The White House's second intern class -----MAWA

[esquared]

Looks the same or worse than the previous year:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...b02e4b0f112dc9c8867?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313

Hey, make America white again, right?

It looks like this guy has the count about right.
America:
•38% People of Color •
31% White Women •
31% White Men
White House Interns:
•2% POC
•25% WW
•73% WM
This's what "#MAGA" looks like

Here's last year's thread
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/the-white-house-virtualy-all-white-summer-intern-class.2512253/

 

[UglyCasanova]

What percent of POC are Republicans

 

[IronWing]

Any one of those interns would cheerfully slit the throats of all the others to get ahead.

 

[dank69]

I find it hard to believe they got Trump to stand still long enough for a picture like this. Probably a cardboard cutout.

 

[Amused]

What percent of POC are Republicans

The backlashing irony in the question is duly noted.

The Republican party should really just come out and call itself the white nationalist party.

 

[Commodus]

What this says remains the same as last year: it's not that the Trump White House is only picking white people so much as that you'd have to be willfully ignorant or masochistic to be a non-white intern for an administration that wants to punish you for existing.

Also, @UglyCasanova -- while I don't have up to date stats on the percentage of POC who are Republican, about 73 percent of Republicans in 2016 identifed as white Christians where just 29 percent of Democrats identified that way. And something tells me the ratio of white Christian Republicans went up since then now that people have confirmed just how horrible Trump is toward anyone who isn't a white Christian.

 

[UglyCasanova]

confirmed just how horrible Trump is toward anyone who isn't a white Christian.

What’s he done that’s so horrible

 

[Sunburn74]

May be a selection bias. People of color don't want to work with these racist, sexist jerks. Except that one black guy. He's into it.

What’s he done that’s so horrible

For a start, he's called them rapists from shithole countries and is actively trying to destroy their families via mass deportations and travel bans. But he also of course assumes some of them are good people and so its ok.

 

[Thebobo]

The lone black guys head looks photoshopped no?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

What percent of POC are Republicans

To answer that question I must first gauge your understanding of basic concepts.

If, let’s say, you went to a gathering organized and attended by a large group of white supremacists and self proclaimed nazis who started marching, carrying torches, white supremacy flags and nazi flags and shouting anti Jewish propaganda and you decided to march right along side them would you be a very fine person or just another nazi?

 

[jman19]

What percent of POC are Republicans

Think about that for a minute.

 

[fskimospy]

What percent of POC are Republicans

This seems like an excellent point but maybe not for the reason you think.

 

[trenchfoot]

" A commitment to the mission of the Trump Administration."

I pulled that off of a Whitehouse.gov website. In large part it seems to answer the question of why there is a preponderance of white kids in the photo.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/internships/selection-process/

All I'm wondering about now is if those kids truly understand what the full scope of the mission of the Trump administration is. And if they do, well, shame on them.

 

[sactoking]

Hey, hey, hey now. The racial composition of that picture in no way proves or even implies that the composition or selection of White House interns is racist. It is a perfect sample of the Republican population.

Just because the racism within the Republican party causes their membership to reflect a demographic that appears racist does not mean they're racist.

Their racism means they're racist.

 

[UglyCasanova]

For a start, he's called them rapists from shithole countries and is actively trying to destroy their families via mass deportations and travel bans. But he also of course assumes some of them are good people and so its ok.

Or for a different spin he’s enforcing the law and border control.

To answer that question I must first gauge your understanding of basic concepts.

If, let’s say, you went to a gathering organized and attended by a large group of white supremacists and self proclaimed nazis who started marching, carrying torches, white supremacy flags and nazi flags and shouting anti Jewish propaganda and you decided to march right along side them would you be a very fine person or just another nazi?

Huh?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Think about that for a minute.

Ok I’ve thought about it, minorities dont vote Republican. You’re drawing conclusions from that saying it’s because Republicans are racist, which a lot are. But I don’t think that’s the full story do you?

 

[Commodus]

What’s he done that’s so horrible

Plans for the wall. Immigration bans designed to punish people based on ethnicity, not their actual threat. The whole anti-DACA push. Promoting attempts to undermine public education and health care in ways that punish minorities. An FCC that scraps affordable broadband programs. Either refusing to condemn or reluctantly condemning racist violence (frequently inspired by his administration), and even managing to All Lives Matter a Holocaust memorial statement. Going out of his way to whine about football players protesting racist police violence, even when there's just been a disastrous hurricane in Puerto Rico (oh, and a needlessly sluggish response to that hurricane). The attempt to undo Obama's lightened embargo on Cuba. I could keep going...

