• JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    He is racist, but not clever in any way, I think he meant a made up word in his bullshit accusation, I donā€™t think he was trying to be racist here.

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      1 year ago

      Someone else said it and he repeated it, or someone else wrote the tweet. It was absolutely intended to be racist.

    • Triple_B@lemmy.zip
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      1 year ago

      Yall know rigger is a real word right? Like, I work with a group of people explicitly called riggers. They rig stuff up. Use cranes, chain falls, shit like that?

      Trump is using a dogwhistle though.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah itā€™s also a common term in the bdsm community for people who like tying people up. But he definitely isnā€™t referring to them.

        Some people donā€™t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to dog whistles.

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        1 year ago

        Fair point, but I guess I meant, itā€™s a word that doesnā€™t have a definition attached to it that has anything to do with how he used it.