we're not talking about the specifics of one man anymore. No, we're on to a wide spread culture of racism and bigotry among top Democrats
No, that's what the left has been preaching all these years with regard to racism and bigotry. Looks like ya'll got yourselves in a jam as of late. Been out preaching your new found morality, putting everyone to the purity test and lookee here what's been exposed.
jem, what are you mumbling about? I can't edit Tom B's Posts??? Why would I want to. I don't no why Tom B. decided to quote me again, but I can't help but like it. He must be a swell guy. I did give him a like.
Just as a hypothetical thought exercise, what do you think their reaction would be if these guys were all republicans? The media are visibly affronted that we would expect them to treat allegations of sexual abuse against a black democrat as seriously as if the target were a conservative white guy. This whole blackface thing baffles me. Who ever did that? Now we have not one but two guys caught up in it, and you could not find two more loathsome assholes than these two. Still, I do not see any logical way to conclude that wearing blackface 30 years ago means you are a racist today.
In this instance, the affair had a far right origin. They must have been hoping the response would be as it in fact turned out. Now they are using the same tactic on the guy that would replace the Governor. He's a democrat too I believe. The network producers all want to be on the side of the majority. Whether it makes sense or not is not their concern. Their job is to sell advertising, and that means getting audience share however you can. Don't piss your viewers off, agree with them! This band wagon stuff isn't just a phenomenon among democrats, it is part of our nature. We want to be part of the group. That's where peer pressure comes from. I'm a lucky guy I am free from all that. I'm old, I'm educated, and I'm free to think for myself, and this sort of thing makes me damn crotchety. And a few others here are as well -- free to think on their own, not necessarily crotchety. Nice to see it. I don't care what happens to that guy in Virginia, that's up to Virginians. But wouldn't it be nice if Virginians, too, would think for themselves. I know nothing of the circumstances of that photo, I just know it's hilarious, and chances are very good that those two in the photo, whoever they are, are about as far from racist as you could get. Have you ever seen the Movie "To Be or Not to Be." We'll it's got lots of folks prancing around in Nazi uniforms. Have you ever seen "The Great Dictator" ? So let's not lose our heads here and buy into some line that some pernicious person, or organization with a political agenda, wants us to buy into. Let's just look at the picture of two people at a costume party that, so far as any of us knows, have no agenda other than, as a couple, to be funny as shit. Maybe they are horrible racists, who knows. But folks, all we have to go on is one funny as shit photo. Let's not read anything into it beyond that.
You are an old guy living in the South. You know you are full of shit on this. A KKK master and slave would never have been funny. It would be like a Muslim strapping on a suicide bomb vest at a party in lower Manhattan. Ted Danson in black face with his date Whoppi Goldberg. I have no desire to judge that. Some black face from years ago when you could have thought it was okay because you were trying to be Michael Jackson or Diana Ross... I will reserve judgment if its true that there was not animus. White sheeted men hiding their face... in the South. Its a symbol of dominance via fear of large groups insulated from the law because democrats were in power and supported each other from the Senate and Congress to local elected democrat officials and their law enforcement arms.
All the talk about "well it was the 80s and a different time" is horse manure. I was personally appalled and outraged when I encountered a billboard in rural North Carolina depicting a white horse and captioned "this is KKK country" in 1980. I also saw a KKK rally being conducted when I was driving in the countryside there, it was right off the side of the road in full view. No, I don't think a radical murderous group formed by Democrats to oppose the "radical republicans" in the Reconstruction South is funny... not then and not now.
I hear ya. Although truthfully, I got my doubts about Carl too. Might end out having to hire an illegal to take a job that no one else can do.