Current Events > Fetterman's Wife Calls Swimming in America 'Very Racist'

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https://www.yahoo.com/video/fetterman-wife-calls-swimming-america-234551770.html

Speaking on a podcast Thursday, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, the wife of Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, said, Historically, swimming in America is very racist. One of the points of contention Tuesday night during a debate between her husband and Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz was how many mansions each man has and how they had afforded them. Gisele Fettermans comments were an attempt to contextualize why she and her husband own a mansion that Oz alleged Fetterman had received for a dollar. And while we did not want the mansion, that mansion came with a pool I wanted. And the dream was to make this a public pool and turn it into the peoples pool and ensure that young people across Pennsylvania could learn how to swim and water safety and kind of work to right some of the wrongs, she told Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi on the iGen Politics podcast.

After the debate, John Fetterman and his campaign have been roundly criticized. Pennsylvanias Senate race has narrowed in recent weeks as Oz emerges as a viable candidate to compete with Fetterman, the early favorite. The election is seen as a bellwether for broader cultural currents in America, given Pennsylvanias status as a perennial battleground state. Following her husbands stroke in May and its lingering impact, some liberal commentators have begun floating the idea of Giseles serving as the de facto candidate in her husbands campaign. However, these comments have been walked back in an attempt to downplay the candidates health problems.

That Dr Oz is a serious political candidate is incontrovertible proof that we're in the fucked-up bitter comedy dystopian timeline.

I mean, in a way she's not wrong. Weird way to phrase it though.

Kakapo posted...

That Dr Oz is a serious political candidate is incontrovertible proof that we're in the fucked-up bitter comedy dystopian timeline.

That was proven when Trump won.

Everything is racist

shes right tho

What is this, A Storm in Summer?

Wut?

reading more than one sentence makes it clear shes talking about how many african americans, for a long time and even still today, never had any chance or place to learn how to swim, and not the action of swimming itself, but thats not as grabby of a headline, i guess

TheGoldenEel posted...

shes right tho

this, just a few decades ago they would ban nonwhites from public pools and fill in pools in minority areas with dirt in the middle of the night

It's feeling very SArmstrong all of a sudden.

lol

I'm not sure how this is in any way controversial?

Gisele was referring to a swimming pool on the grounds of the Pennsylvania lieutenant governors official residence, which Fetterman declined to move into upon his election in 2019, becoming the first Pennsylvania lieutenant governor not to live on the historic estate since 1971. The Fettermans subsequently opened the pool up to public use.

Yeah with full context, I'm not seeing anything wrong with what she said. Anybody is free to deny how black people were denied pool access and something like this

https://www.npr.org/2014/06/13/321380585/remembering-a-civil-rights-swim-in-it-was-a-milestone

But that'll either make you look like a racist shitposter or somebody who had a shitty education

Is that where that stereotype comes from? >_>

DKBananaSlamma posted...

Is that where that stereotype comes from? >_>

Well that pre-60s and redlining (and pricey swim clubs) before and since then does limit pool access to lower income neighborhoods. You're not gonna find a good number of maintained public pools in those areas. Hell it blew my mind when I found out there was an affordable pool park near where I live right now where it's $7 a visit because that wasn't anywhere in the Atlanta area.

Why do CE topics about minorities make me feel like I got a Harvard level education in high school when I grew up in fucking Georgia 30 miles from a confederate monument on the side of a giant rock.

That's not what she said, but what she DID say was correct.

Questionmarktarius posted...

When the "best" candidate for the other party is a stroke victim, and we're not supposed to talk about that, this is what happens

No one says you can't talk about it, but the fact a stroke victim is still leaps and bounds ahead of any dumb fuck GOP politician should be more concerning.

Questionmarktarius posted...

When the "best" candidate for the other party is a stroke victim, and we're not supposed to talk about that, this is what happens

The stroke is irrelevant as it has not impacted his capacity for judgement. It messes with his speech a little and makes him hard of hearing but that's literally the only problems he's got.

Well that's certainly a post by QMT

People are complaining about a man who had a stroke but is (as far as we've seen) mentally capable, meanwhile we regularly elect people with dementia to President.

MacadamianNut3 posted...

Well that pre-60s and redlining (and pricey swim clubs) before and since then does limit pool access to lower income neighborhoods. You're not gonna find a good number of maintained public pools in those areas. Hell it blew my mind when I found out there was an affordable pool park near where I live right now where it's $7 a visit because that wasn't anywhere in the Atlanta area.

Why do CE topics about minorities make me feel like I got a Harvard level education in high school when I grew up in fucking Georgia 30 miles from a confederate monument on the side of a giant rock.

Its just Neon. He doesnt take anything seriously. That includes life.

Swimming was HEAVILY gatekept by white people until the Civil Rights movement and the lingering effects of redlining and the like has still kept swimming less available to non-white people to this day.

On top of that, a kid who's parents didn't know how to swim is just going to be less likely to be taught to swim as well. Which carries over generation to generation.

The speech criticism is hilarious to me

Trump garbled in the most nonsensical way, his sentences always digressed into random bragging and he rambled and got off the point all the time

I feel the republicans main defence of that was he, in their opinion, was still smart and was for the policies they like, he just didn't talk like a politician but was still suitable to be one

So it's dumb to judge this guy

MisterPengy posted...

People are complaining about a man who had a stroke but is (as far as we've seen) mentally capable, meanwhile we regularly elect people with dementia to President.

The letter preceding a name is all that matters to anyone really.