Fredo and Cuomo are both Italian-Americans. Is it coincidence? Why not just call Cuomo an idiot. Why compare him to anyone and if you do compare him, out of all the idiots ever, why choose the one who happens to be Italian-American. Also, Fredo was not hot-headed, that was Sonny. I’m not saying it’s racist but let’s not pretend that there isn’t a racial/ethnic connection being made. The real connection being made is comparing the Cuomo family to the Corleones.
If someone calls a greedy person who happens to be Jewish, Shylock, I think we should expect people to cry antisemitism.
I don’t watch CNN. And you should have read my entire post without anger. I didn’t say it was necessarily racist but the connections are there. I can call a big white dude a gorilla, and mean it as a compliment, but if I did the same to a big black man I can’t be shocked if people say it’s racist.
I don’t know the people who called Cuomo Fredo. I don’t know what they were really thinking. I’m not going to call them bigoted but I’m also not going to White Knight for them because of my personal political agenda.
Because it’s fun to watch the Italians go all Tony Soprano when you rip on their nationality.
Like all of the sudden they’re all mobbed up, weigh 250 lbs. and know where to hide bodies.
The micks and polocks don’t do that. They just act like they didn’t hear you then sucker punch you when you’re coming out of the bathroom.
If someone says pejorative things about Italians when he is really talking about Italian Americans, he isn’t referencing nationality since they weren’t born in Italy. He is implying that something about Italians is inherent and it doesn’t recognize borders.
The problem isn’t the existence of white supremacy or any other sort of exceptionalism. The current problem is that any said in contrary to some narrative gives way into charges of white supremacy and racism. And the problem is so widespread and so overused on people who are obviously not racists that is has watered the term down to near meaninglessness. If every time you speak, it’s interpreted as some signaling of white supremacy people soon stop listening.
To be called a racist is no longer a serious charge. Why? Because so many people have been called racists who are obviously not, nobody buys the charge anymore.
I mean, Candace Owens, who is obviously black is driven out of a restaurant by tolerant people calling her a racist, race-trader, etc. the accusation seems to lose all meaning.
I think the dam has broke on all this race-hustling the media and others have been putting immense pressure on has finally caved in. And nobody cares anymore.
Here’s a real question, for every charge of racism there has been say in the last year, how many of those claims have been actually true?
I don’t know and I am not going to ‘google it’ because I don’t believe there is a real number anybody knows.
I know people are sick of being called racists because they hold a different opinion and I think that’s the real problem. It’s a wall term used to shut people up.