Lol jesus christ, did you just learn the term “gaslighting” or something? Someone disagreeing with you isn’t gaslighting.

I’ve literally voted in every election since I turned 18 in 2004 and I’ve only voted dem, even though my state has gone red every single time. I think the Haitian story is a clear-cut indication of the racist rot in middle America. I’m not the scarecrow you’ve constructed in your head.

Safe to assume that you have partisan blinders on and will ignore all the circumstantial and tangible evidence in favor of your reality where 50% of voters are outright racists who wouldn’t bat an eye at openly saying the n-word.

Keep buying into the ragebait, anyone who disagrees with you is a racist gaslighter.

I spent way too much energy on you, have a good life.

Honestly I think it’s incredibly pathetic that you’re so dug in on this stranger saying a naughty word that you won’t even look at it objectively. In response to my detailed, objective breakdown, your only rebuttal was “gaslighter”. K. The embedded video player in the link above has a playback speed option, feel free to use it to slow the video down and see the truth of his mouth shape. Compare it to the “n” shape he uses when he says “in” several times. Or keep sticking your head in the sand and yelling “NUH UH GASLIGHTER”, idc. I think we’re clearly done here.

Edit:.honestly the slowed playback pretty much proves it’s an “m” in both sound and mouth shape.

Maybe he’s racist, I have no idea. But wouldn’t the far simpler route for a racist be to just keep engaging with the bullshit story and encourage the despicable racist acts that are already happening? A dog whistle by definition is subtle, coded. This isn’t that.

He’s clearly an objective, rational person with totally real friends

Sure. I’d still say that he just fumbled his words, as people do everyday. Importantly, it’s incredibly stupid to hyper focus on someone possibly saying a naughty word when the whole Haitian migrants story is full of real, undeniable, tangible racism. Missing the forest for the trees.

Did you …watch the video? His lips move together at the consonant in question. Lol but sure, you’re not just hearing what you want to hear.

Lol ok buddy. Everyone closes their lips when they pronounce an “m”, right? CLEAR AS DAY. keep fighting the good fight, hive mind

This is the exact same sort of shit conservatives do whenever Biden drops some elderly language. It’s gross, and needlessly desperate.

BINGO. the most frustrating part of dealing with these types of commenters is that they always lack the awareness to see that they’re operating in the same way that the bad-faith repubs do.

There’s so many real examples of conservative racism out there. You don’t need to make up fake ones.

Yep. Like, goddamn. Vance admitted he made up the story. Theres so much racism baked into this ENTIRE news story, that focusing on someone misspeaking is missing the forest for the trees.

Nah man, you’re hearing what you want to hear. Just look at his lips - they come together as they would with an “m” sound. The exact same way they come together shortly thereafter to say “migrants” properly.

Compare his mouth movement to when he says “in”, his lips do not move together.

Or keep hearing what you want to hear, I don’t care. Nothing I say will change your mind.

Sorry, thought you were the squid man. Regardless, on its face (without examining the video), his explanation makes more sense than a practiced media person blurting out the n-word on camera. Examining the audio, i’d say that I’m more confident that he’s making an “m” sound and not an “n”. Examining the video, it appears his lips close when making the m/n sound, indicating an “m” over an “n”.

That seems to be pretty objective. Most of the comments in this thread are getting high off of righteous indignation instead of thinking that, possibly, the conservative asshole didn’t blurt out the n-word on camera.

Yes, you’re definitely the objective one here lol

u/flyingsquid won’t look at this because of the dopamine hit he’s getting from manufactured outrage

“everyone in my echo chamber thinks the same as me” isn’t the own you think it is

I think you’re hearing what you want to hear and getting a hit of the righteous outrage. Misspeaking is a thing, dude. You say “plausible” sarcastically, as if it weren’t actually 100% plausible lol

Gonna invoke the hivemind rage and say that, upon listening w headphones, it does kinda sound like he’s saying “migr -” with a short “i” sound.

Now queue the downvotes, calling me racist, dumb, etc.

Uhhhh if she wants to keep feeding him “they’re eating pets” storylines for him to embarrass himself nationally, I’m on board

Nah. He’d be way skinnier if he were on stimulants.

You’re an unreasonable person, there is no point in continuing this conversation. You’ve got some growing up to do.

So you don’t know any repubs in real life?

It’s pretty disappointing to constantly see on lemmy “50% of the country are Nazis!!!” It’s a naive, cynical, and unrealistic viewpoint. You can believe that a majority of GOP politicians are evil without believing that half the country is evil. The world isn’t that black and white.

Unreasonable conservatives would paint you in a similar light. You have to leave room for differences in opinion and thought. Do you believe that your opinion is the only just and right way of thinking? If anything, that’s a quick route to a dictator.

Bingo