The former wrestler, who supports Donald Trump, also made comments about the vice-president's racial identity.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has joked about body slamming Vice-President Kamala Harris in front of a fired up crowd, and questioned her racial identity.

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“Do you want me to drop the leg on Kamala?!” he shouts, referring to one of his iconic wrestling moves.

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Hogan continued to make more comments about Ms Harris including one about her Indian heritage.

Kamala Harris is bi-racial - her mother was from India and her father is Jamaican.

“Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?” Hogan asked the crowd, before using an outdated and stereotypical greeting associated with Native American Indians.

The video stops after he could be heard saying he “was going to get heat for that one”.

  • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    We all know how big of a racist prick he his, so yeah, no surprise. This clown needs to go away. He was a hero and now he’s just pathetic.

      • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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        10 months ago

        I never watched wrestling, but Andre seemed like a nice guy when I heard about him on the vince mcmahon behind the bastards. Hulk sounded like he sucked.

        • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          I’ve never been a fan of wrestling but I loved Andre. From everything I’ve seen and heard, he was the nicest guy you could hope to meet. There are some great stories about him out there too. There’s video of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a time when he and Andre were arguing over who would pay the check at a restaurant and Andre literally picked Arnold up and put him on a piece of furniture. And another similar occasion with Andre and Wilt Chamberlain. The Cary Elwes book, As You Wish, about the making of The Princess Bride has a lot of stories about Andre from the cast too. It’s well worth the read if you’re a fan of the movie.

        • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          My dad used to run into him regularly when he worked as airport security in the 70s. He was a fantastic kind man with an incredible sense of humor. My dad had lots of good stories about him that he used to tell me about. So, another data point to back up your thinking.

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

      Never meet your heroes - former hulkamaniac

      I was never much of a Hulkamanic, but I was a huge fan of the Ultimate Warrior who turned out to be a huge decroded piece of crap too. My all time favorite though was always Rowdy Roddy, and my second favorite was Da Maniac, but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.

        Is there any context to this? I’m genuinely curious.

        • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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          10 months ago

          Me and some friends were looking for a way to give back to the troops. So we decided to do a big wrestling thing. We got a hold of a local legend in the wrestling scene named Da Maniac. We were getting all the details ironed out for the show and he kept calling me the N-word. He also started to autograph parking tickets and tried giving them to us, plus it looked like he was living in his station wagon. He ended up getting arrested right before the show, so we had to do our own thing. We tried this whole eagle/bird of prey tag team thing. But I think we came off more like pigeons than as eagles. But we got another friend from school to wrestle against us. He showed up in this racist Arab costume and called himself the tali-bum (he was homeless at the time).

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Thank you for the context, though coming back to this, I got no closure on the acorns. What was that not about?

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    He tried for Kamela Chameleon and instead discovered the Karma chameleon: Hulk’s has definitely come and gone.

  • DxK@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is not politics. It’s the inane yammering of a washed up, union busting snitch, pro wrestler and D-list actor. Stop legitimizing these pieces of shit. Have we learned nothing over the last decade?!

    • macarthur_park@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      This is not politics.

      As much as I want to agree with you, this guy was one of the key speakers at the RNC. He’s the embodiment of the Republican party’s political discourse.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This is not politics.

      Everything is politics in one way or another. In this case, it is explicitly political. Because the washed up, union busting snitch, pro wrestler and D-list actor is giving a political speech at a political convention for a major political party for the nomination of a politician.

      Like the only way it could be more political is if he was running himself.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Do better MicroWave, one less post an hour won’t hurt ya.

      Damn, man. Beggars can’t be choosers. How much content do you submit to keep this community active? Just down-vote and move on. No need to make it personal.

      • DxK@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Quality over quantity.

        Just down-vote and move on.

        You should take your own advice.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          See that’s just it, I’m not the one criticizing.

          Throwing peanuts from the peanut gallery is easy. Being the change you want to see isn’t. Start submitting to this sub and let’s see how you fair.

          You should take your own advice.

          Sometimes people need a taste of their own medicine.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    He was like my AllMight as a kid.

    Fucking sad. I hate all that time wasted even as a hobby. Piece of crap.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Remember when Hulk used to rip his shirt off, and he didn’t have to cover his gross old body with another shirt?