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So english is not my first language, nor was it my second or third. It's my fourth language. But even I understand that phrase though i never heard it before.
So let me re-phrase her expression in terms of symbols: I like Y so much, I'd do X if Y asked me too.
Y = some person (in this case the person she was endorsing, forgot his name, won't bother to look it up, you know who I'm referring to).
X= something unpleasant (in this case public hanging).
She wasn't saying public hanging fun, she was using it as something unpleasant to show her adoration of Y.
Yes, I am familiar with the concept, but it's usually expressed in terms of doing something that is painful or dangerous to oneself: "I'd take a bullet for him," or "I'd walk through fire for her."
Yes, I am familiar with the concept, but it's usually expressed in terms of doing something that is painful or dangerous to oneself: "I'd take a bullet for him," or "I'd walk through fire for her."
Yes, it's an unusual phrase but still the meaning behind it is clear. Perhaps it's an expression in Mississippi and perhaps not. Perhaps there is a hidden meaning in her choice of public hangings to fit this expression, perhaps not?
The point is it's kind of unimportant, if you search for hidden meanings you will go crazy.
Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith once promoted a measure that praised a Confederate soldier's effort to "defend his homeland" and pushed a revisionist view of the Civil War.
I live in Biloxi and I hear it every once in a while
My mother is from Pass Christian. I was born in Meridian. And I have tons of relatives who still live in the state. This is not a common saying considering all the hangings that happened in our state. For a politician to joke about it is extremely insensitive and just stupid. She's a disgrace.
Ok from what I heard from videos on this I don't consider this racist. She was referring to going to a public legal hanging. Not a mob lynching. Hanging people was once a legal way to execute people. A mob lynching someone in the name of vigilante justice was something different. For me had she used the word lynching then I'd view it differently.
Ok from what I heard from videos on this I don't consider this racist. She was referring to going to a public legal hanging. Not a mob lynching. Hanging people was once a legal way to execute people. A mob lynching someone in the name of vigilante justice was something different. For me had she used the word lynching then I'd view it differently.
She did not say "legal" but that's fine if in your opinion it is not racist for a politician in Mississippi to talk about going to a hanging.
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