Morning Joke:Scarborough says its irrational for people of color to feel threatened by Trump

[deminks]

https://thinkprogress.org/joe-scarborough-anand-giridharadas-fear-c52428f71fbc#.soue723a0



Donald Trump supports racial profiling, a Muslim registry, and a deportation force tasked with rounding up Latinos. One of his first acts as president-elect was appointing a white nationalist as his chief strategist.

But MSNBC host Joe Scarborough explained on Tuesday that people of color shouldn’t be particularly worried about any of this. Why? Because if Trump tries to implement discriminatory policies, Scarborough believes the courts will come to the rescue.

During a Morning Joe discussion with author Anand Giridharadas framed around Trump’s proposal to strip citizenship from political protesters, Giridharadas said that “for people who look like us, last Thursday was the first Thanksgiving we celebrated with a measure of fear about the year to come. Physical fear. Fear about what will happen to people who look like us and people of many other kinds in this country.”

(snip)

Giridharadas pointed out that “checks and balances” didn’t prevent torture, mass surveillance, internment, segregation, or slavery from becoming the law of the land at different points in American history. But Scarborough still wouldn’t back down.

“I just personally have confidence in the Supreme Court of the United States and Congress and the system of checks and balance in our Constitution that I do think that we don’t need to jump of windows,” he replied.

(end snip)

This from a white multimillionaire male with his sleeping partner at his side, the Supreme Court that he and his henchmen have all but destroyed is gonna save me from Trumpfenfurher. Up yours, Jerk.

[still_one]

1. That is what this country needs a white man telling a black person what they should feel

[JHan]

2. Can we use the word deplorable in this case or nah...??

and identity politics is the problem right?

Indeed.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Like the German courts came to rescue during the Third Reich?

It started with the judges being deferential and/or afraid of Hitler and his policies. He later replaced the judges with jurists who would rubberstamp Nazi "justice".


https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005467

[uponit7771]

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[leftynyc]

4. So glad I stopped watching that crap

Listening to a rich white man decide what people of color should feel is pretty repulsive.

[octoberlib]

5. The Supreme Court gutted the VRA and now Trump gets appoint his own toxic judge.

File Scarborough's remarks under white privilege and normalizing white nationalism.

[Gothmog]

6. I stopped watching this show a while back

Morning Joe is an idiot and needs to be ignored

[hatrack]

7. Yes, the courts will protect those shot dead in traffic stops, or in raids on the wrong house . . .

. . . or killed for driving while black, or walking while brown, or because Officer Friendly "felt his life was in danger", or because they walked into CVS and asked if they had sliced cheese.

Joe, you need to make sure that none of President-elect Baby Huey's pubic hairs are stuck between your teeth when you're on camera. Not a good look for you.

[safeinOhio]

8. and mothers of young women

shouldn’t be particularly worried about letting their daughter intern for Joe.

[KingCharlemagne]

11. You will learn to love your pussy-grabbing in the new order or you

can go to jail or face exile.

[shraby]

9. If he feels the need to say that, I would guess the opposite is true.

[KingCharlemagne]

10. People like Scarborough are the reason Communists developed Gulags - nt

[madaboutharry]

12. Joe Scarborough: Exhibit A in White Privilege.

He is so immersed in his white privilege he can not see the outrageousness of his thought process.

[JaneQPublic]

13. Bingo.

No doubt he believes POC will welcome being schooled by his pasty-white ass on the validity of their fears.

[Paladin]

14. Bullseye.

That's one of the main reasons I stopped watching the show, some time back.

[uponit7771]

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[Ilsa]

15. Msnbc should replace Joe and his sex partner with Giridharadas. NT

[Mendocino]

18. Dead Intern Joe

telling people who they should be scared of. Oh my!

[Solly Mack]

19. Says the privileged white man

[Johonny]

20. What about white middle class males...can we get scared of losing medicare, social security

food stamps, the first amendment....because they're all threatened Joe.

[TwilightZone]

21. Rich white guy says what?

I am a bit perplexed why anyone pays any attention to anything this clown says.

[summerschild]

22. It's amazing

that we can understand a word Joe says while his head is that far up his ass.'

[mulsh]

23. As a white man I love it when white men with TV shows explain how black people should feel believe.

n/t