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originally posted by: cenpuppie
a reply to: Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
Excatly my man, and that is what I was saying,in addition to commenting on his intelligence. Is he racist? I don't know but he is ignorant.
originally posted by: ausername
a reply to: pointr97
Except that slavery then was brutal imprisonment by whites who seen them as animals, property. Theirs to abuse, torture, exploit and even kill.
If they are slaves now then they are their own masters. They have freedom and opportunity... No one is going to beat them down if they use that freedom as they wish.
originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: phishfriar47
I'm from the camp who doesn't think he's racist. Just a well meaning hick who has been buying into the Fox News crowd. I think he got all hyped up from the right wing propaganda meetings they were having and thought he was telling people what they wanted to hear. It really is sad, he's a nice ole hick not at all trained to be in the national spot light.
However what he said was racist and untrue.
If you tell a racist joke that doesn't make you a racist. But even if your not a racist the joke was. So it's worth apologizing for.
I can't believe you think African Americans were better off in chains then on welfare. And no welfare isn't at all compare able to being in chains.
originally posted by: Secret009
When did ATS become the #ing drudge report? This man STOLE from the American people. It's not even that he's basically a welfare farmer, he would be one if he PAID those subsidized fines. Not paying them makes him a THIEF.
Furthermore, watching both videos, I'm 100% positive this man is a racist. If you don't agree, you might be racist yourself. "The negro"? Come on man, it's 2014. This is even vile enough that FOX NEWS had to gag themselves! It's EMBARRASSING to any of his supporters, as we have seen. There just isn't coming back from this, it is too deplorable to tolerate. He might as well have called them *iggers.
originally posted by: tsingtao
originally posted by: Secret009
When did ATS become the #ing drudge report? This man STOLE from the American people. It's not even that he's basically a welfare farmer, he would be one if he PAID those subsidized fines. Not paying them makes him a THIEF.
Furthermore, watching both videos, I'm 100% positive this man is a racist. If you don't agree, you might be racist yourself. "The negro"? Come on man, it's 2014. This is even vile enough that FOX NEWS had to gag themselves! It's EMBARRASSING to any of his supporters, as we have seen. There just isn't coming back from this, it is too deplorable to tolerate. He might as well have called them *iggers.
hey, talk to the irs people that got a friggin bonus even tho they owed back taxes, or charlie rangle.
and the first to shout racist is probably the racist.
how old are you? you don't remember when negro was accepted? then they started changing what they were called? colored?
i got flak for calling a black gal, "sista" in a friendly way.
brothers meant black or whatever they were calling themselves.
i stopped at black. screw the pc. i don't play games.
originally posted by: Secret009
When did ATS become the #ing drudge report? This man STOLE from the American people. It's not even that he's basically a welfare farmer, he would be one if he PAID those subsidized fines. Not paying them makes him a THIEF.
Furthermore, watching both videos, I'm 100% positive this man is a racist. If you don't agree, you might be racist yourself. "The negro"? Come on man, it's 2014. This is even vile enough that FOX NEWS had to gag themselves! It's EMBARRASSING to any of his supporters, as we have seen. There just isn't coming back from this, it is too deplorable to tolerate. He might as well have called them *iggers.
originally posted by: ArtemisE
a reply to: dfens
He didn't make a joke in a bar or talk about a specific person... He had a press conference and lumped all "negros "into the same pile. His comments art like the definition of racism.... And right wing talking points.
originally posted by: phinubian
What dictionary is that? Merriam Webster seems to understand the word a little different , me I am not offended by Negro as easily others might be though, especially if it is coming from an 80 or 90 year old person, he even used colored, I've heard older people that were probably around in 40's that are not white using Negro but not really meaning anything derogatory.
Anyhow the dictionary I read does seem to caution that the word is sometimes offensive so you are not fully correct if you want to use a dictionary to validate the word as not being offensive.
Sometimes offensive according to Merriam Websters dictionary
Ne·gro
noun ˈnē-(ˌ)grō (Medical Dictionary)
plural Negroes
Medical Definition of NEGRO
sometimes offensive : a member of a race of humankind native to Africa and classified according to physical features (as dark skin pigmentation)
—Negro adjective, sometimes offensive
originally posted by: qwerty12345
a reply to: Leonidas
If he pays taxes, then isn't those 'public/federal/state lands' his as well as the rest of the communities? Does his cows not poo? They fertilize the lands. does he get paid for freely fertilizing the land? Should not these actions both cancel each other out in fees? Does the cows grazing and freely traveling about a cost or more importantly an injury to anyone? Is there some federal park ranger picking up cow poo because of it? Do they take money from the federal gardeners for not allowing them to mow the land? The cows taking their jobs? I don't see why anyone has to pay unless they're using someone's private lands. It's as absurd as paying toll roads. How can one peacefully assemble if one can not freely travel in one's own country? You might say, "The roads need repairing and what not though," but I'll gladly wager that many of us in the US in different cities know certain roads that have yet to be fixed in years! Although the same roads, that aren't even broken, keep being 'repaired'. Do you not see the ponzi schemes going on? The governments are supposed to represent the people and obviously do what's best for them. That's what this country is supposed to be a Republic(not republican, there's a difference, sadly I have to point this out to people on this site)! What we have today is far from it.
my point is why do you reach for tokens ?
Are you able to defend this idiot without finding token endorsements?