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"Godwin's Law" should be updated to include "racist".
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"Godwin's Law" should be updated to include "racist".


Jul 17, 2019, 10:10 PM

This term has been used so often and so thoughtlessly, simply as a weapon intended to shut down those who foolishly may be intimidated by being labeled a racist no matter how baseless or absurd, that any conversation, discussion, or topic reaches a point of meaningless absurdity as soon as the accusation is leveled.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


cool story.***


Jul 17, 2019, 10:12 PM



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Glad you enjoyed it.***


Jul 17, 2019, 10:14 PM



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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
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me too***


Jul 17, 2019, 10:20 PM



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Folks is forgot what a racist is.


Jul 17, 2019, 10:17 PM

You have small factors of racist groups but none are acceptable to republicans. Dems however have different problems with racist.

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Maybe we should all watch “Blazing Saddles”


Jul 17, 2019, 10:27 PM

Thinking we were more enlightened to the meaning of racism in 1974 than we are now.

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No doubt about it.***


Jul 17, 2019, 11:09 PM



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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


True but if you tell 4 congresswomen of color to go


Jul 17, 2019, 11:14 PM

back and fix your countries, you’ve made a racist bigoted statement.

The term is waaaay overused, you’re right, but not in this case.

Assume this prompted your post good sir.

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Trump's approach is very different from what mine would


Jul 18, 2019, 12:55 AM

be, and he says a lot of things I would never say. Still, I don't believe his statement was racially motivated. I think he feels these 4 women hold anti-American views and he lashed out.

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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken


He says a lot of things you would never say.


Jul 18, 2019, 8:35 AM

You pretty much summed it up there. You know better than to say those things, and in this particular case, because it was racist. There's no massaging it, or softening it. If any other politician said what he said, it would be universally labeled for what it is. If any other civilian said it, same thing. But Trump has set the table so thoroughly over the past few years, that half the country is apologizing for him and explaining that it's "just another crazy thing he said, he didn't mean anything by it!" It's like a bunch of battered wives.

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Re: He says a lot of things you would never say.


Jul 18, 2019, 8:41 AM

Good lord you are a baby. Go home to mommy.

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Unless you’re a Native American...


Jul 18, 2019, 1:02 AM [ in reply to True but if you tell 4 congresswomen of color to go ]

...your ancestries country of origin was not the USA. You know, that’s why we’re called “the melting pot”. :)
Especially for slow kids, the inference is if you don’t agree with your predecessors decision to come to America...you’re welcome to go back where they left from.

Simple enough, right?

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Actually, "Native Americans" came from somewhere else


Jul 18, 2019, 11:16 AM

too. Then they warred with and killed each other for thousands of years before Europeans came in and started pushing them out.

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Re: Actually, "Native Americans" came from somewhere else


Jul 18, 2019, 4:42 PM

You think Native Americans were just at war with each other all the time?

And when the Native Americans got here, which people who had claim to the land did they push out?

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Your supposition is horribly wrong.


Jul 18, 2019, 8:46 AM [ in reply to True but if you tell 4 congresswomen of color to go ]

You are supposing Trump would not say that to a group of four men who included a Swede, Brit, French and German. Four 'women of color,' stepped up to the plate and leaned in way too far, Trump throws a little high and inside to establish that the strike zone is also his concern. They fake being hit and you call a HBP.

You're blind ump. Trump would throw that pitch to a Yankee as or a Brave without prejudice.

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Re: Your supposition is horribly wrong.


Jul 18, 2019, 9:11 AM

Then why didn't he?

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You're missing the point. It's not that he wouldn't say it


Jul 18, 2019, 10:02 AM [ in reply to Your supposition is horribly wrong. ]

to a Brit or a Swede or a German because he's scared of the repercussions. There are no repercussions for the things he says. He wouldn't say "go back to your country" to a Swede, Brit, or German, because it wouldn't occur to him at all. They're white, like him.

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And you're missing the point.


Jul 18, 2019, 11:04 AM

You are assuming that it wouldn't occur to say that to a brit or a swede because they're white like him. I won't assume it, but I suspect you make that assumption because you have already decided he's a racist; otherwise, I don't know why you'd make it. That's the whole point - people are assuming that Trump had a racial motive because he's white and the women are not; but as a matter of fact, that's not necessarily the case. To reach that conclusion, one must assume that he would not say that to whites, which assumes racism from the start.

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He's been firebombing for 3 plus years on the main stage


Jul 18, 2019, 11:08 AM

now. Surely we have some examples of him telling white people to go back to whatever country they're from. Oh, we don't? Weird.

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No, and no other cases of him telling congresswomen


Jul 18, 2019, 11:20 AM

to go back either, as far as I know. Nothing weird about it.

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Why do you think he assumed they weren't from this country?***


Jul 18, 2019, 3:07 PM [ in reply to And you're missing the point. ]



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It already does. Nazis were racist.***


Jul 18, 2019, 6:04 AM



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Re: "Godwin's Law" should be updated to include "racist".


Jul 18, 2019, 7:38 AM

If you don't want to be called racist, don't be racist. It's that simple.

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Re: "Godwin's Law" should be updated to include "racist".


Jul 18, 2019, 8:41 AM

Periods, commas and basic grammar were never taught. Did you take African American Studies at Chapel Hill?

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