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Celeb News: Ellen Pompeo black emoji mess, fights black twitter
Member Since: 8/28/2012
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Millenials are so effin annoying.
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Originally posted by St. Charles
Idk just seeing the phrase "Generation KKK" and a white fist + hand next to it looks really off to me. Maybe it's just me though.
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this was exactly my first thought!
Seeing her using black hand emoji as a sign of empowerment for black folks over white supremacists was automatically my first thought.
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Originally posted by Alejandrawrrr
Well, that's the new trend in "online activism". Just like when BLM repeatedly crashed Bernie Sanders (and later Hillary Clinton), compared to barely even laying a finger on TRUMP or Carson, Rubio, etc. Or all the clearly fruitless "Trump protests" when the same people could have showed up and voted. It's this new generation of faux-activists who want to be seen doing trendy activism things like getting photographed protesting a politician who mostly agrees with your cause, joining a crowd in a highly publicized yet meaningless protest, or even just slamming "PROBLEMATIC!" celebs on twitter and waiting for those favs and retweets... But they don't want to actually go out there and deal with things the hard way, the way it was done in say, the Civil Rights movement or the LGBT rights movement.
Just look at the way people attack and shut down these celebs, instead of attempting to calmly educate them on why you find what they said objectionable. Like, I'm pretty sure half the people slamming Ellen Pompeo probably have a GOP mayor or governor taking away their rights as we speak, yet they neither know about it, nor probably even know the name of said representatives in the first place. This is why we're getting ****ed.
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woo, spill that hot TEA!!
this would be like LGBT movement attacking liberals instead of conservatives over a literal non-issue such a dumb emoji. A mess
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Originally posted by Alejandrawrrr
Well, that's the new trend in "online activism". Just like when BLM repeatedly crashed Bernie Sanders (and later Hillary Clinton), compared to barely even laying a finger on TRUMP or Carson, Rubio, etc.
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Oh my gosh this so much 100x. This is why people hate SJWs, so often they go after people who actually agree with their basic principles and are fighting for the same things (just not in such a radical, myopic way) while ignoring the real sources of harm.
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Originally posted by MileysusSlayrus
Her saying reverse racism exist annoyed me though. Other than that, Twitter is literally offended by everything. I remember posting a before/after picture of Bella Hadid's nose job and people were calling me racist, that i was being eurocentric and all kinds of things. That's the day I knew Twitter was not for me.
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Well did she lie? They're literally calling her "white bitch". If she was a random person instead of a celebrity they may have tried to get her fired, sent death threats, etc just because she's white and standing up to their slander. The only reason they're harassing her is because she's white. And it's also worth noting there's a notorious strand of 'woke' Twitter/social media activism who very much disagree with interracial relationships and particularly have a grudge against white women with black men. I'm sure some on here know what I'm talking about. They argue it's harmful to black women and devalues the race and whatnot. It's disturbing and fascinating how they can have gone so far to the left that they end up at the far right even if they don't realize it. That may be some of what is fuelling this hatred towards Ellen.
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Member Since: 12/3/2010
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This is all over emoji's. And she was raising a good point in the beginning.
You really think Rosa Parks would give two ****s about EMOJI'S?
I feel bad for her.
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God, this type of **** pisses me off, over a ****ing emoji? really people? really?
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Member Since: 12/4/2010
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Originally posted by Alejandrawrrr
Just like when BLM repeatedly crashed Bernie Sanders (and later Hillary Clinton), compared to barely even laying a finger on TRUMP or Carson, Rubio, etc.
Or all the clearly fruitless "Trump protests" when the same people could have showed up and voted.
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Originally posted by Everyone in this thread/on ATRL
This is why Trump won.
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Get this tea through your skulls and into your brains: - The majority of POC voted for Clinton in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Black women voted for Clinton at the highest percentages (94%) followed by Black men (83%)
- The majority of White people voted for Trump in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Reread #3. There isn't a single sector of the White demographic that majority voted against Trump.
Stop blaming people of color for racism, and stop blaming them for Trump's win. They were the ONLY people who came through for Clinton. Blame your White family members, and blame yourselves for not doing more to stop them.
Debate with your mothers. That's that on that.
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All this over a single emoji... This is why I don't use these social e-activists, they think they are justified to being rude to everything and everyone cause they think this or that is racism, when it's not.
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This was the wrong battle to pick. Of all the people out there who are actually saying racist things and being pieces of garbage online, people go after her? SMH.
The "OK I'm definitely not fat" response was beyond iconic though.
