You are a joke.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

I don't think that Trump referring to her as Pocahontas (who is the only famous female native American) after she erroneously, or falsely, said that she is part native American. Her story about being told that by her family is a convenience. She was making these claims well into her 40s and beyond.

It's not a racial slur toward her IMO, and neither is it detrimental to Pocahontas. It's taking the mickey out of a long standing and public mistake.

Optimistic as ever

Is it racist, maybe, maybe not, but its very demeaning and disrespectful to a person, to refer to them in such a manner rather than by their own name.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Racist or not, It'd be like harassing a woman by constantly calling her Rosa Parks or Laquisha if she stated that she has some black ancestry. I mean what's the point? Sure some might get a thrill out of it because they see it as being anti PC or anti progressive, but it's still pointless and mean and that shouldn't be credit to a person, or something to applaud. It's just one of the many nods and winks to a section of supporters who get off on or are comforted by demeaning certain groups of people.

It can be funny or unfunny depending of what your sense of humour is, but it's a core part of how he communicates to people about various groups and is very deliberate.

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"You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968, you can't say "n*gger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*gger, n*gger."

— Lee Atw@ter, Republican Party strategist in an interview in 1981

That appears to be how political strategy and policy still works in the US today really. Of course it's mirrored on the left to some extent too. Trump's constants nods and winks and snipes at certain groups are the social component of this really, comfort to those uncomfortable with pretty basic and benign difference really. It's not particularly well disguised and is a cheap and easy way to get people onside as we see here.

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Atw@ter :-D