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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 169: Check Your (Attorney-Client) Privilege |
| Forceful_Dragon 04/21/18 2:14:46 PM #482: | "Take your muskets to the street" is a reasonable joke to reasonable people. But that same line to unstable people might make them jump to the wrong conclusion. Just like how a racist will take "keeping criminals and other unsavory characters off our streets" to have very racially discriminating connotations. That doesn't mean the original remark was made with that intent, but that's how it could be taken by some and then used as a rallying point to justify reprehensible actions. . And there is still the chance that messages like that are actually made with the intent to send the bad message under the guise of something politically correct. It can be difficult to sort one from the other. Its not as though someone will come out and say "well yeah i was using my remarks as a dog whistle for group X". Thats a judgement others have to make based on their previous statements and actions. This is also why extreme Trump supported can have a field day saying "well he had to say something nice because it was in his speech but you can tell what he really meant was....". And its hard to fault them on that assessment based on Trump sordid past. . Though it sounds like in this case NEITHER of you are defending the extremists on your respective sides so im not sure what the problem is. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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