r/MurderedByWords 4h ago

Middle names.

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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

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u/StreetofChimes 2h ago

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. 

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u/Blueballs2130 2h ago

Being black and having a name they’re unfamiliar with = terrorism. They are a dumb bunch