Now, I'm not expert on Jesus, and I certainly don't even think he was a real person who existed, but even within the context of a fictional creature, what little I think I know about him he didn't give a flying fuck what anyone looked like. Seems to me that he thought that people ought to be nice to each other. Have I missed anything?

[Roland99]

2. That doesn't refer to physical appearance

Refers to attitude and actions

[SaschaHM]

3. It's also a rather common saying around certain parts alongside "God don't like ugly."

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Ahhh, that makes more sense.

But still, it seems counter to what I thought I knew about Christianity.

About which I don't know much, since I was raised Roman Catholic, so I was raised with a lot of rules and zero knowledge of the Bible. The first time I started reading it as an adult I was thunderstruck. Coming to it from a place of profound ignorance, I want you to know that it read like science fiction.

One of the reasons I get furious at those who think all atheists and agnostics are totally immoral, os that in my experience atheists and agnostics tend to follow the Golden Rule far better than those who claim to be Christian. Related to that, it occurred to me some years ago that a fundamental problem with fundamentalists is that they look entirely outside themselves for instructions about how to behave, how to be good. If they don't think they're going to get caught and be punished, then they can do whatever they want. In comparison, non religious people internalize rules about how to behave and how to treat others. They don't worry so much about punishment, rather they focus on what is the right way to behave towards others.