• SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    264·
    2 months ago

    IIRC 2nd right isn’t weird. He’s mocking the differently abled or some woman (journalist?) who was hurt or something. The details are fuzzy but I remember it being gross and cruel.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      50·
      2 months ago

      IIRC 2nd right isn’t weird. He’s mocking the differently abled or some woman (journalist?) who was hurt or something.

      oh yeah, that’s not weird behaviour, who hasn’t done that while campaigning for public office.

      • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1414·
        2 months ago

        It’s a lot of things, but “weird”? I’ve never really described mocking people for things they can’t control as “weird.” That just makes it sound odd or unusual, it downplays the real problem which is that it’s cruel and wrong. Being a bad person isn’t just some “lol how quirky” situation. It’s a choice.

        • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
          22·
          2 months ago

          I think it’s not only cruel and mean, but also weird that someone mocks a disabled person by imitating a caricature of a disability.

          • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            118·
            2 months ago

            I just don’t think “weird” is among even the first 5 words when I think of describing someone mocking people like that. Childish, ableist, shitty, mean, wrong. Things like that.

            I think we’re spinning our wheels here ultimately. I just think describing a truly shitty bigoted action as “weird” makes it sound borderline silly/whimsical and doesn’t communicate the gravity of the act.

        • bitchkat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          That just makes it sound odd or unusual,

          That’s exactly what is meant by “weird”.

    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
      9·
      2 months ago

      It was a male reporter.

      The great thing was the excuse his people came up with. Trump wasn’t mocking that person in particular; he does that move whenever he’s mocking someone. You know, how FDR and Kennedy had famous mocking faces they used so much…

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      English
      2·
      2 months ago

      Fox thinks it’s a coincidence that his arm shaking is strongest when mocking the disabled reporter.

      Their raw video compilation here (promise, no talking heads besides an orange one).

      the most you could say about these bits of evidence is that they demonstrate that Trump is an equal-opportunity mocker

      But is he - you’ll have to decide (naw we already know what we think) :)