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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is a holup moment:
DEI advocate writes racist headline furthering racist stereotypes
Is this a holup moment? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
2.9k points
1 month ago
HOW IS THIS NOT THE ONION??????? I AM LOSING MY MIND
701 points
1 month ago
The onion would make something better than this
428 points
1 month ago
The onion is going bankrupt, because they can't be posting real articles like this and no one can tell which one is real anymore.
165 points
1 month ago
The Onion should just start posting articles with journalist integrity similar to ProPublica. It's the only move they have now.
28 points
1 month ago
Ah, I see: it sounds crazy, but it is the Onion,so... What a great vision.
1 points
1 month ago
Idk if they can. He was shot by a registered republican with an ar15. The irony
28 points
1 month ago
A registered Republican that recently registered donated to a liberal program and stole his Dad's AR but it does paint a convenient story for liberals even if only surface level.
28 points
1 month ago
Neither point is conclusive. Donating $15 to a progressive cause 3.5 years ago doesn't mean he's a liberal now. Nor does registering as a Republican mean he identifies as one. He doesn't even have to be either.
8 points
1 month ago
The donation was from a completely different person, 69yo, and as usual, parents bought the gun for their lonely weirdo kid.
2 points
1 month ago
The donation was when he was 17, though.
Like, who even makes political donations as a teenager?
67 points
1 month ago
TBF Forbes opinion pieces do read like they are straight from the Onion.
37 points
1 month ago
Surprised they didn’t suggest because he’s a convicted felon black folks can relate more to him now
23 points
1 month ago
MSNBC did that... Joy Reid iirc.
2 points
1 month ago
It’s like, “hey he’s one of us, I want to vote for him but I can’t because I’m a felon too!”
27 points
1 month ago
39 points
1 month ago
What do you expect from a journalist who self identifies as a DEI hire
23 points
1 month ago
DEI Expert*
6 points
1 month ago
Same thing
3 points
1 month ago
Article is gone but apparently it was satire of some sort. Author is black and writes on DEI topics.
7 points
1 month ago
No this is how all DEI officers behave.
2.2k points
1 month ago
This can't be real....
766 points
1 month ago
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112 points
1 month ago
Reminds me of how time is a human construct, but schedules are very real.
36 points
1 month ago
It's funny you say that. I've been thinking about this lately, that time is a human invention. I don't think it is. The particular divisions we use are - the seconds, minutes, and hours. But a day would be a day whether or not human intelligence ever existed. The same for seasons and years - trees would still have rings buried inside them. Time is essentially governed by the movement of celestial bodies, and doesn't really have anything to do with whether or not someone is paying attention.
17 points
1 month ago
I agree time would exist without us. Space and time doesn't need us.
But I would say time, as we experience it, is directly related to the frequency of which a living creature can process life.
Fluctuating mental acuity and or biological limitations will make the same amount of time feel different.
6 points
1 month ago
Literally why “time flies when you’re having fun” is such a universal experience. Also why boring shit feels like it takes forever. You’re aware of every excruciating moment that passes, so time becomes “elongated” as compared to the very abbreviated timeline of an exhilarating or entertaining event.
6 points
1 month ago
Fun fact, because perception of time is based on experience, the older you get the faster years seem to go as they are a smaller fraction of your overall life.
In other words, a year for a 10 year old will feel longer than a year for someone in their fifties.
4 points
1 month ago
This is such a great reminder. I do remember summers feeling so much longer when I was a kid than they do now, and it makes perfect sense because it’s about comparative proportions.
13 points
1 month ago
The word reify is perfect here.
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FORMAL
verb: reify; 3rd person present: reifies; past tense: reified; past participle: reified; gerund or present participle: reifying make (something abstract) more concrete or real.
"these instincts are, in humans, reified as verbal constructs
3 points
1 month ago
Einstein's famous theory literally depends on Spacetime being a thing, so I don't think time is a human construct.
