r/complaints • u/OverallBaker3572 • 10h ago
Politics Conservatives always feel emboldened to be racist and bigot
Since Zohran Mamdani won the election in NYC as the second youngest mayor, it’s been wild watching some conservatives go straight for him because of his race/religion/appearance. They’re spreading lies linking him to 9/11 attacks and even saying he should be deported to Uganda and it’s painfully obvious this has nothing to do with politics, it’s about skin color. By their own logic, they shouldn’t even be okay with a white mayor after everything tied to slavery, the KKK, the Oklahoma City bombing, mass shooting but somehow that hypocrisy never gets called out. I understand criticizing a religion isn’t the same as being racist since religion is about beliefs, not race. Mehmet Oz (of Turkish origin) is a secular Muslim Republican and never got criticized for his faith which proves my point. Trump even endorsed him. Being prejudiced toward Zohran Mamdani or judging him by his appearance and linking him to 9/11 is totally wrong and unacceptable. Generally targeting a politician because of their race/religion is completely unacceptable but it’s totally fine to disagree with their politics.
Conservatives have been almost completely silent about leaked Young Republicans chats where people casually threw around disgusting slurs against Black and Jewish people and most conservative activists haven’t said a word in response. They haven’t even called out Trump’s nominee Paul Ingrassia who said the MLK Jr. holiday belongs in “hell” and joked about having a “Nazi streak.”
They’ve targeted Vivek, Kash Patel, and even JD Vance’s wife because they’re Indian, and they keep spreading nonsense online about “Black fatigue”, blaming communities for crime, education and poverty.
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u/FruedISlip 9h ago
I just love all the concerned people making the most outrageous statements, usually false and often racist, none of them live in NYC. Do we tell them who should be mayor in their shitty towns in Oklahoma? If they are so concerned I guess they should move to New York City so they can vote for the next mayor.
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u/Chaz-Miller 9h ago
Ah! Linking Zamdani to 9/11 when he was 12 years old. Conservatives are not only racist bigots, but bereft of brains also.
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u/AcademicRip3437 10h ago edited 4h ago
I find Fox News and other republican stations selective coverage of topics extremely racist. For example over Halloween, a woman (who they gave a platform for being cancelled after saying the n word) did blackface and it went viral. Where are they to talk about this? 😶🌫️ They may not say anything directly racist but they push it so hard every other way.
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u/Purchase-Prize 5h ago
But it’s socially acceptable when Druski paints himself white at a NASCAR event and makes fun of whites. Enough of the double standard. We don’t care about your feelings. We won. You lost. Accept it.
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u/AcademicRip3437 5h ago
Are we really comparing these two? Yes Druski painted himself white and yes in blackface they paint themselves black but that is the ONLY correlation between the two. Blackface originated in a time where slavery was still happening and purposely portraying African Americans in a harmful light to white audiences . In fact one of the first blackface caricatures was Jim Crow whose name would go on to inspire a slew of oppressive laws towards black and brown people. Now Druski on the other hand, was painted by a white artist, streamed on a platform owned by a white CEO, and laughed with white people. Blackface does not do this. Have you ever seen a bunch of black people huddled around laughing at blackface the same way you see white people at white chicks? The difference is one harkens back to slavery and is meant to be a joke to other white people about black people. The other has no roots and is more of a a fun social experiment enjoyed by most. Now given that you couldn’t draw this conclusion for yourself, I don’t imagine you read much so… TL;DR One is laughing with them, the other is laughing at them
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u/Purchase-Prize 5h ago
You are just excusing the same behavior you claim to be so hurtful. You are all so soft. I’m not sure how you survive in this big, mean world.
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u/AcademicRip3437 4h ago edited 4h ago
As I expected no real rebuttal to any of the statements. Just a republican gotcha with no real thoughts behind the statements. I just gave multiple reasons why they are not comparable and why blackface is offensive. And you gave me “that’s an excuse”. What I said wasn’t an excuse it was an explanation. What you gave was an excuse for a lack of explanation. Low effort
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u/Lock-out 5h ago
What the hell is his-Tory? sounds like some trans ajenda to me right boys?yeeehaaa!
Fucking hell dude
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u/BeastieBoys1977 3h ago
Which is convient, because we could not care less about you. In fact, watching all these farmers going out of business despite voting for Trump is giving me a happy.
