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political correctness is causing VA dems to implode.
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Del. Lamont Bagby (D-Richmond), chairman of the caucus, looked sullen. Asked about the cascading scandals, Bagby said, “I imagine we’re not praying enough.”
State Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) sent a text while she was in the meeting with Herring that said “This is freakin screwed up!”
Virginia’s capital has absorbed one shocking blow after another, and while Herring had issued a statement Saturday calling for Northam to resign, he had not been seen or heard from publicly since then.
The Legislative Black Caucus, which has also called on Northam to resign, canceled a press conference that had been scheduled for Wednesday morning as rumors spread that another bombshell was about to drop.
IMO, the hypocritical, politically correct notion that every second of an individual's life must be perfect - and should be subject to the scrutiny and moral judgment of every political opponent, robs America of good potential leaders. Many/most have not lived perfect lives and don't want their families dragged through the mud over a youthful indiscretion.
Having said that, I despise the Governor's recent position on killing infants after delivery, abhor true racism - and am, in a sense, glad to see a democrat actually held to the same standard as Republicans -- by the left. Still, I don't think many could (or should have to) stand-up to this type of narrow, over-the-top, career destroying, righteous indignation over a 30+-year old college 'prank.'
Pretty soon they will start carting out old photos of people getting tans. Oh for the grace of God they are trying to change their skin color just to mock other people. Lord Almighty!!!
This blackface business is part of southern culture like the stars and bars. It's what they do when they party. We can't kick people out in VA for doing this when they were kids. Won't be anyone left.
What is the obsession with blackface? why not just wear a mask? strange
The problem is that insisting that a person having once worn "blackface" disqualifies people from holding public office, not to mention insisting that it disqualifies a current officeholder, is ridiculous. This is the Democrat left's neo-Marxist "Political correctness" lynch mob style orthodoxy enforcement agenda going off of the rails, yet again.
Talk about evil. This Democrat left driven agenda and its methods are consistently far worse than whatever they are hunting down to ruin and destroy.
It is a mistake to concede the premises that this agenda promotes, even if it provides an opportunity to hoist these people by their own petards, as many are cheering for here and with the Lieutenant Governor's pending sexual assault charge.
We must realize that the enemy here is this vile agenda, and not the individuals who might be hurt by it. We need to step back and not allow ourselves to fail to see the forest because we are busy dealing with the trees.
The effort to disqualify this governor and having him removed for office for having worn blackface is a big mistake. Likewise for anyone else that is determined to have behaved similarly.
Try to maintain some perspective here, people. The enemy here is not these people. It is the Democrat left's extremely vile, uncivil and thoroughly intolerant "Political correctness" agenda.
Do you think if the dems are given a pass on this one that they'll return the favor if the situation comes up again in the reverse? No, they will simply say "well this time it's different" and continue on with their crusade. At some point they've got to realize that all this tactic of digging 30 years in to people's past for dirt is doing is tearing apart the cohesion of our society. It's time for them to back off on this crap. Maybe making them realize that they're wielding a double edged sword will help them realize it more quickly.
But you're not entirely wrong. If Northam goes down we get to eat popcorn and watch dems get hoisted by their own petard, and if he gets away with it we'll have a precedent to point to next time they try this on another republican. It looks like a win/win from my seat in the bleachers.
What he did was not racism though, he liked that certain rapper, and was going dressed as him...its not like he was doing this to mock black people or anything.
Apparently it is just as bad. Besides the photo or Northam, people are outraged about his dressing up like Michael Jackson for a dance competition. It doesn't matter your intent--like if you are honoring an entertainer because you like them so much. It just cannot be done.
Unfortunately college kids in the 80s didn't think much about that. There were tons of white kids dressing up as Michael Jackson and Prince in the 1980s.
What is the obsession with blackface? why not just wear a mask? strange
I mean, is it a Virginia thing? I was in college in the 80's and I never heard of anyone doing it; never thought about it; and I never saw anyone do it.
political correctness is causing VA dems to implode.
This ^ 100%.
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