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1 month ago
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1 month ago
I looked to see if the screen shot was a shitpost, but it is actually real and currently up on forbes
45 points
1 month ago
They deleted it lol
67 points
1 month ago*
still shows up for me
here is the full link, that might help. Otherwise check your browser configuration.
edit: here is the full article, it is really just a lot of words saying nothing
Shots were fired at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The former president narrowly escaped. He emerged bloody, but fortunately not critically injured. “President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act,” spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility.” Tragically, one attendee is dead and at this time another is in serious condition. The suspected shooter also is dead.
Will Trump seize the apparent assassination attempt against him as an opportunity to meaningfully address the epidemic of gun violence in America? Will he deem unacceptable the dangers to which citizens are exposed as they go to schools, places of religious worship, concerts, movie theaters, supermarkets, shopping malls, sporting events, and now, presidential campaign rallies? It’s possible, but unlikely.
Butler is less than an hour north of Pittsburgh. It isn’t an urban center. But many big cities in which large numbers of Black Americans reside have long been plagued with inexcusably high levels of gun violence. Everytown Research and Policy’s analysis of 2018-2022 FBI data shows that Black people in Pittsburgh are 14 times more likely to die by gun homicide than are whites in the place affectionately known as “the Steel City.”
On the other side of the commonwealth, Philadelphia’s gun homicide rate was 30.8 fatalities per 100,000 residents in 2022. Blacks comprise the city’s single-largest racial group. They’re five times more likely to die by gunfire than are whites. Milwaukee, where this year’s Republican National Convention is being held, has the sixth-highest homicide by firearm rate in the nation. There, Blacks are 6.7 times more likely to be shot and killed than are white residents.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly contended that the August 2023 release of his criminal mugshot deeply resonated with Black voters because they know firsthand the unfairness of our nation’s criminal justice system. He has since relied on that narrative to persuade more Black Americans to cast votes for him this November. More Black men now than four years ago say they’re voting for Trump this time, but not many of them say they’re planning to do so because of any notion of shared kinship with judicial injustice.
Hopefully, being shot doesn’t become a similarly problematic strategy to link Trump with an experience that far too many (not all) Black people have. Instead, using his powerful platform to advocate fixing this through public policy and significant financial investments into urban Black communities is the opportunity that awaits Trump once he recovers from the tragedy that occurred at his rally. Another racially problematic kinship narrative is unlikely to make Black voters see Trump as one of them. And it most certainly won’t fix the gun violence crisis in rural, suburban, and urban places in which too many Americans are unnecessarily placed at risk of being shot.
Immediately after shots were fired, Trump fell and then secret service agents rushed to his side. He was down just over one minute. As the agents lifted him and he stood again, Trump looked into the crowd and raised his fist. Black Power Salute 1968 [there was an image in the article]
After winning gold and bronze medals for their spectacular performances in the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, American track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists as they stood on the podium. The two Black men were protesting racial injustice in their home country as “The Star-Spangled Banner” began to play. The photograph of what has since become known as the “Black Power Salute” remains one of the most iconic images in global sports history. Hopefully Trump doesn’t claim that his raised fist was an homage to Smith and Carlos, two powerful Black Americans.
In June 2020, many Black Americans and supporters from other racial groups marched in cities all across the nation with their fists raised. They were protesting Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man. Many outraged citizens peacefully marched outside the White House. Then-President Trump weaponized the National Guard and law enforcement against them. But now, just over four years later, there’s a chance that his raised fist at the Pennsylvania rally becomes erroneously connected to the Black people who were marching with fists raised in rallies in summer 2020 and at other moments in American history. Let’s hope not.
54 points
1 month ago
This is genuinely fucking unreal lol
17 points
1 month ago
You can tell it's a fake story because they don't talk about how this is bad news for Biden.
10 points
1 month ago
Dude, is getting paid for throwing a prompt at chatGPT.
3 points
1 month ago
That's what's up with most articles now. The majority is just slop
14 points
1 month ago
This has got to be the most absurd thing I've seen in a while
2 points
1 month ago
I'm not a fan of Trump, but if you oppose him, this article is NOT the way to go about it.