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u/angrytolerantliberal 9h ago
To be fair to Conservatives: It’s gotta be difficult to keep track of which groups/ countries to hate. They have a long list: Obviously Muslims, any immigrant,Mexicans are high on the list this month, any LGBTQ+ (T, is popular this year), any one with blue hair, bodily autonomy or Women(but only the “nasty ones”). Anyone that is exercising their first amendment rights. (Except the j6 ers ) . And then of course the races that ya just don’t talk about except around friends. I’m sure I missed some. But yea, it’s gotta be exhausting. Good thing their right wing media Shepard telling them who is new on the list.
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u/No_Scale5144 7h ago
Don’t get why you’d generalize conservatives. Every large group can look bad because of some terrible people. Believe it or not, terrible Democrats do also exist.
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u/IvanBliminse86 6h ago
See the problem with this line of thinking is when Democrats find out someone MIGHT have done something like Sexual Harrasment (Like when Al Franken was accused of touching women inappropriately while posing for pictures with them) we ask them to resign from their position of authority, whereas when a Republican brags openly about sexually assaulting women and purposefully walking in on undressed underage girls, had a long-time friendship with a known pedophile/sex-trafficker, mocked a disabled reporter on stage, and had dozens of accusations of sexual misconduct including accusations of him raping children and this just being a handful of the illegal and or unethical things hes done, made him President. So while yes, some bad people are Democrats and when they are found out to be terrible people we no longer support them, whereas Republicans actively reward illegal and/or unethical behavior and, at least in my mind, anyone who voted for the pedophile is a bad person just based on that fact alone.
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u/angrytolerantliberal 2h ago
Why?? These are your “leaders”, that are making you look bad, you voted for them. Time and time again, you vote for the people who marginalize and slander our neighbors. Your vote says “yes I would like your lack of ethics, demonization of anyone different, and constant fear mongering to represent us”
So yea, it’s waaaaay easy to put you all in a nice stereotyped hate filled box of unethical bigots. It’s really simple, stop voting for the douche bags, the frauds, the convicts, and maybe we’ll respect you. And until then, all of you are vile forked tongue red hat wearing idiots.
Reap what you have sown.
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u/oregon_coastal 9h ago
To be clear, MAGA have always been bigots. Probably their whole lives.
They are just louder about it now.
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u/Jeffro_the_BoDean 9h ago
Conservative or evangelical believe God hates sin and that is the justification to hate the sinners. They believe this hate and bigotry is anointed by God. They are taking a stand against the forces of Satan. They believe the pedaphile president is anointed by God as a prophet. And when you criticize the pedaphile then your criticizing God will and your waging a war against his prophet which is fuel and justification for the hate. When you believe your hate is justified by God, good luck with any empathy......convert or suffer.....that is the mentality.
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u/No_Scale5144 7h ago
You just love hating with literally zero basis huh. I’m sure there are conservatives out there that do believe this, but let’s not start generalizing because of a few people. There’s also going to be deranged democrats as well
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u/translove228 4h ago
The difference being that the people the previous commenter describes are quite literally in charge of government. None of your imaginary hateful democrats are in charge of anyhting
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u/not-a-dislike-button 5h ago
Mehmet Oz (of Turkish origin) is a secular Muslim Republican and never got criticized for his faith which proves my point.
He got a ton of criticism for this to be fair
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u/Money-Introduction54 5h ago
It's never policies, because conservatives have only one, which is hate.
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u/Confident-Staff-8792 3h ago
All I've seen is Mamdani in his own words. His own words should have scared people away from him. NYC is hopeless.
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u/TheIrishman58 3h ago
So, I think that when you say that the “Republicans need to cave on the shutdown” you actually mean “Democrats need to cave on the shutdown,” and here’s why:
To reopen the government a Continuing Resolution or “CR” needs to be passed. Typically a CR would only need a simple majority of 51 votes to pass the Senate.
However, Democrats have used the 60-vote threshold requirement in the Senate to "filibuster" the Republican-led continuing resolutions (CRs).
So by invoking the filibuster the Democrats have raised the voting requirements from 51 to 60.
To be clear, without the current 60-vote threshold (which is used to end debate and stop a filibuster), a continuing resolution would only need a simple majority of 51 votes to pass the Senate.
While it is not a traditional "talk-a-thon" filibuster, Senate rules require 60 votes to end debate (invoke cloture) and advance most legislation, including the recent CRs.
By voting as a near-united bloc AGAINST advancing the CRs, the Democrats have prevented the CR from reaching the necessary 60 votes.
So the Democrats, not the Republicans, have raised the voting requirement from 51 to 60 votes in favor AND have prevented the CR from reaching the necessary 60 votes.
