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Context is critical: The phrase is not being used in a racist way here - osama is the name of a specific and notoriously vile person - and invoking it doesn't automatically make something racist. The assertion is that a particular individual is a bad person, but it says nothing about the group that person is a part of. Trump's goal is to imply an association with a particular race/nationality that racists are biased against, and by extension that obama must be bad because of that association. It's asserting that a specific person is a member of a group, and therefore that person must be bad.
Again, this is more from the same poster.
There is no difference in the context. This guy is invoking the name Osama to bring to mind the mental picture of scary evil Muslim bad people in his racist followers, the exact same way Trump stresses Hussein to bring to mind that exact same mental image to his racist followers.
Maybe you don't remember this, but Hussein is also the name of a specific and notoriously vile person.
That screenshot is of an ironic subversion of a common and heavily criticized sentiment, "I'm not racist, my best friend is black!". It takes it to a satirical extreme by implying that he would consider the association between himself and a literal black object to be the same as between himself and a black human, calling out the absurdity of the trend of "tokenizing" black acquaintances to get a "pass" on behavior. It is not an example of the poster being racist.
Anyways: That you have to assert their motivations conform to your opinion, instead of being able to show how this in any way makes a generalized statement, is pretty conclusive. This implies that the association the poster made is not clear enough for you, an intelligent person, to be able to demonstrate it through their words or framing alone.
If you want to be specific about the comparison between Saddam/Obama, it still isn't the same - Trump is trying to compare Obama to that one person to imply negative characteristics. The example in the meme makes no comparison except arguably between a notorious anti-western leader and several of the companies poised to collapse the western economy. It doesn't seem like an unfair comparison there - Osama Bin Laden rather famously predicted this exact situation, and as he was a very intelligent person with a prestigious education in both western culture and economics, it's not unreasonable to think he would find the irony in this juxtaposition. It is, after all, damn near the perfect example of the culmination of his work.
Instead of basing all of this on your own assumptions, you could just go read his page for yourself. This is not a great person. He's not being ironically playful, and even if he was ironic racism is still racism.
You're free to defend racism if that's the person you want to be, I'm free to click this button so I never have to see anything else you have to say.
I'm sorry, it appears you have eaten the onion.
Additionally, I'm not sure why blocking me is being treated as a threat - That would effectively put me in a situation where I could provide my commentary on your assertions without the need to engage with you directly. You're largely ignoring what I've said already; in terms of my experience, the difference in our interactions would be minimal.