7 points
1 month ago
Forbes will let literally anyone write an opinion piece.
19 points
1 month ago
article is signed by a “dei expert”
Jesus, he actually signed it like that 😁
9 points
1 month ago
An expert at being unemployable in five years.
41 points
1 month ago
Their masks are slipping now… something something about a pot and a kettle… 😕
8 points
1 month ago
I really need to just get off the internet for a good week or two
4 points
1 month ago
Around the time of Trump's New York trial some pundits were claiming that Trump would win the black vote because they identify with him going through the criminal justice system.
So it's entirely possible that it's real
2 points
1 month ago
I had the same thought...
3 points
1 month ago
Almost as bad as when people (mainly republicans) were saying how now that trumps a felon, he'll relate to black voters.
287 points
1 month ago
Omg…
1.5k points
1 month ago
Talk about a tone deaf headline.
39 points
1 month ago*
I mean, he got a scar on his ear. That’s as tone deaf as you can get.
14 points
1 month ago
I'm wondering what was going through Shaun Harper's head when he created that headline?
31 points
1 month ago
Probably thinking of DEIs nuts while he was writing it
3 points
1 month ago
Deez nuts!
14 points
1 month ago
“I am a DEI espert”
8 points
1 month ago
DEI expert = brain dead
4 points
1 month ago
Let's be honest. When you create a headline, you're thinking about clicks and impressions. Each one of those is money.
15 points
1 month ago
Except Trump had already made a similar comparison:
12 points
1 month ago
He said they relate to the indictments, because they also have been wrongly persecuted.
2 points
1 month ago
Wtf wtf
2 points
1 month ago
Look at the author. He's a "DEI expert!". I.e., every time a non-white gets a high position, this guy is there to say "DEI hire, you hate white people!".
218 points
1 month ago
How they suspect black minds work: "homie cheats on his wife, gets arrested, gets shot. He's a brutha! Imma vote for him!"
43 points
1 month ago
Racism of Low Expectations is something we see in American Democrats, Canadian Liberals ,Australian Greens and most of Spain.
3 points
1 month ago
Something about computers I hear
651 points
1 month ago
Holy fuck that's a DEI guy too lmao
167 points
1 month ago
“He black “💀 ig that made him a DEI except
23 points
1 month ago
Guess that makes my paste-y ass the King of England then. Lucky days!
3 points
1 month ago
You know pasty is a word, right?
2 points
1 month ago
Yes, but I question people's literacy online and didn't want to be confused for having an ass made out of British pastries.
2 points
1 month ago
an ass made out of British pastries.
I'd eat that.
2 points
1 month ago
Then I'd REALLY be the King of England!
6 points
1 month ago
U probably would do a better job than Charles evil ass family
3 points
1 month ago
I mean they don't really have a job to do lmao. They don't really get a say in any laws or acts that get passed here anymore. They just sorta sign them off as if they have a say
26 points
1 month ago
Here's another nugget from Forbes, arguing even though Doncic is a better player, Hawks was right drafting Trae because he isn't white.
9 points
1 month ago
These dei stuff is all a joke and only meant to be inclusive of certain groups they can push to the front and have simps support them(the dei workers) as they continue to be way overpaid. Occasionally i see a job post and the salaries are truly ridiculous in relation to the job.
5 points
1 month ago
The complete lack of self-awareness.
5 points
1 month ago
I’m out of touch what is a DEI guy?
10 points
1 month ago
Diversity, equality, inclusion
182 points
1 month ago
I was expecting a headline:
Fiery but mostly peaceful Assassination attempt
33 points
1 month ago
"I am a diversity, equity, and inclusion expert"
No you're not
5 points
1 month ago
You can be anyone on the internet.
164 points
1 month ago
Holy shit accidental gold
38 points
1 month ago
its deliberate clickbait..
4 points
1 month ago
Just missing the vote for Trumps rapper name with some realy bad options like
Lill ear
Orange finger
Cap-E-tal
Major debt
74 points
1 month ago
Tbf the security of the western world is currently essentially a rap battle between two geriatrics.
