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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 09:45 AM Mar 2017

Trump-supporter: Calling him "orange" is racist.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/trump-supporter-to-cnn-liberals-cant-complain-about-racist-oreilly-jokes-if-they-call-trump-orange/

During a debate with former Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki, Kingston questioned why it was okay for liberals to make jokes about Trump being orange, while conservatives are repeatedly called out when they make jokes about a black woman’s hair making her look like James Brown.



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Indeed. Orange-Americans like Donald Trump and John Boehner are members of a minority that has historically suffered from discrimination.
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Trump-supporter: Calling him "orange" is racist. (Original Post) DetlefK Mar 2017 OP
They're getting desperate. dalton99a Mar 2017 #1
Yep. Orange is the new orange. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #10
Nah. toddwv Mar 2017 #65
I'll apologize when I see an unaltered color baby pic of an orange Trump n/t n2doc Mar 2017 #2
+1 dalton99a Mar 2017 #3
Being orange is a choice crazycatlady Mar 2017 #4
wow mindfulNJ Mar 2017 #5
Orange doesn't refer to his race. It refers to his self-tanning spray. n/t Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #6
I don't know pokerfan Mar 2017 #69
Cheeto Is Orange Period.... LovingA2andMI Mar 2017 #7
Say it loud; I'm extra pulp, and I'm proud. NT mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2017 #8
ROFLMAO maryellen99 Mar 2017 #20
Maybe Trump should spent less time on cakeface makeup and more time on governing. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #9
he's Voldemort! treestar Mar 2017 #24
Sorry, that's Rick Scott. lark Mar 2017 #53
Yes Soxfan58 Mar 2017 #11
Trump's spray-on makeup C_U_L8R Mar 2017 #12
This has to be from The Onion sellitman Mar 2017 #13
We should stop calling him an incompetent racist asshole for the same reason Orrex Mar 2017 #14
We have evidence that the Oompa Loompahs suffered terribly in their native land Orrex Mar 2017 #15
Apparently taking "orange is the new black" literally. Voltaire2 Mar 2017 #16
LOL! funniest thing I have read today so far! "Calling him orange is racist" m-lekktor Mar 2017 #17
It is yet early... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #34
This is true but, for me, that one is hard to top! lol nt m-lekktor Mar 2017 #38
My skin color is not a choice. Trump's spray-on fake tan color IS a choice... NurseJackie Mar 2017 #18
+1 coco22 Mar 2017 #41
Is there an Oompa Loompa Anti-Defamation League? FSogol Mar 2017 #19
Lol bronxiteforever Mar 2017 #54
That guy is the stupidest Trump-humper on TV mcar Mar 2017 #21
We need to stop discriminating against Spray Tan Americans scheming daemons Mar 2017 #22
lOLOLOLOLOL treestar Mar 2017 #23
There's someone who needs a crash course in diversity and sensitivity training. nt procon Mar 2017 #25
Trump supporters have a copyright on racism. Turbineguy Mar 2017 #26
What race would that be referring to??? Zambero Mar 2017 #27
Commie Red mixed with Cowardly Yellow Mr. Ected Mar 2017 #28
good point lame54 Mar 2017 #30
Suffered all the way to the whitehouse lame54 Mar 2017 #29
LoL! That's the stupidest thing I've heard today but... WePurrsevere Mar 2017 #31
Defending the rights of Oompa Loompas everywhere... Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #32
Calling him a greasy shitstain seems pretty neutral. KittyWampus Mar 2017 #33
That is hilarious. MGKrebs Mar 2017 #35
I'm confused. I thought Political Correctness was frowned upon among the right wing. AnnaLee Mar 2017 #36
It's not politically correct to call a deplorable a deplorable. DetlefK Mar 2017 #37
They'd normally Jamaal510 Mar 2017 #74
Seriously I think reference to physical attributes exboyfil Mar 2017 #39
I never liked the jokes about John Boehner crying. DetlefK Mar 2017 #43
Makeup/tanning products aren't physical attributes. NYC Liberal Mar 2017 #58
What specific counter-productive consequences of any real measure LanternWaste Mar 2017 #64
To who? Bronzer salesmen? Or maybe orangutans? Initech Mar 2017 #40
I agree, diminutive chocolate factory workers are unfairly being maligned GumboYaYa Mar 2017 #42
Was he born orange? kskiska Mar 2017 #44
Cheeto American from the orange cheese portion of Earth's moon. (That's science. Period - Spicer) Solly Mack Mar 2017 #45
Oh ow. I read via phone and now there's spit onnit. Thanks. sprinkleeninow Mar 2017 #73
I hope that means you laughed. Solly Mack Mar 2017 #79
Ehh, that sounded like taken another way, dinnit. sprinkleeninow Mar 2017 #81
Thank you. Solly Mack Mar 2017 #82
Seriously? tallahasseedem Mar 2017 #46
People, I can not quit laughing my ass off!! Doreen Mar 2017 #47
Cheetohs from coast to coast are offended!!!! Happyhippychick Mar 2017 #48
This took longer then I thought it would. Conservative/Republican dumbassery irisblue Mar 2017 #49
this is the worst. bora13 Mar 2017 #50
Brain dead republicans workinclasszero Mar 2017 #51
If you support the GOP, now, after all this, you are Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #52
new RWNJ motto: Orange Lives Matter rivegauche Mar 2017 #55
can somebody please refresh my very old, and obviously deficient memory? WHAT race of niyad Mar 2017 #56
Whoa, that's pretty desperate PatSeg Mar 2017 #57
The Age Old Q: Cryptoad Mar 2017 #59
Such bullshit. hamsterjill Mar 2017 #60
Agent Orange. roamer65 Mar 2017 #61
Makes you realize how dumb "race" is oldcynic Mar 2017 #62
Orange isn't a race Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2017 #63
Yeah Stinky The Clown Mar 2017 #66
The people of Orangena GulfCoast66 Mar 2017 #67
How about "Asshole"? Cha Mar 2017 #68
Kingston proves, yet again, that he is just stupid JDC Mar 2017 #70
There are no such thing as orange people. BlueStater Mar 2017 #71
dRump surrogate and russia lobbyist Jack Kingston? Mc Mike Mar 2017 #72
I knew it Jamaal510 Mar 2017 #75
Sorry but if you are orange because of too much time under the tanning lamp PatrickforO Mar 2017 #76
Everyone knows the Oompa-Loompas were constantly in danger Buns_of_Fire Mar 2017 #77
Don't get the bad orange... Mike Nelson Mar 2017 #78
Do you think he has gldstwmn Mar 2017 #80

