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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Late Night Open Thread: Therapy-Speak For (From) Republican Racists

Late Night Open Thread: Therapy-Speak For (From) Republican Racists

by Anne Laurie|  July 11, 20231:59 am| 40 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Post Racial America, Republican Venality

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‘Therapy speak‘ is the latest name for a very old game: What’s most important here is that *I* have everything exactly how *I* want it, and if you disagree, that’s a YOU problem.

‘Well, that’s just a name that has been given… ‘

Collins: "A white nationalist is racist, Senator."@SenTuberville: "Well, that's your opinion." pic.twitter.com/iTI4BgLaR0

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 11, 2023

From a long thread, Oklahoma School Superintendent finds history hurtful:

Ryan Walters just said he wants the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre to be taught in public schools but objects to the teaching that the event happened “because of the color of people’s skin.” pic.twitter.com/Jy3FNqxzjw

— 🔥Brianna Bailey🔥 (@briOKC) July 6, 2023

Walters said: "I would never tell a kid that because of your race, because of the color of your skin, or your gender or anything like that. You are less of a person or in or are inherently racist. That doesn't mean you don't judge the actions of individuals."

— 🔥Brianna Bailey🔥 (@briOKC) July 7, 2023

And if you’re a Republican, you don’t even have to be white to be a White Apologist!

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) says it’s “hogwash” when Democrats say his campaign message ignores U.S. history of racism:

“Good people — teachers, Chick-fil-A owners — came together to help me understand that if I took individual responsibility for myself, amazing things could happen.” pic.twitter.com/q21NU0z9TP

— The Recount (@therecount) July 10, 2023

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    July 11, 2023 at 2:28 am

    teachers, Chick-fil-A owners

    It’s come to this? One of these things is not like the other.

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack

    July 11, 2023 at 2:30 am

    Is that the same Tim Scott who used to talk about being pulled over repeatedly for driving while black? 🤔 Naw, can’t be.

  3. 3.

    piratedan

    July 11, 2023 at 2:36 am

    there are times I sit back and think about how the reality of the relationship between the media and the GOP bring us treasures like this.  I mean, they obviously don’t mean to display their complete cluelessness, their hypocrisy.  I’m sure that the GOP mean to come off all official and assured and how the least amount of latitude allows them to reveal just how corrupt, stupid and cruel they actually are.

    In many ways, its a blessing that they are so fucking stupid if it wasn’t also evident that they’ve corrupted a great portion of society to allow them to get away with this shit.

  4. 4.

    TriassicSands

    July 11, 2023 at 3:00 am

    Tommy Tumorville. [sic] [sick] [sickening]

    People actually voted for that.

    Tim Scott: “The truth of my life disproves the lies of the radical left.”

    Yes, Tim, one African American senator like you makes it clear that there is no systemic racism in America. In the sciences, both physical and social, one example is always sufficient to demonstrate a reality that applies to everyone, despite millions of counter-examples..

    Scott? Stupid or just dishonest?

  5. 5.

    Martin

    July 11, 2023 at 3:02 am

    @NotMax: Well, one of them is wise enough to choose a profession that doesn’t require working on Sunday.

  6. 6.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 3:16 am

    @NotMax: LMAO yes.

  7. 7.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 3:26 am

    Will somebody tell my pitbull not to chew up yet not eat her giant Milkbones? She chews them all over the carpet, eats them when she is hungry but otherwise leaves them to make walking barefoot extremely unpleasant.

    Weirdest dog we ever had. Nutzo pitbull, but lovely sweet kind dog.

    She never had Milkbones as a puppy. Only sticks. So she thinks milkbones are sticks.

    I think this dog actually thinks she is doing meal prep. Grind up the Milkbones. Create rubble. Eat the rubble when you are hungry. Otherwise save it for later.

    Unlike my stepdaughter who gave us this lovely dog, we don’t let pets go hungry.  My stepdaughter grew up in bad foster care and thinks I am nuts. Caretakers are vultures in her world experience.

    ETA When we vaccum up her ( dog)  rubble she looks at us like her heart is breaking. “This is my food and you want to vacuum it up? I believed you loved me.

  8. 8.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 3:34 am

    @sab:  She thinks every parent in fostercare is a leech, starving her foster kids to keep the household afloat.

    That is how she treats dogs. Our dog from her is happy to be ours.

  9. 9.

    SpaceUnit

    July 11, 2023 at 3:37 am

    Dems need to stay moderate and let the MAGAs just weird out into the void.

  10. 10.

    patrick II

    July 11, 2023 at 4:09 am

    @sab:

    Did you know that over the centuries dogs have evolved three muscles around the eyes that wolves don’t have?  Scientists believe they evolved to manipulate human emotional response.  Don’t worry, she knows you still love her — she is just making sure she gets more milkbones.

