Remembering Hillary's racist joke about Indian Americans

[Cheese Sandwich]

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It's supposed to be OK though because she apologized:

2004
Clinton Apologizes for Gandhi Remark
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station here, saying it was ''a lame attempt at humor.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/nyregion/clinton-apologizes-for-gandhi-remark.html?_r=1


I don't think Bernie Sanders would ever crack a joke like this for cheap laughs. He doesn't have a history of racially divisive politics like Hillary Clinton does.

Frankly this is something I would expect to hear from Donald Trump.

Edit: To be clear, I am NOT calling Hillary racist. Only this joke was racist. I put it in the same category like if she joked about Jewish people being bad tippers

[speaktruthtopower]

1. The campaign

is about who wins and loses economically.

The baiting using wedge issues is just ammunition.

[tularetom]

2. I'm don't understand how anyone could even classify that remark as a "joke"

Because that would imply that there was some humor involved. I may be totally missing the point but it was not funny, it was just an extremely stupid remark,

She's right about one thing it was lame.

And embarrassing.

[Cheese Sandwich]

6. Well like she said, she was trying to crack a joke, and this her lame sense of humor

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. Not funny is right.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[Bohemianwriter]

3. Only at a Hollywood/comedy roast....

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[Cheese Sandwich]

9. Even decent comedians don't resort to that kind of humor

[Bohemianwriter]

12. There was a clip where Bil Hader...

made the most stereotypical Indian joke about Azis coming out cross eyed, playing the sitar...


It's on 4.58...

[juxtaposed]

4. Isn't this film from the 1930's when it was an accepted norm be a raciest in America?

I should add this

[cosmicone]

5. As an Indian-American I find the joke funny and not offensive at all

Let's stop with the rage manufacturing.

Hilary and Bill Clinton are Indophiles, travel to India often and have done wonders to Indo-US relations improvement. They were the first ones to see India in its own right and ended the hyphenation of India with Pakistan. Now Pakistan is hyphenated with Afghanistan and that is the way it should be.

Bill Clinton ended the Kargil war and made Nawaz Sharif (and wascally Musharraf) to withdraw their forces from Kashmir in a humiliating defeat. Bill's involvement paved the way for further improvement in relations during the Bush administration and led to the Indo-US nuclear cooperation treaty and India's entry into the NSG.

Indian-Americans are grateful.

PS: The Clintons eat Indian food at least twice a week as well. On the night of the Benghazi hearings, Hillary and her campaign workers ate Indian food for example to celebrate the victory against Trey Gowdy.

[frylock]

8. The Clintons eat Indian food at least twice a week as well.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Omfg.

[JI7]

20. it may be funny but a lot of them love that type of stuff

This is what i have been saying about why Clintons are popular among many minorities.

[beam me up scottie]

22. Right?

[truebrit71]

25. Me too... big fan of the Tikka Masala...

Although a good Vindaloo goes a long way...

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

30. Yes, and some of the Clintons' best friends are Indians!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[Cheese Sandwich]

14. Yeah right.

You're biased for Hillary.

She apologized for a reason.

[Lordquinton]

23. "Let's stop with the rage manufacturing."

That's a great idea, you first.

[arcane1]

31. Hillary disagrees with you. She called it lame.

But hey, what about the other 5 days of the week? What's for dinner?

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Perhaps she's an "old-style feminist," ones that misled black women during the suffrage movement.

.


Upper and upper-middle class white women pushed for the suffrage, and they needed the vote of the black women who have been fighting for over 40 years for rights and a voice. They were skeptical of these white groups, after being fed lip service for decades, but went along in good faith.

Then, when the woman's right to vote was passed, the white women abandoned them.


.

[cui bono]

10. This was unfortunate, but I do NOT think Hillary is a racist so this doesn't matter much to me.

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. I put it in the same category like if she joked about Jewish people being bad tippers

and then apologized. Wicked funny hahaha.

[Cheese Sandwich]

15. She doesn't deserve to be president

[JI7]

16. the Clintons are very popular among Indian Americans

She did apologize for this joke which was some years before she first ran for president . But even then most Indian americans didn't have a problem with it.

Most were supporting her when i was trying to get support for Obama. But most also said that really liked obama also.

The Clintons just have a lot of connections into different communities.

[Cheese Sandwich]

17. I don't get her sense of humor. How is it funny to bring up Gandhi and then say he worked at a gas

station?

How isn't that like bringing up MLK and then joking he used to be a janitor down at the hospital?

[JI7]

18. i think because she was talking to her indian american supporters

Some named gandhi (no relation to civil rights leader) who do run gas stations.

I guess it's different than if it was to a non Indian audience.

But mostly it's because of their ties to the community that it won't hurt them. Same with joe biden . Both of them have long time relationships in the community .

[Cheese Sandwich]

19. No it was just a regular fundraiser in Missouri

[JI7]

21. i think there was a guy named gandhi supporting her

I don't remember the details but i remember reading something about this.

She gets a lot of money from Indian americans.

[Cheese Sandwich]

24. She was talking about MK Gandhi the Indian leader

She quoted him about something and decided to throw this joke in for some reason.

[JI7]

26. yes but there really is a guy named gandhi supporting her

Who she asks in the video.

[Cheese Sandwich]

29. All she knew there was Indian people make for a cheap and easy punchline

[azmom]

32. Yep. It was in very bad taste.

Makes you wonder what jokes she tells in private.

[Cheese Sandwich]

33. I know right.

She probably says all kinds of stuff like that. Maybe she didn't realize the camera was on.

It seemed like someone trying to look cool by making a quick ethnic joke.