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
65. Nah.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 05:25 PM
Mar 2017

They're just trying to establish what in their minds equals an equivalency.

I have no doubt that some of them will actually start to believe it.

crazycatlady

(4,492 posts)
4. Being orange is a choice
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 09:50 AM
Mar 2017

Yes a bad one caused by a bad tanning job or a wrong shade of bronzer. (I need brain bleach typing this sentence) but I bet their ass cheeks are not orange.

Being black or brown is something you're born with.

LovingA2andMI

(7,006 posts)
7. Cheeto Is Orange Period....
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 09:58 AM
Mar 2017

If Calling Cheeto Orange Gets Under The Deplorable Sheep Skin, WHO CARES.....

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
9. Maybe Trump should spent less time on cakeface makeup and more time on governing.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 09:58 AM
Mar 2017

Why does a grown man were full makeup all day anyway? What's under that orange cake face? Is he a vampire?

lark

(23,059 posts)
53. Sorry, that's Rick Scott.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:32 PM
Mar 2017

He earned that name a long time ago and much more closely resembles the evil wizard than Drumpf. Besides, Drumpf is too ineffectual to be Voldemort. who did have real skills, where all Drumpf has is $ and hate.

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)
11. Yes
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:03 AM
Mar 2017

The orange have struggled for decades. Especially the great fake tanning lotion shortage of the 1980s

Orrex

(63,169 posts)
14. We should stop calling him an incompetent racist asshole for the same reason
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:07 AM
Mar 2017

It's not fair to lump all incompetent racist assholes as if they're all the same kind of incompetent racist asshole.

