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#FutureMittJokes, Now

"No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate," said oblivious rich white guy Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Michigan today. "They know that this is the place that we were born and raised." Get it? I'm white, and my opponent isn't! Ha! My skin...

“No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate,” said oblivious rich white guy Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in Michigan today. “They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”

Get it? I’m white, and my opponent isn’t! Ha! My skin is the same color as yours (only white people attend Mitt Romney rallies), so nobody has ever had reason to distrust me! Ha! Haha!

The fact that Mitt Romney probably wasn’t intending to be racist or insulting only makes things worse; it’s the sort of joke he’s probably told at country clubs and galas for years now, thinking nothing of it all the while. Of course, now he’s also validating the deeply toxic GOP “birther” meme, and sending a tacit signal to all the fringy folks who seriously remain unconvinced that Barack Obama is an American citizen.

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Thankfully, #FutureMittJokes quickly became a fertile dumping ground for laying into Romney and his racist quip. Here we go:

I can walk through any neighborhood with a hoodie holding some candy and iced tea without someone thinking I’m a burglar. #futuremittjokes

— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) August 24, 2012

"No one complained that I 'took their spot' when I got into college." #futuremittjokes

— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) August 24, 2012

“Now I’ve not had my opponent’s supporters compare my wife to a monkey…” #futuremittjokes

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 24, 2012

Everyone assumes I earned my college diploma. #futuremittjokes

— attackerman (@attackerman) August 24, 2012

I foresee Romney’s jokes descending into, “Hey, I’m a white guy. Hahaha.” by the end of next week

— Kate Sheppard (@kate_sheppard) August 24, 2012

LOADING HUMOR ROUTINE ERROR 404 NOT FOUND #futuremittjokes

— Quite Lowbrow (@droogie6655321) August 24, 2012

No one’s ever accused me of opposing colonialism and meant something bad by it. #futuremittjokes

— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) August 24, 2012

“My dog whistle goes to 11.” #futuremittjokes

— techweenie (@techweenie) August 24, 2012

Barack Obama is only three-fifths the man I am. #futuremittjokes

— Paul Conrad (@Paul_Conrad) August 24, 2012

im white im white im white im white hahahaha points at skin the other guy is black #futuremittjokes

— max read (@max_read) August 24, 2012

Well played, Twitter.

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