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Wow... this has gone too far. Actually, it went too far a while ago. How is attacking people educational at all.??? Honestly anyone who's still on that bandwagon thinking they need to attack everyone that doesn't agree with them is an idiot who can't think for themselves. This is not the way to go about bringing change. Ugly internet slacktivists can go back on Tumblr instead of wasting their time self-righteously attacking people because they think that their worldview is better (it is, but anyone who has enough time to do this surely can't be living an engaged and productive life???). It's sooooo idiotic, like this woman has a black family.... what th ****
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And honestly I don't even think it's mostly black people going so hard with this ****??? It's fat insecure white girls with clear circle frame glasses and ugly pixie cuts, walking around in their floral doc marten boots, itching to go home and use the political buzzword they learned from a buzzfeed listicle on an unsuspecting target like this one
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She's an idiot for treating them like humans who deserve a civilized discussion. Ignore them and move on.
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Queen Meredith Grey stays winning and the fop triggered Twitter trolls lose
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god i hate these nasty poc, almost as bad as trump supporters
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Originally posted by Doc
Get this tea through your skulls and into your brains: - The majority of POC voted for Clinton in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Black women voted for Clinton at the highest percentages (94%) followed by Black men (83%)
- The majority of White people voted for Trump in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Reread #3. There isn't a single sector of the White demographic that majority voted against Trump.
Stop blaming people of color for racism, and stop blaming them for Trump's win. They were the ONLY people who came through for Clinton. Blame your White family members, and blame yourselves for not doing more to stop them.
Debate with your mothers. That's that on that.
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finish them
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Member Since: 11/6/2010
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Ridiculous, some black Americans seem to think everything is racist and it's pathetic.
Now white people can't use black emoji's WTF?
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Originally posted by Doc
Get this tea through your skulls and into your brains: - The majority of POC voted for Clinton in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Black women voted for Clinton at the highest percentages (94%) followed by Black men (83%)
- The majority of White people voted for Trump in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Reread #3. There isn't a single sector of the White demographic that majority voted against Trump.
Stop blaming people of color for racism, and stop blaming them for Trump's win. They were the ONLY people who came through for Clinton. Blame your White family members, and blame yourselves for not doing more to stop them.
Debate with your mothers. That's that on that.
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LOL at black people being blamed for Trump's win when more than half of white people voted for Trump, where's the logic?
White people love to blame others for things they caused.
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Originally posted by Doc
Get this tea through your skulls and into your brains: - The majority of POC voted for Clinton in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Black women voted for Clinton at the highest percentages (94%) followed by Black men (83%)
- The majority of White people voted for Trump in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Reread #3. There isn't a single sector of the White demographic that majority voted against Trump.
Stop blaming people of color for racism, and stop blaming them for Trump's win. They were the ONLY people who came through for Clinton. Blame your White family members, and blame yourselves for not doing more to stop them.
Debate with your mothers. That's that on that.
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Nice attempt at some self righteous clock (you forgot "white gays!!1"), but this is a complete non sequitur. If most ATRLers think that "SJWs" were too polarizing and off-putting in swaying people to their candidate* (which seems to be the point you're addressing), mentioning that those same people voted for the candidate doesn't address the point at all. That would be like if Little Hillsters said "Gosh, I liked Bernie before the primary, but his BernieBros really put me off, that's probably why he lost" "No! We BernieBros came thru for him, so it's not " It just doesn't address the point of criticism at all, and seems like you just feel triggered.
And just like you can generalize all the people hounding Ellen Pompeo as the POC who came through for Clinton, they're just as likely to be the millennials who never showed up I guess we'll have to ask everyone on Twitter and Tumblr whether they voted? Glad my people came through for Clinton though, but I already knew that
* And for the record, I don't even argue that "this is why Trump won!" There are a million of other, much more impactful reasons (terribly unlikable candidate outside of the solidly blue democratic base, with tons of scandals and a lack of trust, being branded as a continuation of the Obama years where people are feeling discontent, poor ground game, electoral college, etc). I don't think most of the "Whitelash" people really frequent forums to be put off by militant SJWs in large numbers (tho stories like this getting publicized has greatly decreased the amount of them even here on ATRL).
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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Originally posted by Doc
Get this tea through your skulls and into your brains: - The majority of POC voted for Clinton in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Black women voted for Clinton at the highest percentages (94%) followed by Black men (83%)
- The majority of White people voted for Trump in every single gender, age, and economic demographic.
- Reread #3. There isn't a single sector of the White demographic that majority voted against Trump.
Stop blaming people of color for racism, and stop blaming them for Trump's win. They were the ONLY people who came through for Clinton. Blame your White family members, and blame yourselves for not doing more to stop them.
Debate with your mothers. That's that on that.
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This tea needs to be quoted again for the people in the cheap seats
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Most of the people bitching probably didn't even vote.
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They're being annoying. But mess at her saying racism is "alive and well" on both sides.
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Originally posted by Cyanide
And honestly I don't even think it's mostly black people going so hard with this ****??? It's fat insecure white girls with clear circle frame glasses and ugly pixie cuts, walking around in their floral doc marten boots, itching to go home and use the political buzzword they learned from a buzzfeed listicle on an unsuspecting target like this one
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This is somewhat true.
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