  11. 11.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 4:15 am

    I am very white ( Britsh and Irish ancestory. I have freckles!) and entitled. Family money and good education.  But still cannot see what these guys are driving at. I don’t want to run things. I have gone to mostly white schools, and every Black classmate I have ever had was substantially more intelligent than me and also better socially adapted.

  12. 12.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 4:19 am

    @patrick II: I do know that my dogs don’t care if I wear a mask over my nose and mouth, but they freak if I wear sunglasses. They read humans from our eyes while they read themselves from tails and smell.

  13. 13.

    Cathie from Canada

    July 11, 2023 at 4:25 am

    “I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?”

  14. 14.

    Tony Jay

    July 11, 2023 at 4:35 am

    @Steeplejack:

    The Guild of Chick-fil-A Owners explained to him that it was all the fault of the thugs raised on the Democrat plantations. Their wilfully uneducated thuggery, deliberately fostered by cynical Leftists as a weapon against Real Americans, left those brave officers no choice but to Protect & Serve by stopping and searching Tim Scott for thuggish sympathies. And since he was a clean-cut, patriotic boy who did his homework on time, those brave officers just let him go with a warning, which is how the system should work.

    And then the Chick-fil-A owners donated to his campaigns, which is also how the system should work.

  15. 15.

    eclare

    July 11, 2023 at 4:40 am

    @sab:

    If you will tell my pittie not to destroy absolutely everything she can get her teeth on. The latest is that she can open my bathroom cabinet doors.  Cotton balls and Qtips everywhere.  I found the empty razor pack in the living room, so far I have not found the razors (scary).  I ordered some of those “prevent the toddler from opening the cabinet” type things to use.

  16. 16.

    eclare

    July 11, 2023 at 4:42 am

    @Cathie from Canada:

    That seems so familiar, is it from a movie?  It’s driving me nuts!

  17. 17.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 4:51 am

    @eclare: My golden retriever ate some of those razors. In his case just tinfoil. Very lucky bad dog.

  18. 18.

    Cameron

    July 11, 2023 at 5:00 am

    I know it makes me a horrible person, but every time I hear Senator Tuberville’s name, this is all I can think of:

    https://youtu.be/7gSrUlyROkQ

  19. 19.

    sab

    July 11, 2023 at 5:02 am

    Very off topic.

    About five years ago I went to bank drive-in window. Guy in front of me was extremely morbidly obese. He climbed out of his car ( actually a cab) slipped on  puddle and went splat. His paperwork and shoes went flying. I was shocked. His bank telker was horrified. But she was stuck in her window.

    I jumped out of my car, helped him get on his feet, collected his paperwork, and then let him get on with his paperwork and resume his life.

    My bank teller was beyond impressed.

    Everytime I go to the bank she is there cheering me on. Weirds me out. I was just nice once in my life.  Not a good basis for morals.  I was good once

    ETA Gut this banker teller was amazing. Hope the bank knows what they have.

  20. 20.

    eclare

    July 11, 2023 at 5:09 am

    @sab:

    Let her cheer, makes her feel good.  And kudos to you for helping him.

  21. 21.

    Kay

    July 11, 2023 at 5:15 am

    Ryan Walters defended himself by saying that teaching that the Tulsa Race Riits were race riots is “literally CRT”

    He’s one of the “everything that makes me uncomfortable is CRT” ninnies, but there are a LOT of them.

    Can teachers get around these cowardly ninnies by presenting original sources?

    The Tulsa Historical Society has a whole Race Riots traveling exhibit and there was a state inquiry into the riots in 2001 – they produced a report which (of course) attributes the attack to racism

    It might be harder for dopes like this schools superintendent to attack teachers or schools if teachers are just presenting the work of the historical society or the government report, unless those sources too are “literally CRT”

  22. 22.

    Nukular Biskits

    July 11, 2023 at 5:20 am

    @TriassicSands:

    Tommy Tumorville. [sic] [sick] [sickening]

    People actually voted for that.

    The sickening part is that the majority of Alabama voters chose a know-nothing college football coach over someone who had an actual record of moving Alabama forward:  Doug Jones.

    But, hey, they really owned the stupid libs, hyuck!hyuck!hyuck!

  23. 23.

    Kay

    July 11, 2023 at 5:23 am

    Senate judiciary vote on the Supreme Court ethics regulation Thursday.

    It would require the Supreme Court to follow the same ethics regulations as all other federal courts. If that sounds completely reasonable and not something anyone who is not a crook should object to, it’s because it is.

  24. 24.

    eclare

    July 11, 2023 at 5:26 am

    @Nukular Biskits:

    I know. I had half hoped Bama fans wouldn’t vote for him.  I guess we found something that transcends football allegiances:  owning the libs.

  25. 25.

    oatler

    July 11, 2023 at 5:42 am

    @Cameron:

    Nice Dan Hicks groove.

  26. 26.

    p.a.

    July 11, 2023 at 5:46 am

    IIRC the largest single ethnic group in the US is (self-defined?) German-Americans.  Guess the Holocaust should be off-limits too?  Mustn’t be uncomfortable, after all…

     

    https://youtu.be/DMNJk1LNV0w

  27. 27.

