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Re:Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over T... by derwiki on Monday June 01, 2020 @10:58AM (#23379165)
The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967. It was meant to evoke that event, which could easily be called “fanning the flames.”
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Re:Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over T... by nailer on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:04AM (#23379250)
> The exact wording was a reference to what a police chief in Miami said in 1967 it was meant to evoke that event

Really? I'm pretty sure it was meant to /rhyme/.

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Re:Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over T... by cmurf on Monday June 01, 2020 @03:20PM (#23382546)
This is the same attempt at plausible deniability of Republican institutional racism since the Nixon Southern Strategy as clearly, undeniably, articulated by its inventor. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwa...

Trump peddled a racist lie and conspiracy theory for five years, before he was even in politics. Birtherism. And before that, the Central Park Five. And before that the federal lawsuit against him and his dad for discrimination in housing. It's not plausibly deniable. And this is the same thing.

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Re:Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over T... by nailer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:17AM (#23388510)
Exactly re: birtherism and Central Park five. Trump's racism is overt. Not secret messages.
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Re:Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over T... by gjeck on Monday June 01, 2020 @11:49AM (#23379830)
Can’t tell if you are trolling or not. Do some reading. https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/864818368/the-history-behind-...
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Re:Facebook Employees Criticize Zuckerberg’s Inaction over T... by nailer on Monday June 01, 2020 @12:09PM (#23380050)
If it's genuinely not obvious, I'm surprised you believe a conspiracy that Trump was secretly refering to an event most people have never heard of, rather than rhyming.
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