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Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by bigyabai on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:55PM (#44814570)
This is revisionist history and you clearly know you're wrong. There's no point in arguing with you if you're going to provide examples that you refuse to acknowledge in-context.

January 6th was a major event that was incited by the incumbent president, calling upon his most violent supporters. This went beyond "multiracial wackjobs" and included organized militias that existed for the sole purpose of starting a race war. You can validate these claims by looking up The Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in their own words. Here are a few direct quotes to help you get into the mind of the prosecution during the aftermath:

  Bobby Kinch: "Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man can get!"

  Kyle Chapman: "We recognize that the West was built by the White Race alone and we owe nothing to any other race."

  Wendy Rogers: "the American people are being oppressed by Jewish tyrants."
The people there were insecure about being white. They wanted to support their president because they had more in common with racial identity than rule of law. If you cannot accept that explanation as a bar-certified lawyer, then I suggest you stop reading news altogether and save yourself the trouble of learning anything.
Re:Palantir Is Extending Its Reach Even Further into Government by rayiner on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @02:55PM (#44816105)
You can pick isolated examples from any political group. Here’s Obama with Louis Farrakhan: https://www.ajc.com/news/local/could-this-long-lost-photo-ha.... Look up what he said. Look up what elected Democrats in San Francisco have said about Asians: https://www.kqed.org/news/11896759/sf-school-board-member-al.... You’d think that, in the current climate, Democrats of all people would rethink the notion that pointing to some racists or antisemites in a crowd of people is somehow reflects on the whole crowd: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/nyregion/columbia-pro-pal...

But to circle back to the point. There’s no arguing with NPR listeners who insist that the Trump GOP, which won near-parity among Hispanics, nearly doubled its vote share among black people, and won 40% of asians, is meaningfully based on “racism.”[1] A meaningfully “racist” party does not lead to a decade of racial depolarization. If you have to come up with the concept of “multiracial whiteness” to reconcile your theory with the facts, that’s because your theory is a joke.

There’s myriad valid criticisms of Trump and the Trump GOP. But this one is painfully dumb, and it persists only because it feeds into a self-flattering white-savior narrative in which NPR listeners are enraptured.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/behind-trump...