Basically, even those measures that aren't explicitly meant to hurt minorities tend to affect them the most, and Trump himself is clearly bigoted (if in a very passive-aggressive way). If you're a non-white person in the US, the President genuinely doesn't care about you and will not stand up for you.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Plans for the wall.

Explain this one. I see it as a collision waste of money but how is it hostile towards minorities?

Edit

Immigration bans designed to punish people based on ethnicity, not their actual threat. -
country of origin

The whole anti-DACA push. -
he pushed it back to Congress instead of an EO like it should have been done in the first place. How’s that horrible?

Promoting attempts to undermine public education and health care in ways that punish minorities. -
how so?

An FCC that scraps affordable broadband programs.-
not their job to subsidize the internet, how is this horrible. Poor whites exist too, and as a sheer number is larger

Either refusing to condemn or reluctantly condemning racist violence (frequently inspired by his administration), and even managing to All Lives Matter a Holocaust memorial statement.
- fair enough but all lives do matter

Going out of his way to whine about football players protesting racist police violence, even when there's just been a disastrous hurricane in Puerto Rico (oh, and a needlessly sluggish response to that hurricane).
- the whining about whether they stood during the anthem was retarded. The PR was needlessly sluggish? Should they have just drove caravans of trucks down?

The attempt to undo Obama's lightened embargo on Cuba. I could keep going...
- terrible policy on Trumps part, there is zero reason not to do business w Cuba

Do go on though, almost nothing you mentioned seems that terrible

 

[brycejones]

Deliberately obtuse ftw eh uglygoatboy?

 

[UglyCasanova]

Any specifics? No? Ok then

 

[IronWing]

Any specifics? No? Ok then

You were given specifics. They didn't meet your need to maintain your world view so you dismissed them.

 

[UglyCasanova]

You were given specifics. They didn't meet your need to maintain your world view so you dismissed them.

I asked about those and was called obtuse because there weren’t answers to my questions. The easy way out.

 

[Sunburn74]

Or for a different spin he’s enforcing the law and border control.

Travel bans are not enforcing the law nor is insulting haitians and africans and countless others. You asked what exactly trump has done to people of color. Start there. I know people directly affected by the ban. Legal, law abiding US citizens and permanent residents affected by it mostly because trump and his administration don't like non white, non christian people.

 

[UglyCasanova]

Travel bans are not enforcing the law nor is insulting haitians and africans and countless others. You asked what exactly trump has done to people of color. Start there. I know people directly affected by the ban. Legal, law abiding US citizens and permanent residents affected by it mostly because trump and his administration don't like non white, non christian people.

You’re correct that was in response to the first part of your comment regarding deportations.

 

[Commodus]

Explain this one. I see it as a collision waste of money but how is it hostile towards minorities?

Edit

Immigration bans designed to punish people based on ethnicity, not their actual threat. -
country of origin

The whole anti-DACA push. -
he pushed it back to Congress instead of an EO like it should have been done in the first place. How’s that horrible?

Promoting attempts to undermine public education and health care in ways that punish minorities. -
how so?

An FCC that scraps affordable broadband programs.-
not their job to subsidize the internet, how is this horrible. Poor whites exist too, and as a sheer number is larger

Either refusing to condemn or reluctantly condemning racist violence (frequently inspired by his administration), and even managing to All Lives Matter a Holocaust memorial statement.
- fair enough but all lives do matter

Going out of his way to whine about football players protesting racist police violence, even when there's just been a disastrous hurricane in Puerto Rico (oh, and a needlessly sluggish response to that hurricane).
- the whining about whether they stood during the anthem was retarded. The PR was needlessly sluggish? Should they have just drove caravans of trucks down?

The attempt to undo Obama's lightened embargo on Cuba. I could keep going...
- terrible policy on Trumps part, there is zero reason not to do business w Cuba

Do go on though, almost nothing you mentioned seems that terrible

I read this and all I see is weaseling, rationalizing, excusing.

All of these hurt innocent people. In some cases, they're designed to hurt innocent people based solely on their faith or ethnicity. And importantly, they make it patently clear that the Trump administration doesn't care about you if you're not white and Christian. Think about it: if you were a black person living in the US (as an example), would you hold out any hope that the White House would have your back? No, of course not. Like most of the world, you're eagerly awaiting January 2021 and the return to responsible leadership.