Orrex

(63,169 posts)
15. We have evidence that the Oompa Loompahs suffered terribly in their native land
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:09 AM
Mar 2017

So maybe Psaki is onto something.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
18. My skin color is not a choice. Trump's spray-on fake tan color IS a choice...
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:11 AM
Mar 2017

... and a bad one. Come to think of it: both he AND Melania make very bad choices (or receive bad advice) with regard to their grooming and personal appearance.

It won't belong before Trump gets a facelift. He'll get his turkey wattle pulled back and will start to look as smooth and tight as Wayne Newton, or Kenny Rogers, or Mickey Rourke, or David Gest. (I can't wait... I'll laugh and laugh and laugh.)

Zambero

(8,962 posts)
27. What race would that be referring to???
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:35 AM
Mar 2017

A "race-altering" topical substance that comes in a bottle???

AnnaLee

(1,033 posts)
36. I'm confused. I thought Political Correctness was frowned upon among the right wing.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:50 AM
Mar 2017

In fact I thought they wanted a President that was OK with all colors of name calling.

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
74. They'd normally
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:23 AM
Mar 2017

refer to this as "race-baiting", but it's apparently OK when you're talking about orange people.

exboyfil

(17,862 posts)
39. Seriously I think reference to physical attributes
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:08 AM
Mar 2017

in the context of political discussion is counterproductive. Trump's words and actions are sufficient to demonstrate his unsuitability for office.

I was irritated when individuals criticized Ross Perot's height.

I was irritated when individuals criticized Chris Christy's weight.

I was irritated about comments regarding Michelle Obama's figure (also amazed since she is a gorgeous woman).

Maybe we can tone down the orange orangutan jokes applied to Trump. Also comments regarding his weight. It does appear that he is working on his weight - see all the golf he is now doing.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
43. I never liked the jokes about John Boehner crying.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:18 AM
Mar 2017

It's clearly a medical condition and he sheds tears when he gets nervous/agitated.

NYC Liberal

(20,135 posts)
58. Makeup/tanning products aren't physical attributes.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:45 PM
Mar 2017

(Neither are his ill fitting suits, for that matter.)

That's not his natural skin color. He could easily hire a decent stylist if he wanted a tan look, but he chooses not to.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
64. What specific counter-productive consequences of any real measure
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 01:10 PM
Mar 2017

Your own irritation aside, what are the specific counter-productive consequences of any real measure or weight that can be objectively illustrated?

GumboYaYa

(5,941 posts)
42. I agree, diminutive chocolate factory workers are unfairly being maligned
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:13 AM
Mar 2017

by comparisons to Trump. Being orange is no reason to hate on someone.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
45. Cheeto American from the orange cheese portion of Earth's moon. (That's science. Period - Spicer)
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 11:36 AM
Mar 2017

(or an alternative fact - KA Conway)

Their skin becomes a soft squishy pinkish red away from their native cheesy land and they need to use orange spray tan to achieve their normal skin hue.

You'll know them mainly by their orange skin and freakish hair. A separate living organism that attaches itself to the heads of Cheeto babies shortly after they are plucked from the Cheeto mother tree. All Cheetos® come from the same mother tree.

Cheeto-Americans can be easily found (and avoided) due to their constant braying over every little slight - real or imagined.

Lying is how they breathe and Cheeto-english is their primary language.

Cheeto-english is sort of a Palinesque off-shoot mixed with gibberish, but said with as much braggadocio as possible. Native speakers are known for repeating the same words over and over again, as well as pursing the lips into the shape of a hen's ass to achieve the proper Cheeto desired effect.

Cheetos® can breed with humans but the resulting offspring is expensive to maintain and useless in function.

To date, there has only been one Cheeto to make the trip from the orange cheesy nether regions of Earth's moon. Fred Trump touched down on earth some 112 years ago. He was allowed to stay and granted citizenship. His son, Donald, much like the artificial representation of cheese his skin hue suggest, is also an artificial representation of a human.


The End.








sprinkleeninow

(20,212 posts)
81. Ehh, that sounded like taken another way, dinnit.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 02:39 PM
Mar 2017

I dint have mah funkin wagnalls handy to consult another cinnamon for 'chortle'. I am not fond of lololols.

