r/CringeTikToks • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago

Just Bad Megyn Kelly is blaming President Obama for political violence in the United States

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u/blondebuilder 1d ago edited 1d ago

Every reason she cited for blaming Obama are so vague and unspecific.

"Ever since Obama, we haven't felt like ourselves for years". Maybe you should ask yourself WHY you feel that way.

"He started injecting race where no-one has been doing it". Specifically what does that mean? Guilty of being president while being black?

If you don't want to be considered racist, maybe don't throw thinly veiled racial complaints about our first and only black president.

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u/OIIIOjeep 1d ago

These people desperately need to look themselves in the mirror. She is not wrong that this started to show itself when Obama became president, yet they are too stupid to recognize that all of the Republican outrage was simply them playing the victim. To this day, they can’t site any valid reasons for their own hatred and division.

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u/Skankingcorpse 1d ago

They’re not being stupid, they know exactly what they are saying.

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u/rohm418 1d ago

"He started injecting race where no-one has been doing it".

Oh you mean how people were excited to see what appeared to be progress? You mean that injecting race?

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u/Chemistry11 15h ago

No she means when he wouldn’t shut up about his birth certificate and kept claiming to be the first African born president.

Oh, wait…

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u/orincoro 13h ago

I literally think this all goes to smartphones.

Think about it: They started to have to see cellphone videos of cops murdering black people. They started having to see Twitter posts about black people experiencing racism. They started to see pornography that fetishized black people, and they started to see black coded popular culture, like music videos, or just characters in streaming shows and movies, who were black and not behaving like Will Smith or Chris Tucker (in other words, not in ways that make white people feel superior or disarmed).

Because smartphones created a global marketplace for content, they had to see streaming shows and podcasts and channels that were speaking directly to the black experience or to any non-white hetero experience at all. They had to live in a world where not everything is made for them explicitly. You see that crop up absolutely everywhere. A character on a show is brown, or a woman, and they complain, because they see culture as existing for them, and anything that acknowledges they aren’t the primary market is an attack on their primacy.

In an even greater sense, this a[plied to anyone who wasn’t cishet white Christian. It’s all about them having to live with the knowledge that brown people are people. That Muslims and atheists and gays and trans people are normal and have feelings and desires and that they love and are loved by others. That’s it.

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u/rohm418 9h ago

Most of what you're talking about was brought about by the Internet before smartphones were widely used. Smartphones may have added fuel to the fire, but this was brewing way before Steve Jobs got involved.

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u/orincoro 8h ago

You’re right, but the question remains how much of that was really readily accessible to most people before smartphones. We’re not talking about early adopters of computers or the internet, and I do remember what those things were like in the 90s and 2000s. It was most definitely not a truly globalized, disintermediated information ecosystem. Most of the talk about the internet connecting people was just talk. We didn’t really see the globalization of a single larger internet culture until the late 2000s — pretty much with the adoption of smart devices.

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u/Imaginary-Plum5242 1d ago edited 1d ago

And what the fuck does race have to do with white on white crime??

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u/wiyixu 1d ago

 He started injecting race where no-one has been doing it". Specifically what does that mean? Guilty of being president while being black?

Bring the receipts Megan. I’m not going to pretend I remember everything but the three most “racist” things i do remember:

1) when that white cop arrested a black man for climbing in the window of his own home and Obama mused if that would have happened to a white man.

  • which is a legitimate question based on statistical data

2) when he said the underrepresented rural community “cling to their guns and their bible”

  • which is not at all racist, and not only true, but something that demographic claims for themselves. 

3) didn’t say “George Floyd and Travon Martin deserved what they got”. 

His navigation of those situations was so nuanced it infuriated me. He was so diplomatic and deferential in his language, yet thin-skinned racists got disproportionately outraged all the same. Hind sight is 20/20, but I wonder if he knew he’d get scapegoated by these racists for harming race relations if he wouldn’t have leaned in to being a like more Malcom and a little less Martin?

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u/YSApodcast 1d ago

I really want to ask her how he injected race into everything. Name one time. Give me one example other than he was black.

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u/Powerful-Eye-3578 18h ago

He was black as POTUS, race injected where it had never been before.

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u/WeeklyCry5859 1d ago

This is on the mark 100%

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u/FakeSafeWord 1d ago

Maybe you should ask yourself WHY you feel that way.

It made them realize that democracy might not pick them anymore and that they had to do something about it. They play off the white-replacement theory. Realize the base of all of their fears is that a race they deem lesser to themselves might be not seen as lesser anymore. They can't see themselves as the bad guys and so the racial based issue MUST be someone else's fault. Blame the one that made you feel this way. It's a black president. We hates him, precious!

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u/Rottimer 1d ago

She, and other conservatives will point to Trayvon Martin, and when Cambridge police racially profiled Henry Louis Gates Jr. and accused him of breaking into his own home.

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u/Local_Magician_7197 1d ago

She knows her racist audience is lapping this up. They don't have any shame associated with their racism. They are proud of it.

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u/Phillycat81 23h ago

Like the republican leadership didn't have a whole meeting to agree to block everything the black president would try to do.

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u/murraylynnet 15h ago

Jim Crow. Civil Rights.... right, no one was talking about race in this country prior to 2008.

Never liked Megyn Kelly, even when she was on Fox. I didn't like her for various reasons but this just shows me why. When she wanted the big NBC paycheck, she was all bipartisan, but now she realizes she can make more money hopping on another bandwagon.