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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vance-racist-jokes-trump-rally-stop-getting-offended-rcna177711Vance says 'we have to stop getting so offended' when asked about racist jokes at Trump rally
The Ohio senator said he hadn't heard the remarks from the comedian who called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” while adding that people need to lighten up.
Oct. 28, 2024, 5:10 PM CDT / Updated Oct. 28, 2024, 7:54 PM CDT
By Alec Hernández and Dareh Gregorian
Sen. JD Vance said Monday that while he hadn't heard the racist jokes made by a comedian at his running mate's New York City rally the previous night, he thinks Americans need to "stop getting so offended."
"I’m just — I’m so over it," Vance said after an NBC News reporter asked about the inflammatory remarks about Latinos and others by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, the first speaker at former President Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Vance doubled down when asked again about the racist comedy set following his speech Monday night in the southeastern Wisconsin town of Racine.
“A comedian told a joke, and I don’t think that’s news worth making,” Vance told a local reporter.
“Maybe I’m old fashioned, or maybe I just grew up with a grandmother who had an especially foul mouth. But you know what I do? You know what I do when I think a joke is dumb or not funny? I don’t laugh,” Vance continued.
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Raven123
(6,515 posts)PeaceWave
(1,421 posts)At that point, they can release the long-rumored behind the scenes footage from The Apprentice.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)He was saying jokes to Kevin Hart which were very racist. We need to ban comedians who do this type of jokes as a country. Maybe congress should get off their butts and pass a law.
PeaceWave
(1,421 posts)jimfields33
(19,382 posts)PeaceWave
(1,421 posts)jimfields33
(19,382 posts)underpants
(189,695 posts)Mopar151
(10,245 posts)She can do both!
BlueKota
(4,140 posts)And hey Cringerella, if the shoe fits wear it.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)You specifically said they were 'her' children.
lame54
(37,754 posts)unblock
(54,905 posts)Right-wingers have the thinnest skin and take offense to everything, even imaginary things, but here they are telling victims of bigotry how they should be reacting.
jimfields33
(19,382 posts)BowlerBob
(42 posts)I will not stop getting offended.
Easterncedar
(4,146 posts)I plan on getting more and more offended every time until these jackwads are gone for good.
Klarkashton
(3,237 posts)What did they think he was going to say?
ThePartyThatListens
(340 posts)This election cycle's October surprise.
Kamala Harris' campaign should send Trump and his kronies a bouquet of flowers.
Blue Owl
(55,782 posts)Mossfern
(3,654 posts)That's what abusers say.
La Coliniere
(1,354 posts)people without consequences. Effing sick.
Vogon_Glory
(9,746 posts)mores in stride. In fact, I think they get offended, and more than a few get physical about it. And frankly, I don’t blame them
Why should other ethnic groups be forced to eat (excrement) in public?
Diamond_Dog
(36,463 posts)would be the first one to bawl about “keeping things civil” if someone made a crude, nasty, insulting joke about his orange Lord and Master.
Dem4life1234
(2,530 posts)When you mention the fascist word to them.
They can dish it out but won't take it.
Rebl2
(16,010 posts)won’t be offended if I call him and other maga deplorable?
Maeve
(43,179 posts)Only cares when it touches him
Kid Berwyn
(19,730 posts)Which, for the Turd Reich's future Führer wannabe, is a big deal.
doc03
(37,634 posts)an all white audience of bigots like to hear. That is what Trump's base is deplorable. I am a white Democrat in a sea of
Trump people I hear that language every day. I think that is the image they wanted to project, it fires up the base.
tulipsandroses
(7,095 posts)His mixed race children will come home upset, that someone said something ugly about their race, discriminated against them or thought they were treated unfairly. I guess he will tell them not to be offended. He's tired of it. Dad doesn't want to hear it.
Cha
(309,221 posts)Dave Bowman
(4,886 posts)Jersey Devil
(10,407 posts)Says she had "an especially foul mouth". What kind of a guy disses his Granny?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(120,948 posts)vanlassie
(5,925 posts)“We have to get used to being called
facists? “
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(120,948 posts)Hillbillies are often accused of having incest. Is he okay with that?
LiberalFighter
(53,544 posts)My mother had eleven siblings. If there was ever an environment lending itself to derogatory language they would be it. Not the case though. They pretty much got along and worked together.
louis-t
(24,129 posts)couch fucker. Ask him if he's offended when someone calls fat orange fuck a fat orange fuck. And a pedophile. And a felon. And anti-semetic. And a shitty 'businessman'. I'm getting way too worked up over this asshole.
Ocelot II
(123,950 posts)Says every bully everywhere.
Is that what he'll tell his mixed-race kids when they come home crying because some bully made a "joke" at school about their mother or their race? "Suck it up, kid, they were just kidding. Where's your sense of humor?"
haele
(14,080 posts)....you won't be offended if I call you a weirdo REMF Nazi bootlicker hypocrite snowflake with mommy issues?
Just asking. Since it's all just silly words - a joke - why should you be offended?
Haele
no_hypocrisy
(50,954 posts)On April 4, 2007, during an on-air discussion about the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship, Imus characterized the largely black Rutgers University women's basketball team as "rough girls" in a comment on the players' tattoos. His executive producer Bernard McGuirk responded by referring to them as "hardcore hos". The discussion continued with Imus describing the women as "nappy-headed hos"[50][51] and McGuirk remarking that the two teams looked like the "jigaboos versus the wannabes" as mentioned in Spike Lee's film School Daze, apparently referring to the two teams' differing appearances.[52][53]
In the immediate aftermath of the remarks, public outrage was directed at Imus and WFAN. Howard Stern discussed how he had heard Imus make racist comments that were directed at a black female co-worker while the two were working at WNBC. Management was aware of the comments at the time but had done nothing. Stern's co-host Robin Quivers confirmed that assertion and added that she had once been the target of Imus's racist remarks herself.[54] Imus dismissed the controversy at first, calling the incident "some idiot comment meant to be amusing".[55] He also stated that "nappy-headed hos" is a term that rap artists use to refer to black women.[56]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Imus
Lulu KC
(7,646 posts)Dem4life1234
(2,530 posts)Betcha he would be the first to pull the reverse racism card these idiots love to spew had it been a non white comedian poking fun of white people.
He's simply not vice presidential material, he will be a heartbeat from the presidency if God forbid they win and he's acting all nonchalantly. Soulless couch humping druggie baby creature.