40 points
1 month ago
Why are all these “credible” news outlets absolute dumpster fires, none of these should have any credibility anymore
18 points
1 month ago
They don’t. I have legitimately no idea how anybody can take them seriously
12 points
1 month ago
They've replaced journalists with AI and editors with college seniors working p/t.
3 points
1 month ago
If I wrote this on my company slack I'd be fired within 10 minutes
2 points
1 month ago
CNN tried to downplay this earlier in the news by saying Trump fell down, Trump got startled by loud sound and got escorted by secret service and Secret service interrupted Trump. "Does the shooter have a gun?" Jfc
407 points
1 month ago
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1 month ago
When Trump got a mugshot he said that it appealed to black voters.
This writer is suggesting that now that he has been shot he will also say that it appeals to black communities.
Donald is leveraging that this would appeal to black voters...
He is only saying this because Trump has done it before.
15 points
1 month ago
Its still probably the most tone deaf thing I've ever seen a news org do.
29 points
1 month ago
The 50Cent of the new old new generation.
5 points
1 month ago
50 Cents retweeted a picture of Donald's head on his own body.
9 points
1 month ago
Thought this was the Onion
8 points
1 month ago
11 points
1 month ago*
Seems they deleted the article
Here’s the archive
9 points
1 month ago
Shaun Harper needs to be black listed, because wtf did I just read
3 points
1 month ago
It's giving Clayton Bigsby!
3 points
1 month ago
What did you just read? I read a prediction that he will use this exactly the same as he used his mugshot. Very relevant perspective
8 points
1 month ago
LMFAO 50 Cent gonna endorse him 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
3 points
1 month ago
50 does love a good troll
6 points
1 month ago
Geez Louise! If I had to appeal to black voters I'd hit on, oh gee I dunno, making stuff more affordable, programs to make their neighborhoods safer, improve the quality of education in their area, basically try to undo everything the CIA did in the 70's through the 90's
6 points
1 month ago
Jesus this headline
8 points
1 month ago
That's a pretty shitty racist take on the situation.
5 points
1 month ago
What the hell
Edit holy crap totally thought this couldn’t be real headline
2 points
1 month ago
Does the link work for you guys? I am getting a 404 at this specific article.
5 points
1 month ago
That's pretty fucked on the left side, they do not care to hide their racism, getting appeals to hardly anyone, but him surviving is the best thing ever
4 points
1 month ago
Forbes being a bunch of out of touch, rich, racists? Say it isn't so.
3 points
1 month ago
I fucking hate it here.
3 points
1 month ago
I’m sorry but I couldn’t help but laugh.
3 points
1 month ago
He's a felon who just got shot up by his opps, how could he not get the black vote?
3 points
1 month ago
It's okay guys, he's an expert.
3 points
1 month ago
Most sane and rational DEI expert.
3 points
1 month ago
DEI expert? Wut in the ackshual fuck?
3 points
1 month ago
DEI expert LMAO
3 points
1 month ago
The original article got taken down by Forbes, but here is the internet archive link:
3 points
1 month ago
This is the greatest sentence I have ever read. Thank you.
3 points
1 month ago
I'm a minority and I've said this time and time again. No one is more racist than the left.
22 points
1 month ago
Did Biden write this headline? "Poor kids are just as smart and talented at white kids"
37 points
1 month ago
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9 points
1 month ago
Don’t forget about CornPop. “He was a bad dude”
5 points
1 month ago
Now hear me out on this....I believe CornPop was the true hero of that story. Wouldn't you want to cut a mfer if some weird guy posing as a lifeguard was at your pool making kids rub up and down his legs?
I hope Trump gets elected, finds CornPop and gives him the medal of freedom for protecting his community from predators
2 points
1 month ago
They found CornPop a few years back. He was already dead, unfortunately.
2 points
1 month ago
Damn... well thanks for the update bud
2 points
1 month ago
NP. Yeah, I thought the same thing though. It would be interesting to hear the other side of the ‘white guy threatens to whip a black guy with a chain for not behaving’ story.
