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[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 93 points 1 week ago (11 children)

what is this “Michelle Obama is a man” obsession?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's not just Michelle. This is a very common racist meme against black women in general. It's widespread among fascists, etc.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/for-women-athletes-of-color-outsized-scrutiny-over-gender-is-nothing-new-historians-say

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 13 points 6 days ago

She's more of a man than they are, and more of a woman than they'll ever have.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it has something to do with Grindr popping off every time there's a conservative event.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

I first read about it, then finally watched the video.

The way he says this sounds comically feminine, it is only missing a little girl giggle at the end.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

She's a powerful black woman whom they dislike and so a lot of them have convinced themselves she's trans to make her even worse in their eyes and to try to convince others she (and her husband) are bad.

The sheer right wing derangement over the Obamas is fucking nuts

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

they also called her gorilla, and claim shes a man of the relationship.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Obama Derangement Syndrome

[–] grue@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 week ago

Or suck her cock

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember that the GOP and its base are so incredibly racist, that the fact we ever had a black president is quite literally traumatic to these buffoons.

They quite literally still cry about it and shake in fear every day, especially knowing it could theoretically happen again.

The real question is how are there still so many dipshits in America who aren't MAGA but still can't see its 10000000% a white supremacist movement.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

They have to add on that obviously Obama was not just black, and not just half black and half white, but he was also a foreigner, he was also Islamic, he was also married to a trans woman, that his kids were manchurian candidates specially trained by some sort of secret three-letter government agency in another country to destroy America and he was also some secret agent....

The stories they have made up about Obama elevate him far beyond the level of mythical. Their brains simply will not accept that he simply won the vote.

They have to wrap so many levels on top of it. It must have been a conspiracy. Otherwise, how could a black man have become president?

When you say, hey, you know, maybe it's a little racist to think this way. They go, oh, I'm not fucking racist. The guy works for the devil, that's all.

That fuse in their brain has been permanently short-circuited.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They're claiming Michelle is a trans woman actually. I don't care enough about their delusions to figure out how they think the kids happened

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Fixed, thank you.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I know it's kind of sad, but I feel like a lot of these people would be more mentally healthy if they would just go ahead and admit that deep down in their hearts of hearts, they "can't believe a n-word was president".

They want to say it with all of their soul, but their puritanical American self-repression is what's got them trapped.

They want to say they're not racist while hating black people with a deeply fundamental part of their spiritual makeup.

I'm sure they even see the craziness that the Orange Cheeto has been pulling and are deeply ashamed of it.

But because they can't come out to themselves and admit that they are racist, they hate black people. They want black people to be underneath them so they can feel better about themselves, they are venting that energy in wild and uncontrolled ways, and very intelligent people in the GOP are taking advantage of that.

Admitting that they are racist is part of the solution.

They could cure that racism afterwards, but first you have to admit that you have a problem.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

HEY! Only I'm allowed to talk about my mom that way, buddy. Even if it's all true.

[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

they had the same problem with Brigitte Macron nô?

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] pack@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

You could just attack her for being a creep who groomed someone 20 years younger into a relationship?

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ever notice that most of MAGA's material was cribbed from the liberal side? There was a running joke 15-20 years ago about Ann Coulter being a trans woman, due to her prominent Adam's apple. They applied the "I'm rubber you're glue" rule, and have been trying to make this a thing since then. As usual, they've missed what made the joke funny, as cringe as it was.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ann Coulter has an adam's apple? I missed all of that. Ben Shapiro is a trans man by the way, it's true.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

sorry, who? never heard of him.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's a fascist influencer/interneter. Very anti trans and all that, very pro israel. Anti anything left or woke, pro president. He's a piece of fucking shit.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sorry i was just negging him.

the worst thing you can say about these people is that you have no idea who they are.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Ha ha, I actually don't know who most of them are. I had no idea who Charlie Kirk was before South Park had Cartman be him that episode just a bit before kirk gave that full throated performance in Utah. I do happen to know Shapiro because of his Israel bullshit though.

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"When someone tells you who they are, believe them."

Why do you think they're so obsessed with who can use which restroom, obsessed with who may or may not be a man or woman, make posts about getting married or engaged during pride month, etc, etc, etc it's because they're all collectively jealous of the LGBTQ+ community and in many cases are closeted homosexuals/transgender. Which is an insult to the LGBTQ+ community and does them a disservice. They want that life so desperately but are terrified that everyone in their circle will ridicule them for it meanwhile those in said circle also want the same thing.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I would say it's their upbringing. They were told that gay people will go to hell and that gay people will all get AIDS and have horrible diseases and will suffer and everybody will hate them for being gay and that it's bad to be gay, or LGBT+ in any way.

Therefore, if you're LGBT+, you're a bad person.

And whatever horrible things happen to bad people is perfectly okay. It is their just desserts.

They have been programmed to treat LGBT+ people the same way they treat pedophiles.

Laugh at them and cheer when they die, pray for their death, keep your family and children away from them, physically attack them if they get near you, prevent them from getting jobs, make them feel unwelcome everywhere they go.

And because, at a fundamental level of their own hearts, they have designated LGBT+ people as bad people, they are perfectly okay with this.

The only real cure for it is to change how they see those people.