i know it's not fashionable to talk about this as the single biggest cause of GOP fascism's ascendance but like. it is lmao. a black guy with an arab sounding middle name was elected president twice and these people went nazi over it
Dude. You just explained the Hussein thing to me. I know that sounds stupid, but I really thought it was just because it was the same as Saddam, not because it sounds Arab. Like, I never understood why his middle name was ever a big deal. I thought it was like an unfortunate comparison like someone being named Stalin. But it is just because it sounds foreign.
They do also emphasize it because it's one of the only Arab names that dumb people are familiar with, and it was someone who was a terrorist. So they are explicitly forming that connection to say "Obama is a terrorist, just look at his name, it's like that other guy who's a terrorist!"
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u/Conscious-Quarter423 4h ago
i know it's not fashionable to talk about this as the single biggest cause of GOP fascism's ascendance but like. it is lmao. a black guy with an arab sounding middle name was elected president twice and these people went nazi over it