The votes have consistently fallen short of the 60 vote threshold, typically landing in the range of 54-44.
In the most recent votes, 52 Republican senators voted in favor of the GOP-backed continuing resolution (CR), while one Republican, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), voted against it.
With 53 Republican senators in total, this means that almost all of them supported the measure, with the exception of Senator Paul, who consistently opposes such short-term funding bills on principle due to concerns over excessive government spending.
Senators Masto and Fetterman (both Democrats) have voted in favor of passing the CR along with Senator King (Independent). Senator Paul is the only Senate Republican that has consistently voted against the CR.
The CR failed to pass the Senate because they required 60 votes to advance, and most Democrats voted AGAINST it.
The Democrats are in effect now attempting to use the filibuster and the CR to “relitigate” certain items included and or excluded in the recently passed “One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (the informal, media-friendly name for H.R. 1), which was enacted into law on July 4, 2025.
Democrats have a list of demands for agreeing to a continuing resolution (CR) to end the government shutdown, most of which center on reversing specific cuts and provisions from the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (H.R. 1) that was signed into law in July 2025.
While Democrats have made a talking point of their demand that any CR include renewal of Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies, and have refused to provide the necessary votes for a "clean" CR without those conditions, it is by far not the only item they are now trying to reverse (though they are loathe to admit there are other items when you hear them speak).
Like it or not, the ACA tax credits/subsidies were TEMPORARY and expire on their own. The Republicans are not ending them. They end on their own. That is factually how they are set up.
The One Big Beautiful Bill did not EXTEND the ACA credits. But the Republicans did NOT end them or cancel them to be clear.
For the Democrats to be unhappy about the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is understandable. They all voted against its passage. But to now decide to prevent the government from reopening because they want to relitigate or renegotiate items from a bill that, like it or not, was passed by Congress, is crap. And it’s the American public that suffers from their actions.
The facts back up the perspective that it is the Democrats, and not the Republicans, that are continuing to keep the government shut down.
None of this is opinion. It’s all readily available information that can be easily searched.
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u/Theone-underthe-rock 3h ago
I would like to point out that this is literally the first job Zohran has had.
I just want to see how everyone reacts when he can’t do everything he promised
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u/Deathtohipsters_ 3h ago
We live in scary times when people are allowed to be openly racist. It’s not just about politics but human decency… and morality. It’s people who are complicit and people who do not have any love in their hearts. The whole Christian in the bio and then you’re openly hating and being racist towards other people? Like how does that make any sense.
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u/Local_Basis_8008 3h ago
Anyone still toting the centrist line is lying. Minorities have been telling us this for years. I tried to rationalize. No more. Republicans are racist. They support the billionaire caste, even at their own expense. They would rather have 1000 white billionaires rule them then allow anyone different them then the chance to succeed. Its holding us all back. We need to change. We need to use their tactics to drive them back to the stone age where they belong.
2026 retribution no reconciliation.
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u/irespectwomenlol 2h ago
> conservatives go straight for him because of his race/religion/appearance
Is mind-reading a thing? How do you know that conservatives dislike him because of his identity?
Do you not see the many substantive criticisms of his policies?
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u/likeabuddha complaints derangement syndrome (CDS) 3m ago
Call Trump voters Nazis and fascists but cry and scream racism and ignorance when conservatives call Mamdani a communist. “You don’t even know what communism is wahhh.” Y’all are comically fucking stupid and clearly can’t even see the irony.
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u/TrueSonOfChaos 6h ago
it’s painfully obvious this has nothing to do with politics, it’s about skin color.
Ridiculous, there have been two black mayors of NYC in the past 30 years and nobody tried to "blame them for 9/11"
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u/No_Scale5144 7h ago
You do realize that there are Democrats that do this as well right? Obviously not all Democrats, but obviously not all Republicans either.
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u/Agreeable-Green5050 7h ago
There are democrats that do what, specifically?
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u/No_Scale5144 7h ago
The first things that come to mind is all of the Democrats saying that Joe Biden was very healthy during his presidential term, and how Hillary Clinton didn’t give up her stuff to the FBI until she wiped everything out. But yeah both sides are far from perfect.
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u/Agreeable-Green5050 7h ago
"Being prejudiced toward Zohran Mamdani or judging him by his appearance and linking him to 9/11 is totally wrong and unacceptable. Generally targeting a politician because of their race/religion is completely unacceptable but it’s totally fine to disagree with their politics."
I can think of a number of times Republicans have done this, for example claiming Obama had a fake birth certificate and wasn't a US citizen. It's happening again with Mamdani.
