We’ve heard a lot about blondes and Fox News, but The Cut, one of New York Magazine’s verticals aimed at women, has brought Donald Trump into the mix and declared that Fox News and Trump — through Ivanka — have made blonde “the color of the right.”
Fox News and Donald Trump have given blonde hair a new chapter: Now, it is the color of the right, for whom whiteness has become a hallmark https://t.co/JHd94Y813k
— The Cut (@TheCut) April 24, 2021
@SirajAHashmi ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️
— Diego Velasquez (@DiegoVe33531443) April 24, 2021
Amy Larocca writes:
Fox News and Donald Trump have given blonde hair a new chapter: Now, blonde is the color of the right, for whom whiteness has become a hallmark. Over the past decade or so, as inclusiveness became the hallmark of Obama-era liberals, the left found feminist icons in Rachel Maddow, Samantha Power, and Michelle Obama, who make no apologies for their failure to fit traditional ideals. But #MAGA, Fox News America is a place where all the classic signifiers of privilege and wealth work on overdrive: country-club-issue blue blazers with brass buttons and khaki pants, and above all else, for women, that yellow-blonde, carefully tended hair — a dog whistle of whiteness, an unspoken declaration of values, a wink-wink to the power of racial privilege and to the 1980s vibe that pervades a movement led by a man who still believes in the guilt of the Central Park Five.
She even brings “The Karate Kid” into it: “Johnny, the villain of the Karate Kid films, had a decisive swoosh of blond hair that obscured his headband. We knew, the moment we saw that hair, that small, ethnic Daniel was up against more than another teenager, he was up against privilege itself.”
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Seriously. That’s what we were all thinking when watching “The Karate Kid” back in 1984.
Here are CNN's top four female anchors. What the fuck is this shit? https://t.co/TLzF6ocBBm pic.twitter.com/Qhgl8PbXNo
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 24, 2021
Please add this to the list @SirajAHashmi
— Beth Baumann (@eb454) April 24, 2021
@SirajAHashmi ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️
— Diego Velasquez (@DiegoVe33531443) April 24, 2021
— Brick Top (@Eradicator_NYC) April 24, 2021
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) April 24, 2021
— Isaac Taylor (@taylorarabs) April 24, 2021
Seek help.
— Julius "You know, the thing" Vercingetorix (@didderbops) April 24, 2021
We have this blonde in the WH…We must get her and her white husband out. pic.twitter.com/5w5jy6BUHB
— Killer Orca (@Gray_Orca) April 24, 2021
— Good Apple Jokes ⚾️♋️ (@goodapplejokes) April 24, 2021
— pigneedle (@pigneedle) April 24, 2021
— Andrea Caruso (@AndreaNRuth) April 24, 2021
This tweet is beyond shameful.
— The Gospel according to the apostle Silver Fox (@silverfox1876) April 24, 2021
Were you high when you typed this?
— Denise (@neeceetx) April 24, 2021
At first I thought people were joking about this headline but… nope. I hate this place.
— Just An Abundance Of Caution (@forbiddencomma) April 24, 2021
OMFG this is stupid.
— Annie_Bannany (@Annie_Bannany) April 24, 2021
Enjoy your ratio you actual racists.
— Austere Nuclear (Peaceful) Scholar (@commanderdata85) April 24, 2021
You all are a bunch of idiots.
— Christine B ? (@peaceandaloha) April 24, 2021
You really trying politicize hair colors now?
?
— KhaosByDesign (@KhaosByDesignUK) April 24, 2021
You are officially insane
— JohnnyD (@KingJDav44) April 24, 2021
How are you guys still in business? Who reads this?
— Cerberus (@Cerberus0fHades) April 24, 2021
People get paid to write this stuff? With actual money? pic.twitter.com/a6TAvrXZpx
— Tgby84u (@tgby84u) April 24, 2021
How do you have 1.4m followers yet struggle to achieve more than 10 likes on any tweet?
— Jeremy Lowe (@ConfiscateDeez) April 24, 2021
This is beyond idiotic. Well done.
— Chris Tsotsoros (@ctsotsoros) April 24, 2021
I know you need to produce content so you can keep your social media job, but this is stupid as shit.
— Roman (@TweetofRoman) April 24, 2021
Oh look! It's Chelsea Handler and her blonde hair! She must be MAGA. pic.twitter.com/HrqEpVPcJm
— Fuzzballdonut (@Fuzzballdonut1) April 24, 2021
Now we know why Hillary Clinton lost to the Donald. Her blonde hair means she is secretly MAGA and she wanted Trump to win!!! pic.twitter.com/Q4BivMPTDI
— Fuzzballdonut (@Fuzzballdonut1) April 24, 2021
Notice they retouched the photo to make them all look exactly the same.
— CavemanSynthesizer (@PithyJoe) April 24, 2021
— 60 Feet Socially Distant from Reality (@BIGJoshInAZ) April 24, 2021
Ridiculous! pic.twitter.com/YfbG5jVf5v
— SandyL ?? (@saRRLob) April 24, 2021
I am now convinced that journalists and editors from New York are utterly insane and living in some sort of weird alternate dimension.
— The Post Modern Times (@smisturiz) April 24, 2021
are you really this desperate for clicks? maybe just wind it all down and say goodnight gracefully?
— Gay Lumberjack (@cranepurveyor) April 24, 2021
People actually pitch these articles to editors, who give them the go-ahead to write their 1,000 words or whatever, and then they get paid for it when some clown hits the button to publish it for public consumption.
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