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Old 4th February 2019, 01:44 PM   #321
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Originally Posted by Drewbot View Post
Megyn Kelly fired within 48 hours of saying this:

“What is racist? You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Like back when I was a kid it was okay if you were dressing up as a character.”

Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silvermen and Jimmy Fallon still doing just fine, after ACTUALLY donning blackface as recently as 2007 and 2017

This double standard is confusing.

So the governor of Virginia is going to stay on board? How do the outrage experts justify this?
And Trump despite all his racist and sexist comments and actions is also "staying on board" as you say. Not sure there is a double standard. The Governor wasn't wearing blackface last week last month, last year or even in the last 3 decades.
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Old 4th February 2019, 01:54 PM   #322
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"Does anybody think it’s any coincidence that on the eve of potentially my being elevated that that’s when this uncorroborated smear comes out?” Fairfax told reporters in the capitol upon being asked if he thought Northam, his fellow Dem, was behind the story.

holy ****, laughing here
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Old 4th February 2019, 01:56 PM   #323
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Originally Posted by Drewbot View Post
Megyn Kelly fired within 48 hours of saying this:

“What is racist? You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Like back when I was a kid it was okay if you were dressing up as a character.”

Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silvermen and Jimmy Fallon still doing just fine, after ACTUALLY donning blackface as recently as 2007 and 2017

This double standard is confusing.
Megyn Kelly was really fired for low ratings - she's simply a poor choice for a morning show host, and that was easily predictable.

And yes, comedians tasked with being outrageous for laughs are held to a different standard than governors tasked with opposing the violent white supremacism that Dolt 45 wallows in. Just like I'm held to a different standard as an engineer than my mother is as a professor in nursing. Wildly different jobs have wildly different standards.

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So the governor of Virginia is going to stay on board? How do the outrage experts justify this?
Putting aside the insult, we don't. He should resign. Fairfax is by far better equipped for the tasks at hand - standing up to violent racism, and flipping both chambers of Virginia's congress.
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Old 4th February 2019, 02:19 PM   #324
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Putting aside the insult, we don't. He should resign. Fairfax is by far better equipped for the tasks at hand - standing up to violent racism, and flipping both chambers of Virginia's congress.
NEW: An extraordinary day turns chaotic as Fairfax suggests Northam is behind "a smear" aimed at blocking his ascent to the governorship and recounts a sexual encounter with a woman he said was "very interested in me."

-J Martin NYTimes

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Old 4th February 2019, 02:26 PM   #325
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I said back in the day, not back in Northam's day. I was thinking further back than that, when it _was_ acceptable, but other things we take for granted now were not. Sorry for the confusion.
Ah, got it! And yeah, it was much more accepted if you go way back.
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Old 4th February 2019, 03:06 PM   #326
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Originally Posted by Drewbot View Post
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Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silvermen and Jimmy Fallon still doing just fine, after ACTUALLY donning blackface as recently as 2007 and 2017
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The difference is that they are comedians, not public officials expected to apply the laws and public policies equally to all. Fallon in particular has a history of impersonating a lot of celebrities, including Trump. What they do and their thinking about it has no real impact on anybody else.
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Old 4th February 2019, 03:09 PM   #327
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Originally Posted by applecorped View Post
Anyone mad at the school for publishing the photos?
I'm actually surprised that nobody has contacted the editors of the yearbook, who very likely were students themselves, for their take. Whether the picture is really Northam, or somebody else's picture on the wrong page, it shouldn't have been included at all. I'm also surprised that Northam and other students didn't get a chance to approve a page proof.
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Old 4th February 2019, 03:10 PM   #328
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Originally Posted by The Big Dog View Post
You sure about that? I mean really sure?

I betcha you could ferret out what was fallacious about the post to which I was replying to.
Nope. I got nothing. You'll have walk me through the fallacy in saying this:

"It's probably worth pointing out that Big League Politics was founded by people who left Breitbart and the Daily Caller because those outlets were too liberal."

