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darkknight109 posted...

I completely realize that, because the idea that old people get a pass on racism because "they're too old to understand it" or something, is inherently ludicrous. That's exactly what I'm trying to highlight for you, so I'm glad you at least partially understand it.

Your opinions are inherently ludicrous and more out of the touch than those ascribed to the elderly.

darkknight109 posted...

You don't know how old I am, so you don't actually have a basis for saying that.

You keep quoting and responding with variations of this, so I won't bother with individual responses to each of your overly defensive protests. After all, I want to finish my response within the same week.

darkknight109 posted...

Contrary to your assertions, a decent leader does not need to spend time "studying" what language is and is not acceptable, because they simply don't use language that ever even borders on offensive. Again, I'm not familiar with any president of either party in the last ~40 years having an issue with this. Perhaps I have forgotten a faux pas somewhere, but it's definitely not a common event.

Contrary to your assertion, that's the realm of mediocre leaders who concern themselves almost entirely with appearance rather than substance. It also leads to bad policy.

darkknight109 posted...

Not my country, so I didn't particularly care at that point. I kept abreast of the highlights, but did I actually pay any substantial attention to the primaries? No, and I never have.

For a nation other than your own, you have an enormous fixation. I could have swore you referencing having been active in certain states, though.

darkknight109 posted...

Fascinating, but I'm still not seeing a source (for your previous comment - I did find Bernie's comments on race you're referencing here, unrelated and irrelevant to the discussion though they may be). And no, "the primaries" are not a source. That's like me saying "Yes, I found this fact - it's in the Encyclopedia Britannica."

Which once again comes under the realm of "I want to finish my response within this week" since I don't feel like poring over transcripts or rewatching everything.

darkknight109 posted...

So, funny thing about that - I didn't actually look up the full context when you originally referenced it and I just did. Turns out she never actually calls African Americans "superpredators" - she just says that juvenile gangs connected to drug cartels are "superpredators" that have no conscience or empathy, never suggesting that the gangs were composed of African Americans.

Which is something I'll have to confirm when I feel like wasting a week responding to an inconsequential argument.

darkknight109 posted...

Trump and Reince Priebus attempted to slag her with it in an attempt to reduce her standing with African American voters and, to be fair, Clinton did apologize when pressed by BLM reps (I suspect more out of a sense of political expediency than anything else), but her initial comments weren't nearly as controversial as you're suggesting. And you sound like you were pretty young in the 90s, if you were alive at all, so I'll go ahead and point out that nothing of what she said would have raised many eyebrows back then.

99% sure that Bernie supporters started tossing that out there first, but it's been a long-standing criticism of Hillary regardless.
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