He's also a racist douchebag!
MATTHEWS: You got to talk like a firebrand because if you‘re carrying their fight for them, they‘re going to like you. You know, a lot of white people root for black athletes because they‘re winning for the home team. People are quite willing to pick up black heroes, if they‘ll win for their side.Really, where does one begin? Is it conflating a man running for president with paid entertainers like athletes? Is it the implicit assumption that the "home team" is a possession of white people, and not African-Americans? Or can't one parse the statement? I mean, as a paragraph, it's like a pure diamond, a perfect distillation of racism and privilege.
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Chris Matthews: Not Just a Misogynistic Douchebag
He's also a racist douchebag!
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MATTHEWS: You got to talk like a firebrand because if you‘re carrying their fight for them, they‘re going to like you. You know, a lot of white people root for black athletes because they‘re winning for the home team. People are quite willing to pick up black heroes, if they‘ll win for their side.Really, where does one begin? Is it conflating a man running for president with paid entertainers like athletes? Is it the implicit assumption that the "home team" is a possession of white people, and not African-Americans? Or can't one parse the statement? I mean, as a paragraph, it's like a pure diamond, a perfect distillation of racism and privilege.
Here's the video:
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