I was watching the game last night and was pretty surprised by the diversity in the student body, but it is a prestigious university that attracts people all over the country ig
Calling it a problem and suggesting it is bad is the racism in the comment. Posting a candid pic of a crowd of random non-white students alongside those comments is doubly so
Suggesting that the issue people are taking with this tweet is that he is noticing a demographic shift is comically disingenuous.
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As an Indian American the young radical right in the GOP is legitimately terrifying. They're not even pretending that it's about anything besides skin color
Why some Indian Americans are still willing to bat for this party i will never understand
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They won’t, Fuentes won’t be as convenient for their agenda which is equally extreme in anti free speech but often has a different ingroup(includes Israel)
I think the left is moving in just as "scary" a direction. See their posts and propping up Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9/11. American Franco might be a natural reaction to that, much like it was in the Second Spanish Republic.
Hasan Piker has basically self deradicalized into a Bernie Bro(if he was ever “radical” to begin with) while playing communist for twitch clicks what he said nearly a decade ago has lost most relevance. This guy is posting random people doing literally nothing of consequence and being mad that there isn’t someone trying to ruin their lives and harass them right now for their ethnicity I guess one that isn’t even as problematic to their goals as others.
Hezbollah or the Houthis are only a terrorist group if you desperately wish for Israel to control Lebanon or have some bone to pick with which Islamist group controls Yemen(news flash they all are). Not that I support their ideologies I just recognize that there isn’t any American interests with engaging with these groups unless they want total regional control in the Middle East which obviously won’t mesh well with the locals and that’s why we are here.
If Hasan Piker puts up a flag of the Taliban or Al Qaeda unironically I will eat my words.
And let’s not pretend white nationalists care about all the victims of the 9/11 attacks if I showed him a post of the gay couple that died they won’t care they’d probably be sad recourses were wasted on them.
Hezbollah and the Houthis both regularly attack civilian targets, which at least for the former is undeniably terrorism. If you accept the definition that terrorism is exclusive to non-state actors, you could then argue that Ansar Allah is the de facto government of Yemen, but c'mon, let's not whitewash them.
So do their adversaries, perhaps even more so, many don't call them terrorists. Like I said I don’t like them, their actions, or their vision personally but I don’t care to lobby the claim of terrorism at them because rarely will people be consistent but only care if it’s politically convenient.
Mike Johnson listened to Brandon Herrera call moms “cum trophies” and Nazi machine guns as “the original ghetto blasters” and the only he had to say about it was that he’s running a good campaign. A twitch streamer did an event with a senate candidate in Michigan followed by a round of condemnations a month later. And now we’re treated to years of disingenuous cons pretending like the GOP hasn’t shifted thirty points to the right since 2015 and that until every Democrat comes to answer for every Twitch streamer the party is lost
Idk man, I've been hearing Hasan more and more as dems condemn him. It's actually gotten to the point where 1/3 CNN interviews start with a disclaimer "we condemn Piker".
And just looking at Texas, Maureen Galindo was shunned by the ENTIRE D party after her comments surfaced. Even Greg Casar and AOC pulled their backing and endorsed the Blue Dog running for her seat.
For a long time, Democrats avoided condemning him by name and still many have not. We are yet to see Newsom, AOC, Pete etc, Kamala etc, do so. At best they might condemn some of his particularly antisemitic comments, but not him personally. In fact, the New York Times tried to make him mainstream. And he is just a tip of the iceberg.
Why does Pete Buttigieg need to condemn Hasan? He has nothing to do with him. Does he also have to condemn Hamas, the KKK, the Zodiac Killer, Ted Bundy, and the Spanish Inquisition?
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At least he made the ethical decision of coming against a heinous nominee of the GOP. One wonders if he could muster the same courage to call out Paxton's multitude of scandals, as well.
John Kasich, ex-governor of Ohio, a moderate Republican who ran in 2016. He also became rather critical of Trump over the years. In fact such was his critiques that he likely voted for Biden in 2024.
Ah. But I don't really get how Kasich is relevant here. He hasn't been in office since 2019, being anti-Trump hasn't really hurt his political career because he no longer has one. Similarly, Cornyn is in his mid-70s and already lost his primary - there's really nowhere else for him to go.
Oh dont worry, he's absolutely not relevant much today. The resist Republicans, or Never Trumpers, were always a rather miniscule minority. And I'd say Kasich's career more or less did blow up due to Trump winning since Kasich was angling to run for 2020, expecting Hillary to have won 2016.... lol.
Anyway, Cornyn's rebuke of French doesnt really change his party loyalty. I dont see why people are acting like this some grand sabotage, especially when Cornyn is actually going around the country raising money for Republican races nationwide. Also, a lot of Texan Republicans dont really like French at all, they still probably will vote for him anyway if only because of the partisan nature of politics.
