America has a problem: GOP Congressman Chalks Beyoncé’s Historic Grammy Win Up to ‘DEI’
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Just more supporting evidence that anti-DEI is more about being Pro White.
Do you also need more supporting evidence that water is wet?
Just waiting for them to start demanding "Reparations for the white man!"....
Then Elon can finally rest assured knowing he's made the US feel like South Africa.
Did you miss the thing yesterday about resettling white south Africans?
It's Pro White Male to be precise
Always has been
(White person gets a job or wins an award)
GOP: I see no racism here
(Anyone but a white person gets a job or wins an award)
GOP: Reverse racism!!!
This is basically their "all fronts" approach to walk back perceptions. It's about controlling the narrative so that it's ingrained in the psyche that there's an airs of illegitimacy around anything a minority does.
It's entirely rooted in their supremacist playbook.
Always has been. This place sucks.
I'm not really a fan of hers, but I'm pretty certain she won a Grammy because she's fucking Beyonce not because she's black.
These white supremacists are thrown into confusion whenever a white person isn't chosen for anything at all. Which would just be pathetic, but they run the country so it's a problem.
It's freezing cold outside right now!
Damn DEI controlling the weather!
"America has a problem?" , Trump and his minions are feeding every Democratic institution into the woodchipper. American has cut off tens/hundreds of millions of real live Human beings, all across the world from foreign aid consisting of life sustaining food, clean water, and medications, the death toll will be astronomical.
We're posting "articles" about what one dipshit said about Beyonce?
It’s because race and politics are historically intrinsically tied in America, and DEI is essentially the new n word as coopted by racist bigots.
I have no problem with this being considered politics as it’s parallel dehumanization and delegitimization tactics to those used in Nazi Germany.
It's politics because it's blatant racism from a public figure but all political events are not created equal. Engaging with toxic (but ultimately shallow) headlines like this is amplifying the Flood of Shit.
Your outrage is a smoke screen keeping the actual dismantling of democracy out of the public eye.
I'd even go so far as to say too much political gravity is conceded to tariffs and other international Trump panic. America loses credibility but tariffs can be rescinded and alliances slowly rebuilt. It's not so easy to regain control of a government with no opposition after a political purge.
Trump's last term quietly expanded ICE resources in one forgettable 24 hour news cycle. Now we're seeing how they use the GOP Gestapo as a federal police force against undesirables. People need to see that, but it won't get through their (sometimes literal) Trump content filter.
✍️ don’t call racism what it is ✍️ got it
it will be a better use of your time to go and volunteer for a human rights and migrant protection organization instead of writing toxic paragraphs under a throwaway historically contextualizing comment with 16 votes. thanks!
https://immigrationjustice.us/types-of-volunteer-opportunities/
https://www.rescue.org/volunteer
I believe 'America Has a Problem' is in the title because it's the title of a song written by Beyonce. It's just a reference that's also relevant.
And it's people voted for him. He got in democratically and this is what American people wanted.
America doesn't have a problem .... America is relapsing
DEI has become the socially-acceptable way to say the N-Word
And claiming someone is a DEI-Hire or "Won because of DEI", has become the polite way to say that a black person's accomplishments are invalid due to them being black.
Write it like the truth, because anything else downplays how awful these people are.
When someone who’s never accomplished anything impressive sees someone who has, if they’re a piece of shit, their reaction is to attack that person.
America has always been a racist as fuck country. The only difference is that it’s now blatantly mask off.
To quote Sonny from In the Heights, "racism in this nation has gone from latent to blatant". And that was in 2008. I wonder what he'd say now.
Please don't make listening to Beyonce an act of rebellion. I'm not strong enough.
Don't forget, the phrase DEI ends in a HARD "r" for these people.
The Grammys are awards for whoever spent the most money on recording and marketing anyway. They have little to do with any kind of artistic or technical merit or musicianship. Maybe never did.
I chalk up Burgess Owen's statements to CTE.
so fucking crazy and illogical that it's just a distraction and not real
"look over here
while we implement Project 2025! Beyonce! DEI! What's your opinion?! Let's engage in aracist and pointlessdebate about whether Beyonce deserves singing accoladeswhile we ready the wall for women who get abortions."The thing is, it's not one or the other. Project 2025 is chock full of racist shit.
Alternative headline: An American is upset an American has won an American award.
Or maybe she's really good and worked hard to deserve that grammy. Congratulations Beyoncé!! 😃
Who cares? Of course they are going to say ridiculous things, that's what they do. And the Grammys are stupid bullshit where mascots like beyoncé get to claim credit for the work actual musicians did. It isn't dei, just capitalism. I don't think beyoncé ever wrote a song in her life, so what is the award for being the best singer? Because she's not that either...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Songs_written_by_Beyonc%C3%A9
Beyonce like many big pop artists gets a songwriting credit if she performs on the song. This is standard as it gets you a cut of 5e sales. That being said, I have a hard time believing someone else wrote Lemonade.
I was curious if there was an industry reason why people don't believe she participates in writing her songs, since I don't know much about her or the industry.
https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/112b88u/a_few_times_beyonce_claimed_to_have_written_songs/
The conversation here is interesting, and now I know very slightly more than I did! I do still feel like if she added one word to all of those songs, she's written at least one total song, haha. Plus the stuff that's more personal.
edit: i meant to say i genuinely appreciate your response
There's a guy who has writing credit on "Uptown Funk" because he came up with one line "Don't believe me? Just watch!" which is the hook. Sometimes that little contribution is what makes it work
I have a hard time believing "Lemonade" an album about her husband's infidelity didn't involve her contributions at the very least.
You don't have to believe anything. Go look up the credits. Beyoncé was probably the least talented out of dozens of people who made that album, and she did not write any song unless you count vanity credits.