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CNN apologises and bans conservative commentator after racist remark made on air. (www.thejournal.ie)

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Later, Girdusky retaliated in a post on X, saying: “You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke. I’m glad America gets to see what CNN stands for.”

Ah yes, once again, when they get caught out being shitbags, "iT wAs JuSt A jOkE!!!"

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Harris was right, these are very unserious people. They seem to spend their entire lives making "jokes".

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

So was Hillary. These people are deplorable.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

They have become so obsessed with triggering people for reactions they eventually forgot what a joke actually is.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi"

It's not false.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Also, who is he referring to?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Nobody. He's just playing victim.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Apparently you can’t go on CNN if you make a joke

Then what's the punchline, asshole? Jokes have punchlines. So what was it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

If we form a line to punch him in the face, would that qualify?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The punchline is that in the end white people are largely fine with terror attacks on brown people.

And that punch is killing hundreds every day with your taxpayer money.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 days ago (1 children)

By 'conservative commentator' they mean former writer for Richard Spencer, well known um... yeah, fucking Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Another thing to note about him: Girdusky is also listed as one of the board of advisors of American Moment which is a group that's listed by the Heritage Foundation as a Project 2025 partner

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't just racist, it was a threat.

He said to Hasan that he hoped his pager didn't go off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Avoiding the obvious issue here that this is a terrorist threat based on a terrorist attack by an US backed terrorist state that got endorsed and cherished for its "sophisticated" terror attack instead of condemning the terror attack as being a despicable act of terror.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago

Sounds like NewsMax just got a new talking head.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Of all the people to make such a sick comment to, and try to be slick about it, he said that shit to Mehdi Hasan. The sharpest journalist and interviewer of our time.

Never should have had that Nazi fuck on in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Conservatives are literal monsters

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

People who want to split hairs on the term racist give away their bigotry they're trying to defend. Theres a few in the comments. He's a bigited asshole of some form for sure. But when you expend so much energy nitpicking "aha, but not racist, specifically." Yeah, that also makes YOU an asshole too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Good for CNN.

[+] [email protected] -45 points 6 days ago (3 children)

We’ve reached a point where, whenever I see someone called a racist, I assume it’s a false accusation - and after reading the article, my suspicion is usually confirmed. The term has been so overused that it’s lost much of its meaning. What he said was needlessly personal and inflammatory, but I don’t see the racism that so many others here seem to.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Would he have mentioned a beeper if the recipient was a white Christian? It hasn't lost any of it's meaning it's just that some people are incapable or unwilling to recognize it unless it's backed by a nazi symbol, white hoods, or overt calls for racial violence. Your inability to recognize reality does not mean reality ceases to exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

"needlessly personal" hmm. I wonder what he was referring to that made it so personal. Hmmmmmmmmm. Was it perhaps his race?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Is it not exactly the other way around? I see so many actual racists that they don't even feel ashamed anymore. Of course, I call much more people racist because there are way more openly racist people! Stop being racist and then you don't get called a racist by the public.