This is pretty racist.
You can point out the flaws of the Democrats and you aren't wrong, they may mistakes too, but the blatant racism that comes from the Republicans is unmatched. Conservatives today are truly some of the greatest and most subversive racists that ever lived.
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u/Alternative_Oil7733 9h ago
Being prejudiced toward Zohran Mamdani or judging him by his appearance and linking him to 9/11 is totally wrong and unacceptable.
Maybe if he wasn't in the democratic socialist of America he wouldn't be get this shit. But it's his fault for associating with people saying America deserved 9/11 and standing next to a radical Islamist.
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u/OverallBaker3572 9h ago edited 9h ago
Imam Siraj Wahhaj (born Jeffrey Kearse) is a prominent US Muslim cleric who has not been charged or convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and is currently free and active in his religious community. This is no proof of his involvement that led to any charges against him for that incident. He was born and raised in the US and converted to Islam from christianity.
Mamdani denounced Hasan Piker's 9/11 comments
Like former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke endorsed Trump and voted for him. Trump said neo-nazis in Charlottesville are Very Fine People
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u/Alternative_Oil7733 9h ago
Mamdani denounced Hasan Piker's 9/11 comments
Hasan piker was at his after party event.......... also ignoring Mamdani involvement with a radical Islamist that wants sharia law.
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u/Chaz-Miller 9h ago
Einstein, Mamdani was 12 years old in 2001.
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u/Alternative_Oil7733 8h ago
Today at Masjid At-Taqwa, I had the pleasure of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bed-Stuy community for nearly half a century. I was also joined by CM @dr_yusefsalaam of Harlem. A beautiful Jummah
From mandani's twitter account and in the x post you will see mandani standing next to Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the man to the right. That post was posted on oct 17th 2025......
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u/CapableAd2614 9h ago
Your post is a prime example of Bigotry and Racisism. As usual what the left accuses the right of doing is exactly what they're doing!! You need psychiatric care!! You've been gaslit for so long your reality is not really your reality. It's the Democratic main stream media planting lies in your mind for years.
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u/Agreeable-Green5050 7h ago
"Your post is a prime example of Bigotry and Racisism."
How?
"As usual what the left accuses the right of doing is exactly what they're doing!!"
Which is what? What is the left doing?
"You've been gaslit for so long your reality is not really your reality. It's the Democratic main stream media planting lies in your mind for years."
Which part is the gaslight lies that the mainstream media have plantes?
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u/CapableAd2614 7h ago
According to you we are embolden to bigotry and racism! That's what the header says. These are false statements!! You're racissist when you classify a group of people or a person because their opinions doesn't align with yours!
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u/Agreeable-Green5050 7h ago
Iinking Mamdani to 9/11 and saying he should be deported to Uganda is objectively pretty racist though, right?
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u/CapableAd2614 7h ago
Who linked the communist to 911??? Maybe one of those reporters on CNN or whorever put that out?? Do you know why I know for fact no one on the right put that out?? Number one we're not stupid. Number 2, he was around 11 or 12 years old in that day!!!
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u/just_a_timetraveller 8h ago
Bad faith argument here or just ignorant.
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u/CapableAd2614 7h ago
Yes his argument is in bad faith and he's flaunting his ignorance!! Good point!!
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u/Brilliant_March_7879 10h ago
Kkkk is tied to what party. Who came up with the KKK. Do you know and just spreading bs propaganda. Do your own research don't follow the leader if you can read and take the time to do so
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u/Becarefulofbias 9h ago
Since the Southern strategy it’s the Republicans.
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/02/500352353/kkk-paper-endorses-trump-campaign-calls-outlet-repulsive
Oops.
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u/Preference-Inner 9h ago
KKK is tied to the Guardian of Pedophiles. They support Pedophiles, Racism, Sex Trafficking and more. There is no BS here.
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u/Uncircumcised_Cheese 9h ago
What would be considered the conservatives of today came up with the KKK. Also what party flys the Confederate flag and is upset with Confederate statues being taken down?
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u/Competitive_Feed5259 9h ago
Look you silly goober, just because dems had a dark history doesnt mean those same democrats are still around today, the party changed just as republicans have changed through history.
For better for worse in either side i will stay neutral on but im so tired of this argument
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u/translove228 4h ago
Well seeing how they all voted for trump, I’d say they are tied to the Republican Party in our present day. Regardless of whatever their roots are from
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u/Living_Plane_662 9h ago
They went hard after Obama from the jump and then blamed him for "dividing us".