Critics rebuke Mississippi senator's 'public hanging' remark (voting, leader, state)

[MPowering1]

Originally Posted by r small

Have you ever been to Mississippi?

A couple of times. My position stands.

[Haakon]

Tempest in a teapot, just another excuse for liberals to work up some fake outrage and create a media sensation.

[natalie469]

Originally Posted by Oldhag1

I really do wish people would at least attempt to under the meaning of a saying before assigning meaning to the phrase and attacking the person based on their own misunderstanding. She did not advocate public hangings.

Origins of ‘Invitation to a Hanging’

This was a phrase used during the woman’s childhood. If you want to criticize her on policy, go for it but stop inventing things to be outraged over.

And, it has NOTHING to do lynching. Lynchings were hangings done by citizens deciding to be judge and executioner because they thought the law wouldn’t do it; her comment originated from the practice being allowed to watch the government hang someone.

I was born in Mississippi. My whole family is from the south and none of us have ever heard this expression. And quite frankly, she should know better than to say something like this in Mississippi.

[Jimbo302]

Originally Posted by natalie469

I was born in Mississippi. My whole family is from the south and none of us have ever heard this expression. And quite frankly, she should know better than to say something like this in Mississippi.

Something like what? You have no idea what the phrase is referencing, yet you decry it's "meaning" . That is a wholly uninformed argument.

[natalie469]

Originally Posted by Jimbo302

Something like what? You have no idea what the phrase is referencing, yet you decry it's "meaning" . That is a wholly uninformed argument.

That is not a phrase used by anyone in Mississippi. How am I uninformed when this is my home state.

[Hesychios]

Critics rebuke Mississippi senator's 'public hanging' remark

Sounds like a dog whistle

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

The woman has been in Mississippi politics for some time now.

She knew exactly what she was saying, and who would hear it.

[what'd i miss]

Originally Posted by workingclasshero

1. A public LEGAL (capital punishment) hanging is not the same as a lynching



2. In the old days an "inventation to a hanging or execution" was just that, it was the way of the LAW to show the public officials that law was carried out,

3. by making capital punishment in the public..(out in the open for all to see)(whether it be hanging, electric chair, gas chamber, or lethal injection), will be a deterrent of capital crime, but will also bring on the debate on the merits of or against capital punishment


4. I think rapists, and pedophiles should be publicly castrated...
..... and that has nothing to do with the history of that state or race

Ring around the rationalization.

[Jimbo302]

Originally Posted by natalie469

I was born in Mississippi. My whole family is from the south and none of us have ever heard this expression. And quite frankly, she should know better than to say something like this in Mississippi.

Originally Posted by Jimbo302

Something like what? You have no idea what the phrase is referencing, yet you decry it's "meaning" . That is a wholly uninformed argument.

Originally Posted by natalie469

That is not a phrase used by anyone in Mississippi. How am I uninformed when this is my home state.

Your obsession with MS aside, I mentioned nothing about the state.
I only addressed the hypocrisy of your admission of not knowing the phrase, while you maintained you believe it to be a racial reference.

[GotHereQuickAsICould]

Talking about hangings in a state where people have family histories that include lynchings is either unbelievably stupid/tacky or a political nudge to certain folks.

Those who insist that talking about hangings is common practice, don't mean nothing by it, etc. are the ones being nudged.