    Layer8Problem

    July 11, 2023 at 6:20 am

    @eclare:  Yes, Office Space!

  28. 28.

    eclare

    July 11, 2023 at 6:36 am

    @Layer8Problem:

    Thank you!  One of my faves, but it has been a while since I’ve watched it.  Need to remedy that.

  29. 29.

    Kay

    July 11, 2023 at 6:50 am

    @p.a.:

    It’s just that there is a historical record. The nitwit schools superintendent doesn’t just have to pull this out of his ass relying on his personal (dumb) philosophy and/or Tucker Carlson. He could go to the Tulsa Historical Society exhibit or read the 2001 state report- photographs, property records, police reports, the records of the internment of the AA citizens after the riots. There’s court records because a white citizen had to vouch for the black citizens to be released from internment- transcripts.

    We don’t need his opinions.

  30. 30.

    Citizen Alan

    July 11, 2023 at 6:52 am

    @TriassicSands:

    People actually voted for that … over an incumbent who was famous for finally prosecuting the racist who firebombed black churches in the 60s!

  31. 31.

    Citizen Alan

    July 11, 2023 at 7:02 am

    @eclare: Perhaps the thing that repulses me most about Tuberville is that literally the only reason anybody knows his name was his initial successes at drawing blue chip AA football players to Ole Miss, apparently while concealing the contempt and hatred he secretly held for them.

  32. 32.

    BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️

    July 11, 2023 at 7:52 am

    Senator Ballcoach continues to be an embarrassment to my state.

    I got a guy in my office that continues to come to me EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. there’s a “newz” report on anything negative about Biden (which one? ALL OF THEM). He’s one of those guys that has had to settle on “BOTH SIDES!!!” b/c he knows the GQP is shit, but would rather gnaw his own leg off than admit that Dems aren’t the same. Going to have to find a creative, work-friendly way to let him know who he’s talking to…

  33. 33.

    sdhays

    July 11, 2023 at 8:00 am

    Didn’t Tim Scott get the memo that Chick-fil-a is “woke” now and needs to be boycotted?

  34. 34.

    SFAW

    July 11, 2023 at 8:17 am

    @BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️:

    Going to have to find a creative, work-friendly way to let him know who he’s talking to…

    Suggestion:

    “Listen, numbnuts, you may believe your bullshit, and other RWMFs may believe your bullshit, but I’m not a fucking moron. So take your lame-ass ‘Oooh, Demon-craps are Teh Evul’ bullshit and shove it sideways. Be glad that I don’t pound your [racist,]* RWMF ass into the ground.”

    Apologies if this is too mild-mannered.

    * I’m making a possibly-unwarranted assumption here, so maybe shouldn’t be included.

  35. 35.

    Albatrossity

    July 11, 2023 at 8:40 am

    @NotMax: Product placement requires you to name your sponsors.

  36. 36.

    EarthWindFire

    July 11, 2023 at 8:57 am

    @Kay: All of this. Also, teaching that a bunch of people burned down an entire community because reasons really isn’t the redemption they think it is.

  37. 37.

    JAFD

    July 11, 2023 at 9:58 am

    @SFAW: ​
    Or maybe you could ask him
    “Do you know the difference between a garbanzo and a chickpea ?”
    …
    “Donald Trump never paid to have a garbanzo on him.”

    ( That’s the worst GOP joke I know, offhand. )

  38. 38.

    BenCisco 🇺🇸🎖️🖥️♦️

    July 11, 2023 at 10:00 am

    @SFAW: If only LOL

  39. 39.

    khead

    July 11, 2023 at 10:42 am

    @TriassicSands:

    Scott? Stupid or just dishonest?

    This is the question I want asked.  Every time. When Tuberville started that shit the lady should’ve gone straight to “I’m sorry Tommy, but everyone knows what a white nationalist is, by definition. When you claim that a white nationalist is not racist… Are you lying? Or just plain stupid?

    Not holding my breath, but I am so fucking tired of bad faith arguments and answers from these folks.

  40. 40.

    VOR

    July 11, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    @Kay:  It’s just that there is a historical record. The nitwit schools superintendent doesn’t just have to pull this out of his ass relying on his personal (dumb) philosophy and/or Tucker Carlson. He could go to the Tulsa Historical Society exhibit or read the 2001 state report- photographs, property records, police reports, the records of the internment of the AA citizens after the riots.

    I had an otherwise intelligent co-worker who claimed the US Civil War was due to Lincoln’s authoritarian tendencies and certainly not slavery. I pointed out that several Confederate States left the Union even before Lincoln was sworn in as President. She had never heard that, wasn’t taught in her school. I brought up the Cornerstone Speech and the various declarations of secession by the Confederate States. Again, she was completely unaware of the Cornerstone speech and had never read any of the primary sources.

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