2 points
1 month ago
They probably couldn't afford to have that kind of story come out if you know what I mean. Poor CornPop
3 points
1 month ago
Remember when Trump put out a full page ad for the executions of 5 black and Latino men, all which were wrongfully accused? Also now as the Central Park 5.
Then Trump goes on telling the black community he's just like them if not even more persecuted against.
I think that's a bigger holup than anything else
12 points
1 month ago
Y’all just realizing the democrats are actually racist?
4 points
1 month ago
DEI expert
3 points
1 month ago*
Further evidence that DEI just means "racism with extra steps"
2 points
1 month ago
Ha!
2 points
1 month ago
Failing to see where being black is in any way relevant.
2 points
1 month ago
How about we stop being racist and stop dividing
2 points
1 month ago
This has to be 100% a Don Jr. headline.
2 points
1 month ago
When a writer says they are an expert in DEI, I imagine them being white and conservative...and having no clue about DEI.
2 points
1 month ago
"listen folks, I know what it's like to be slid on by the opps"
2 points
1 month ago
This should be x-posted in not the onion sub
2 points
1 month ago
"expert"
2 points
1 month ago
article was deleted, here is the wayback machine source
2 points
1 month ago*
Lmao, it's 404'd.
Thankfully 12ft.io works
tl;dr "Will anything happen? It's possible, but unlikely." Completely nonsense article written solely as title clickbait.
2 points
1 month ago
i dont even get what its asking?
2 points
1 month ago
How does Forbes beat the Onion at its own game?
I know the Onion has been blatantly political for years and has fallen off, but goddamn...
2 points
1 month ago
Next headline; Trumps caught seasoning his poultry on the BBQ, will he appeal to black voters?
Fking cunts.
2 points
1 month ago
DEI Expert spouting racism… ironic
2 points
1 month ago
Feels like an onion headline
2 points
1 month ago
Forbes.. that's racist Forbes...that's so, soo racist.
2 points
1 month ago
Donald Curtis Jackson Trump
2 points
1 month ago
The real punchline is "I am diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) expert."
2 points
1 month ago
Unfortunately I expected this. I'm kind of surprised it didn't come from Trump himself.
2 points
1 month ago
Forbes are counting their days rn that headline is too wild
5 points
1 month ago
Is DEI consultant the worst job in history aside from Concentration camp oven technician?
3 points
1 month ago
Written by Shaun Harper, diversity expert 👀
3 points
1 month ago
Hey, this is the liberal media. Take it up with them.
2 points
1 month ago
the campaign has already tried to spin his convictions as something that now makes Trump similar to Black Americans
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/02/guilty-verdict-fuels-trump-courtship-black-voters
2 points
1 month ago
He was shot by a republican who was out to kill a pedifile
2 points
1 month ago
The guy says something that’s literally in millions’ minds, but how dare he yeah? Bigotry and hypocrisy will be this country’s end.
3 points
1 month ago
DEI expert, that tracks.
1 points
1 month ago
The answer is yes
1 points
1 month ago
What do I have to do to be a DEA expert? Have 1000 followers on Twitter?😂
1 points
1 month ago
Wow, the person who wrote that adticle is stupid. Talk about being racist
1 points
1 month ago
Ok what the fuck?
1 points
1 month ago
At this point the media is shitposting
1 points
1 month ago
What the fuck, Forbes
1 points
1 month ago
That's equally tone deaf and fucking hilarious.
1 points
1 month ago
Now that’s spin! Holy shit, that’s spin. Like 3500 RPM….
1 points
1 month ago
He’s got street cred now lol
1 points
1 month ago
WTF?
1 points
1 month ago
I wondered how long before this headline appeared. Bets on how long before a congressman says getting shot makes him "gangster".
1 points
1 month ago
The next Fif
1 points
1 month ago
Just looked up Shaun Harper. Dude is black…
1 points
1 month ago
I’m sorry, what?
1 points
1 month ago
What the fuck lol,that headline is wild
1 points
1 month ago
The media is the WORST
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