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B) AT&T, Walmart, etc. may be throwing "hissy fits," but they also want their donations back.
C) Serious discussions of issues are undermined by calling people "terribly retarded."
(FYI, using "retarded" as an insult is also considered in poor taste these days. Just sayin'.)
D) It's "your" not "you're" you want here.
What are you talking about with point B). I don't care about what's trendy, so I will stick with "terribly retarded" thank you very much. You can consider it in poor taste just as I consider grown ups acting outraged over words like monkey and public hangings in poor taste.
But you can go ahead and have your fake hissy fits. No one actually believes you're honest. You will lose elections because instead of talking about issues everyone is talking about if you should be outraged over word choices.
Only if you want to play the race card. Before the invention of electricity, if a criminal were sentenced to death, it would have to be by hanging or a firing squad.
The Alabama Power Company was founded on Dec. 4, 1906, but there were public hangings in that state until at least 1925. Eventually, the electric chair was used for executions.
"Mississippi had the highest lynchings from 1882-1968 with 581. "
What are you talking about with point B). I don't care about what's trendy, so I will stick with "terribly retarded" thank you very much. You can consider it in poor taste just as I consider grown ups acting outraged over words like monkey and public hangings in poor taste.
But you can go ahead and have your fake hissy fits. No one actually believes you're honest. You will lose elections because instead of talking about issues everyone is talking about if you should be outraged over word choices.
Stick with insulting people by calling them "retarded." Fine by me.
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Maya Angelou
She seems singularly unqualified to be in charge of ANYTHING.
I cannot imagine why anyone would vote for her but it IS Mississippi so I'm sure they will.
Apparently they NEVER tire of being last in everything.
I watched her "We already made a statement and that's all I'm going to say about that," press conference.
I can't imagine voting for this woman to make decisions about my life and my family.
She reminded me of an aging and incompetent teacher who has been passed around the district from one school to the next, one step of ahead of parents who demand she be fired.
Michael Donald was beat, murdered, and hung from a tree in 1981. But that was in Florida.
Thousands were lynched in the south. At best her "joke" was in poor taste.
At worst, her comment was a call to the KKK and their confederates.
Seems to have worked.
Even 1968 is now 50 years in the rear-view mirror. As I posted earlier:
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Yes we went over this on the other thread. If you read her exact words, there is no way to tell what she had in mind--no context. The outlet that initially reported did not provide video, either. I don't know if it has since been posted.
If she's talking about hanging a child rapist/murderer, I'm with her 100%. If she's talking about an Emmett Till, then I would have a big problem.
We don't know what she had in mind. Hence it is ignorant to even discuss what action should be taken.
But lacking any context to her words hasn't stopped the press. They simply make up the context that supports their narrative. I listen to NPR a lot, and they've been going hog wild in that vein. No context--no problem, we'll just make it up.
This is actually an example where President Trump's "enemy of the people" line does apply. And just to be clear, I'm no fan of Trump.
Trump is on the way to Mississippi to campaign for Hyde-Smith, the woman who:
- said she'd love to attend a public hanging
- sympathizes with the Confederate Army
- attended a "segratationist" school to avoid having to go to school with black kids after integration
- also sent her daughter to segratationist schools
- is on video tape saying that voter suppression of liberals is a good thing
Trump is on the way to Mississippi to campaign for Hyde-Smith, the woman who:
- said she'd love to attend a public hanging
- sympathizes with the Confederate Army
- attended a "segratationist" school to avoid having to go to school with black kids after integration
- also sent her daughter to segratationist schools
- is on video tape saying that voter suppression of liberals is a good thing
Trump is on the way to Mississippi to campaign for Hyde-Smith, the woman who:
- said she'd love to attend a public hanging
- sympathizes with the Confederate Army
- attended a "segratationist" school to avoid having to go to school with black kids after integration
- also sent her daughter to segratationist schools
- is on video tape saying that voter suppression of liberals is a good thing
Sadly, this is the America that some people want. The best we can do is fight against those persons. They only do harm.
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