Cause I'm not seeing it. I mean, if it's wrong or incorrect (i.e. BLP was founded before Breitbart and the Daily Caller existed; or if BLP is actually more liberal than the others; or something else that makes that sentence incorrect) I guess that would make it fallacious. But you don't seem to want to explain what's fallacious about it so I'm having to make wild guesses like that.

Other than to say "because none of those organizations existed when he was in medical school and therefore it seems very fallacious", which I don't really understand.

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Old 4th February 2019, 03:27 PM   #329
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Nope. I got nothing. You'll have walk me through the fallacy in saying this:

"It's probably worth pointing out that Big League Politics was founded by people who left Breitbart and the Daily Caller because those outlets were too liberal."

Cause I'm not seeing it. I mean, if it's wrong or incorrect (i.e. BLP was founded before Breitbart and the Daily Caller existed; or if BLP is actually more liberal than the others; or something else that makes that sentence incorrect) I guess that would make it fallacious. But you don't seem to want to explain what's fallacious about it so I'm having to make wild guesses like that.

Other than to say "because none of those organizations existed when he was in medical school and therefore it seems very fallacious", which I don't really understand.
What is fallacious about it of course is that the fact that actual genuine photo was released by "people who left Breitbart and the Daily Caller because those outlets were too liberal" is a grotesque red herring/ad hominem and in fact does not in any way shape of form rebut the actual racist photo. the only way it would be 'worthwhile" to note is if those entities were somehow involved in setting up the racist when he took his racist photo, for example.

Which we all know is ludicrous just like we all know that the original post was a grotesque red herring/ad hominem.
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Old 4th February 2019, 03:46 PM   #330
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Why doesn't he just change his party to Republican? Because then he'll have an entire party and president defending him.
Oh, the Republicans would never have him. You know how some people are snobs about owning their own tux when yours is rented? They're like that about the KKK robes.
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Old 4th February 2019, 04:11 PM   #331
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Originally Posted by The Big Dog View Post
You sure about that? I mean really sure?

I betcha you could ferret out what was fallacious about the post to which I was replying to.

here is another hint: attacking the messenger.

I'd love to see someone who claims to know something about fallacies to take a deep dive into that post.

Regale me with your expertise.
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What is fallacious about it of course is that the fact that actual genuine photo was released by "people who left Breitbart and the Daily Caller because those outlets were too liberal" is a grotesque red herring/ad hominem and in fact does not in any way shape of form rebut the actual racist photo. the only way it would be 'worthwhile" to note is if those entities were somehow involved in setting up the racist when he took his racist photo, for example.

Which we all know is ludicrous just like we all know that the original post was a grotesque red herring/ad hominem.

LOL, now you're just throwing words around. (Not "literally" by the way.) After reading a couple of pages of that tu quoque fallacy thread, I don't have much hope for this, but... A fallacy is a flaw in a logical argument. My "deep dive into that post" encountered no argument, but rather the same thing Matthew Best found -- an assertion of historical fact -- and if you disagree with that assertion, then you should just say what you're disagreeing with. If you think there was an implicit argument in the post, then once again, I recommend that you first identify the argument before trying to analyze it. (You could even ask something like, "So, are you saying..." to clarify the implicit argument. Really, you can do that.) Or, you could just point out a possible logical fallacy that SB might be making, e.g. "Just because they're professional ratfkers doesn't mean the story is false." Your "rebuttal" about when those organizations formed didn't make any sense at all, and now you're claiming that simply pointing out their origin story is an "attack."
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Ah, the fallacious statement was not a fallacy.

Because our correspondent was just stating a "historical" "fact" and not making an argument.

"It's probably worth pointing out that Big League Politics was founded by people who left Breitbart and the Daily Caller because those outlets were too liberal." Historical fact? (forget it TBD, he's rolling)

Say, lets take a gander at that next level nonsense that is being peddled in this thread, shall we folks?

DEFINITION TIME!

"Red herring is a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. In literature, this fallacy is often used in detective or suspense novels to mislead readers or characters, or to induce them to make false conclusions."

b-b-b-bu-but we was not making teh argument at all!

pointing out the "historical origins" of the entities that exposed the monstrous Democrat racist is grotesque red herring of the most basic sort. This is so obvious... just really at a loss to understand the spectacularly frivolous and silly arguments around here sometimes.