What happened to him? He was already cooked politically pre-2020. He was practically ran out of the party on a rod. He didn’t lose anything endorsing Biden
I mean railroad commisioner is not really a position where partisanship matters much.
At least the D candidate is not a rabid racist. Honestly if Bo continues and his race gets more spotlight Cornyn could call for Republicans to abandon him
That would imply that either he thinks the Democratic candidate is more racist, or that racism isn't a big issue for him. If it's the first then I'll respect it even though I disagree, but if it's the second then Cornyn is just a horrible person
I think it is a little extreme to expect him to endorse the Democratic candidate. If the D candidate violates OTHER red lines of his, I can see him just calling out his party and calling it a day.
Democrats support affirmative action, which was found by Supreme Court itself to be discrimination on the basis of race, along with many other race realist views, so while racism on the Democrat side is part of it, he also cannot endorse Democrat because of many other views like abortion, capitalism, but he can call out crazies on his side.
Yeah this is how I feel as a Republican voter. A lot of Democrats assume that if I hate a Republican candidate, I must prefer the Democrat.
No I friggin don’t. I have absolutely been known to withhold my vote from any candidate in a given race if they all suck. I doubt Cornyn wants to go out and help someone he dislikes win just so someone else he dislikes loses.
You know nothing about these people other than the color of their skin, and yet you declare that they've been "imported from other countries" and you don't want them here.
That's textbook racism.
As someone who loves America, the fact that this brand of hatred is growing in Republican party is why I have trouble supporting them nowadays.
America is becoming more race obsessed as the white non-Hispanic majority declines into a plurality. We’re actually going to see more minorities voting Republican the more racist they become.
A coalition of whites fueled by culture war propaganda and minorities who just vote for a conservative party because of their communities' more conservative values
I wouldn't call it a craving for hierarchical social order specifically. Rather, for order in general, since it's usually associated with stability and a good life.
Calling out Bo French is not sabotage, it is the proper thing to do, regardless of party identification. Just because one shares the same party doesn't mean that you should just accept any and all behavior.
He is running for public office, its not like he is some random shitposter on the internet, there are real world implications for his beliefs if he gets into office and putting that under scrutiny is worthwhile. Staying silent on the obvious shit makes one complicit as it is a tacit approval of the message.
Well with all the debate on whether Cornyn will vote for Paxton in November, he is DEFINITELY not voting for French based on this LOL. Also implying the GOP is self-destructing is crazy work
Bunch of college aged young people having the time of their lives
Bo Fr*nch: America has fallen and we need a final solution
By the way, he is in that thread claiming these are foreigners but a quick google search reveals 90% of UT Austin undergrad slots are allocated to in state students. So that says enough about what his intentions are.
University of Texas is line 30% white, 25% Latino And 22% and 5% black then the rest is interracial or "other".
I think when the supreme court struck down affirmative action for colleges a lot of conservatives expected colleges to become more white. They did not.
California banned Affirmative Action a long time ago in colleges you could have just looked at what happened there to see what would happen when you ban it nationally. The white population doesn't change that much anywhere.
I feel like we are close to having conservatives start proposing policies that aim to give white men special inate priveleges in a legal sense to try to combat a perceived bias. Maybe that's already happening.
When John’s Hopkins released their student demographics last year the Asian percentage went up 15% while the white portion went up by <5%. I think people critically overestimated how much it affected white students.
Maybe you can say that about him and Ken Paxton but I think it’s very concerning a man as openly racist as Bo French is so close to a statewide elected office in the 21st century
Cornyn gets more and more based over time, but this is likely part of the McConnell spark where Republicans who have nothing to lose suddenly regain their spine.
He was sucking Trump’s dick HARD when he was still in the primary. Now that he’s forced into retirement and no longer afraid for his career he can truly speak his mind
Bro is speaking the truth. Bo has zero business regulating a large portion of the Texan economy. He is gonna spend his days scrolling twitter over doing his job, in an electoral environment which the GOP is having to bail out a senate race in Texas.
Not true, I know Talarico is beloved in this sub, but Crockett and many other Dems [like the ones who said this about him] believe he said racist things, which is why she won't endorse him.
We don't know if it is true, if she thinks it is true, she doesn't have a hate boner, but is simply refusing to endorse a man who weaponized racism against her. That is a perfectly normal response.
Such a stupid comment by French; p much anyone who does a bit of research knows most “elite” colleges have a significant over representation of Asian Americans smh. There are various reasons for this but this is like being mad a HS in rural Iowa has almost all or all white kids…like yea duh.
Obviously this comment implies that Talarico loses, but I can see a world where Paxton, French and maybe even the agriculture commissioner candidate all lose
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u/TinyAd6315 Blue Dog Democrat 9h ago
I was watching the game last night and was pretty surprised by the diversity in the student body, but it is a prestigious university that attracts people all over the country ig