Originally posted by Omega Visioni agree about the coon part... was going to point that out but you beat me to it
Coon is actually a word used in academic circles to describe a certain portrayal of black people (along with Mammy, Uncle Tom, and Pickaninny). Look up the Plantation School. Coons are senseless comic relief black characters who by virtue of their stupidity and laziness are completely harmless to white people (to be contrasted with the Uncle Tom and Mammy, who are helpful to white people, and the buck, who is a danger, especially to white women).I guess she's calling Carson a clown.
As for the cause of the furor, Carson is an idiot if he doesn't know the difference between the Nazi Hackenkreuze and the Hindu/Buddhist swastika. You can easily ban all Nazi symbols without banning the swastika as a whole.
still arguably somewhat racist imo, as it reflects the tribal 'with us or against us' mentality of the 'black community.' anyone who steps out of line or questions the black orthodoxy is a coon... just a way for black ideologues to use the legacy of white racism to rear in their own people.
but as for the swastika... didn't the romans use the swastika too? i think it was used outside the nazi regime by europeans for a while... the nazis just tarnished it by using it too effectively in their propaganda as a symbol of their ideology
yea... no i think it goes a bit deeper than that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Greco-Roman_antiquity