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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump-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 womans 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.
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)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.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)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.
...just...wow.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Is Oompa Loompa a race?
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)If Calling Cheeto Orange Gets Under The Deplorable Sheep Skin, WHO CARES.....
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,283 posts)maryellen99
(3,785 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Why does a grown man were full makeup all day anyway? What's under that orange cake face? Is he a vampire?
treestar
(82,383 posts)lark
(23,059 posts)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.
The orange have struggled for decades. Especially the great fake tanning lotion shortage of the 1980s
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)is a color not found in nature.
sellitman
(11,605 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 29, 2017, 10:39 AM - Edit history (1)
Please tell me its from the Onion.
Orrex
(63,169 posts)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)So maybe Psaki is onto something.
Voltaire2
(12,939 posts)m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... 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.)
FSogol
(45,435 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)And that's saying something.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)It is unbecoming.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Orange is a choice. It's not a race. It's suntan and make up and a total choice.
procon
(15,805 posts)Turbineguy
(37,285 posts)Apparently.
Zambero
(8,962 posts)A "race-altering" topical substance that comes in a bottle???
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Makes a doughy orange.
lame54
(35,259 posts)lame54
(35,259 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)it's early yet so I can't declare a winner.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)MGKrebs
(8,138 posts)A good chuckle to start the day.
AnnaLee
(1,033 posts)In fact I thought they wanted a President that was OK with all colors of name calling.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)refer to this as "race-baiting", but it's apparently OK when you're talking about orange people.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)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)It's clearly a medical condition and he sheds tears when he gets nervous/agitated.
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)(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)Your own irritation aside, what are the specific counter-productive consequences of any real measure or weight that can be objectively illustrated?
Initech
(100,029 posts)GumboYaYa
(5,941 posts)by comparisons to Trump. Being orange is no reason to hate on someone.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)(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)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,212 posts)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.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)I'm thinking you could do it.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)We're into Alice in Wonderland territory now.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)They are crying orange tears!
irisblue
(32,916 posts)Limits do not exist. Freepers will run wild with this.
bora13
(860 posts)how can any human being deride someone for being orange!
What? They are white and like orange better?
eat it.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I am so sick of these ***king idiots!
F ORANGE Hitler and his mouth drooling party!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)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?
rivegauche
(601 posts)You really cannot invent such idiocy.
niyad
(113,029 posts)human beings is orange, and has suffered centuries of discrimination?
PatSeg
(47,239 posts)or he really doesn't know the definition of "racism". Maybe both I suppose.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Is it racist to call a racist, a racist!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Orange. Orange. Orange!!!!!!!
roamer65
(36,744 posts)oldcynic
(385 posts)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.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,711 posts)But I'm sure even these dumbfucks know that.
Stinky The Clown
(67,757 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)are so treated like 2nd class citizens.
Cha
(296,775 posts)JDC
(10,114 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Is Kingston really so stupid that he believes that's the groper's natural skin color?
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)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)then that is a lifestyle choice!
LOL
Buns_of_Fire
(17,148 posts)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)...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.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)a tanning bed in the White House?