look, it’s not his fault he learned it from all the open antisemites he surrounds himself with.

No. He is stupid though. His fav musical is Les Mis. Still no benefit of the doubt.

Not that Les Mis is bad. He just obviously doesn’t understand the plot/theme/message.

Yep I was right there with you!

Easy. No.

Horrible humans that refuse to learn , grow, and care about others never get the benefit of the doubt. He is stupid, but that is no excuse.

I absolutely believe that he doesn't know it comes from a Shakespeare character. He absolutely knows what it means.

I've encountered many racists in my life of all levels of intelligence and one of the major commonalities is that they are basically all slur encyclopedias regardless of intellect.

Exactly! I grew up around a lot of people like this, and regardless of the fact that they were all dumber than sacks of dog shit, not only did they know every slur imaginable they were more than happy to explain what each one meant.

The exact limit of every bigot's creativity lies in their racist vocabulary

WORD (pun intended)

Spot on. Have known some Ivy League, fancy family types like this.

No. Absolutely not.

Grrumphgrr! I am the joker over this shit. Whether or not he *knew* (and I definitely think he did!) kinda doesn’t matter. He SAID it. We can’t accept a leader saying slurs and acting like that’s ok. Intent vs impact. But even if he is that ignorant/stupid… that’s also unacceptable for a president!

Even if he didn’t KNOW, a decent person who said something heinous would care when they learned about it, immediately apologize & do what they could to make amends. Don’t excuse casual bigotry just because it’s casual! Excusing bigotry is endorsing bigotry. (Sorry, I know you know this.)

Given that he's pummeling Harvard and similar for antisemitism, he does not. He should be pummeled for his obvious antisemitic behavior.

"I'm willing to believe" damn dude, I'm sorry blocked

I think two things can be true. You?

MOST DUMB PEOPLE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF SHYLOCK WHAT KIND OF WEIRD NAZI APOLOGIA IS THIS. LIKE YEAH MAN PLENTY OF LAYMEN CASUALLY REFERENCE THE FUCKING MERCHANT OF VENICE

The whole reason memes and cultural references are so prevalent is because you can understand the word/image/gif in context without ever having encountered the source material. He might not know the Merchant of Venice but he damn well knows that word is a slur.

Bring back invite codes this site is fucking dark sided now. The vibes are rancid dog piss served on a boiling plate

Asked and answered your honor. Also there's no way he doesn't know, as he's been doing "business" in NYC since the seventies.

"Stupid or evil?" has always been the question about conservatives and after all the needless insanity and oppression of the Trump era I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt, and the answer to the question is: they're both.

and galactically racist...

Nope. And he 💯 knows what it means; he’s been saying it his whole life.