I am in awe of ingenious writing. I can't do dat.

irisblue

(32,916 posts)
49. This took longer then I thought it would. Conservative/Republican dumbassery
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:16 PM
Mar 2017

Limits do not exist. Freepers will run wild with this.

bora13

(860 posts)
50. this is the worst.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:21 PM
Mar 2017

how can any human being deride someone for being orange!
What? They are white and like orange better?

eat it.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
51. Brain dead republicans
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:25 PM
Mar 2017

I am so sick of these ***king idiots!

F ORANGE Hitler and his mouth drooling party!

Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
52. If you support the GOP, now, after all this, you are
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:28 PM
Mar 2017

one of the problems that the rest of the world has to deal with to survive.

Sure ISIS wants to kill a handful here and there, and the guy in NK wants to kill us all, but what is YOUR excuse, righty? Those guys are nuts, are you?

Or are you more like Putin, willing to watch people die all over the place for more power?

niyad

(113,029 posts)
56. can somebody please refresh my very old, and obviously deficient memory? WHAT race of
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:37 PM
Mar 2017

human beings is orange, and has suffered centuries of discrimination?

PatSeg

(47,239 posts)
57. Whoa, that's pretty desperate
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 12:42 PM
Mar 2017

or he really doesn't know the definition of "racism". Maybe both I suppose.

oldcynic

(385 posts)
62. Makes you realize how dumb "race" is
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 01:05 PM
Mar 2017

Used to say "don't care if somebody is white, black or purple..."
now I gotta say "...if somebody is white, black or orange..". You've turned me into a racist! I do care if somebody is orange. In fact, I think all orange people should be banned from entering the country and any orangy already here should be deported to their home planet. After all, isn't it true that orangers are the result of inbreeding with orangutans out behind the woodshed? Obviously orangers are planning to take over America by raping innocent primates.

My apologies for taking the name of orangutan in vain. They are gods.

BlueStater

(7,596 posts)
71. There are no such thing as orange people.
Wed Mar 29, 2017, 07:05 PM
Mar 2017

Is Kingston really so stupid that he believes that's the groper's natural skin color?

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
75. I knew it
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:25 AM
Mar 2017

was only a matter of time before some Trumpanzee would say something like this, as if "orange" is a racial group.

PatrickforO

(14,558 posts)
76. Sorry but if you are orange because of too much time under the tanning lamp
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:43 AM
Mar 2017

then that is a lifestyle choice!

LOL

Buns_of_Fire

(17,148 posts)
77. Everyone knows the Oompa-Loompas were constantly in danger
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:01 AM
Mar 2017

from Whangdoodles, Hornswogglers and Snozzwangers. My theory is that Rump is the love child of a forbidden tryst between an Oompa-Loompa and a Hornswoggler, hidden from Wonka's henchmen when they came to spirit away all the other Oompa-Loompas to a life of forced labor in the Wonka factory.

As he matured, the young Rumpa-Loompa began to exhibit the general orange complexion of a native Oompa-Loompa, but the gene for green hair became mutated, giving the ghastly result we all see today. The other Hornswoggler genes proved to be dominant, giving the other ghastly result we see today.


horn·swog·gle
/ˈhôrnˌswäɡəl/
verb NORTH AMERICAN informal
get the better of (someone) by cheating or deception.
"you mean to say you were hornswoggled?"

Mike Nelson

(9,942 posts)
78. Don't get the bad orange...
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 04:25 AM
Mar 2017

...he pays for full-time hair and makeup people, obviously, for his wife - normal for many wealthy people. Celebrity males have access to the best tanning make-up - witness the recent movie award season. Still, Trump looks ghastly!

As for it being racist to point it out - I don't agree. Although darker skinned people attempt to lighten their skin tone, that is trying to "fit in" due to racism. Also, society judges beauty unevenly - Distinctly Caucasian, African and Asian features can all be beautiful. Trump judges people due to their skin color and he is part of the problem.

Nor is it sexist as Trump comments on how people look all the time. I will acknowledge that he has been made fun of due to his looks (hair), though. I understand he had parts of his hair moved surgically - maybe a nice wig would have been better because the hair grows out wrong and makes him look silly. Again, wealthy people can afford to look great with bald or thinning hairstyles.

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