/Hoo boy, the next level nonsense I have to deal with around here

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Old 4th February 2019, 04:56 PM   #333
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1984 -- I believe that was right around the time Eddie Murphy was doing a standup bit about gays and AIDS. "I don't like it when the girls kiss their gay friends and then they come home with AIDS on their lips!!"

Still, I'm wondering how that photo got past the yearbook approval staff. Even several years earlier I know nothing of the sort would have gotten into my high school yearbook.
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Ah, the fallacious statement was not a fallacy.

Because our correspondent was just stating a "historical" "fact" and not making an argument.

"It's probably worth pointing out that Big League Politics was founded by people who left Breitbart and the Daily Caller because those outlets were too liberal." Historical fact? (forget it TBD, he's rolling)

Say, lets take a gander at that next level nonsense that is being peddled in this thread, shall we folks?

DEFINITION TIME!

"Red herring is a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue. In literature, this fallacy is often used in detective or suspense novels to mislead readers or characters, or to induce them to make false conclusions."

b-b-b-bu-but we was not making teh argument at all!

pointing out the "historical origins" of the entities that exposed the monstrous Democrat racist is grotesque red herring of the most basic sort. This is so obvious... just really at a loss to understand the spectacularly frivolous and silly arguments around here sometimes.

/Hoo boy, the next level nonsense I have to deal with around here
A false statement does not constitute a logical fallacy. Something can be true and a statement about it can still be a fallacy.

If you don't understand this, you should consider taking a class in logical reasoning.
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A false statement does not constitute a logical fallacy. Something can be true and a statement about it can still be a fallacy.

If you don't understand this, you should consider taking a class in logical reasoning.
Fortunately as i have expertly shown, here it is a fallacy, your first sentence is stated incorrectly, and yall will to take your own advice, you dig?
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It was just a silly joke. A black guy (white dude in blackface) having a beer with a Klansman. There's nothing racist in that.

As for other pictures, I don't see any in that article.

This is a molehill, not a mountain.
You're assuming a lot. How does the script read from where you are? That this was a doubles act and that was their whole schtick? They spent the whole night moving from group to group to group doing their satire?

Or was this one dude dressed in blackface and another dude dressed as a Klansman and someone decided it'd make a great picture.

You don't know. You're just twisting yourself into pretzels to give the benefit of the doubt to two jackasses who, by 1984, thought it was funny to dress up in racist memes. This is second cousin to "They didn't mean no harm. Jus' a couple of good old boys havin' theyself some fun." Except that they're not making that excuse, you're making it for them.
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Fortunately as i have expertly shown, here it is a fallacy, your first sentence is stated incorrectly, and yall will to take your own advice, you dig?
Sorry, you're wrong.. Something that is false is not necessarily a logical fallacy. Whether something is true or false may have nothing to do whether a fallacy is involved.

A fallacy is an improperly constructed syllogism.
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1984 -- I believe that was right around the time Eddie Murphy was doing a standup bit about gays and AIDS. "I don't like it when the girls kiss their gay friends and then they come home with AIDS on their lips!!"

