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00:40It has a cumulative effect, I think.
00:43This isn't simply a one-off, and we are often tempted to think about these things as a one-off.
00:48I think that's part of the reason that the image itself was taken down.
00:52But if we put them in their proper context and we think about the history of attempting to position Black people as less-than-people, what it does is keeps alive those attitudes.
01:08And it lets those individuals know that they are not alone and thus can be emboldened to engage in this sort of racist speech and racist decorum.
01:17And so it continues to roll back every bit of progress that we've made, whether that came through federal legislation or the changing of hearts and minds,
01:29to show that there are people in our society who do not consider others to be human.
01:34Trolling is 100% out of control in the political landscape.
01:46You know, trolling isn't new.
01:48Social media allows it to happen with a different scale and different impacts.
01:54And then there are the opportunities that people have to take that and sort of replicate it in their day-to-day lives.
02:02But trolling is behavior that has been common to politics for so long.
02:07You can see that in the history of political cartoons, in the antics that legislators and lawmakers used to do to one another.
02:15So this is a common practice. I think the problem here is that this trolling is particularly depraved.
02:25It is designed to put people in what many consider a dehumanizing light.
02:31...
03:23I don't really know that we can expect oversight in the sense that we've been used to it, to hold to our standards of morality and propriety when it comes to this administration.
03:39But then I also think really critically about the team around him because this president isn't acting alone.
03:45So I do see this as part of a larger strategy and one that is designed to normalize our focus on the means and things that are less important than other issues.
03:58So Tim Scott is, like Barack Obama, a Black man.
04:11There is certainly some similarity that he shares when people encounter him, and maybe he feels compelled to speak on that.
04:22But it is interesting to me that he did not directly say to the president that this is inappropriate, that this is uncalled for, that this is embarrassing, that it is, in fact, an outrage.
04:35He said that he hopes it it's fake.
04:40So if there's anything to say, I think that Tim Scott's words are pretty empty and hollow.
04:46We know that when you put people in these caricatures, we call it dehumanizing them.
04:51We know that when you put people in these caricatures, we call it dehumanizing them.
05:16But I hold that these individuals, whether they are former presidents or immigrants who have come to this country looking for a better life, don't stop being humans.
05:27And what we need to think about is what it means about the character, the mindset, and the consciousness of the person who actually creates and posts these sort of images.
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