Still, I'm wondering how that photo got past the yearbook approval staff. Even several years earlier I know nothing of the sort would have gotten into my high school yearbook.
He surely knew that was in the yearbook. It's a bit baffling how incompetent his response has been when he should have known his entire political career that this was coming. You'd think he'd have the "when picture comes out break glass" plan ready to go. He's just bouncing from one bumble **** to the next, throwing gas on the fire as he goes. How could he not have a plan for this?
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He surely knew that was in the yearbook. It's a bit baffling how incompetent his response has been when he should have known his entire political career that this was coming. You'd think he'd have the "when picture comes out break glass" plan ready to go. He's just bouncing from one bumble **** to the next, throwing gas on the fire as he goes. How could he not have a plan for this?
Did he? I never remember looking at any college yearbook. If there was one, I never saw it. And this was 35 years ago. Didn't he have a medical career. And lots of things happened since. I think you are making an assumption that may not be valid.
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He surely knew that was in the yearbook. It's a bit baffling how incompetent his response has been when he should have known his entire political career that this was coming. You'd think he'd have the "when picture comes out break glass" plan ready to go. He's just bouncing from one bumble **** to the next, throwing gas on the fire as he goes. How could he not have a plan for this?
Considering how common it was at the school he went to, he might have thought everybody did it. So there was need for a response, not realizing what a bizarre racist anachronism he was engaging in.
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How do the outrage experts justify this?
Well it's your straw man. You tell me what he's saying.
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Ah, got it! And yeah, it was much more accepted if you go way back.
Woah. I clarified my comment and my interlocutor actually understood it! What witchcraft is this?
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Considering how common it was at the school he went to, he might have thought everybody did it. So there was need for a response, not realizing what a bizarre racist anachronism he was engaging in.
I really think he may not even thought about it in 25 years. Memories fade and get jumbled. I've seen way too many memory experiments to say what somebody should or shouldn't have remembered.

Now if the Governor bought and kept the yearbook and looked it 100 times, he has no excuse.
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The difference is that they are comedians, not public officials expected to apply the laws and public policies equally to all. Fallon in particular has a history of impersonating a lot of celebrities, including Trump. What they do and their thinking about it has no real impact on anybody else.
Even comedians it can go over badly. Ted Danson's blackface bit with did not go over well. But again, not a political representative.
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The lieutenant governor was the source for the original story as he was trying to get the governor out of the way so he could take over but now the tables have been turned
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You're assuming a lot. How does the script read from where you are? That this was a doubles act and that was their whole schtick? They spent the whole night moving from group to group to group doing their satire?

Or was this one dude dressed in blackface and another dude dressed as a Klansman and someone decided it'd make a great picture.

You don't know. You're just twisting yourself into pretzels to give the benefit of the doubt to two jackasses who, by 1984, thought it was funny to dress up in racist memes.
Yeah, imagine that. Giving the benefit of the doubt in the absence of clear evidence. What kind of a crazy idiot would do that?

You're right. We should jump right to conclusions instead and interpret in the worst possible light. That'll get our collective outrage going and we can all have a nice feeling of belonging to the right "side".

You don't know either. You're assuming it was racist because you've become conditioned to see certain things as racist. That's twisting yourself into pretzels. You just can't accept that anyone would have a different opinion. Par for the course here, I guess.
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Yeah, imagine that. Giving the benefit of the doubt in the absence of clear evidence. What kind of a crazy idiot would do that?

You're right. We should jump right to conclusions instead and interpret in the worst possible light. That'll get our collective outrage going and we can all have a nice feeling of belonging to the right "side".

You don't know either. You're assuming it was racist because you've become conditioned to see certain things as racist. That's twisting yourself into pretzels. You just can't accept that anyone would have a different opinion. Par for the course here, I guess.
No.

You should simply not jump to conclusions, especially made-up conclusions. I'm not assuming it was racist. You can win the internets if you show me where I said that. I'm assuming it's tone deaf to think that someone who grew up in Virginia in the 60s and 70s was not aware that this was no longer a thing one did. See, I'm not making that judgement, you are. You are offering a hypothetical as to his possible motivation when there's no evidence at all. I'm offering what should be a pretty blatant fact by now... at minimum this was grossly insensitive.

My problem is not with the stupid act, although I don't buy into the "just a kid" since he was 26. My problem is with his immediate reaction being to just do the crocodile tears "that's not the me that I've become" routine, then walk that back with a ridiculous "oops, I thought this was about that time I put shoe polish on my face to portray the whitest black man in America".
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A false statement does not constitute a logical fallacy. Something can be true and a statement about it can still be a fallacy.

If you don't understand this, you should consider taking a class in logical reasoning.
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Sorry, you're wrong.. Something that is false is not necessarily a logical fallacy. Whether something is true or false may have nothing to do whether a fallacy is involved.

A fallacy is an improperly constructed syllogism.
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My problem is not with the stupid act, although I don't buy into the "just a kid" since he was 26. My problem is with his immediate reaction being to just do the crocodile tears "that's not the me that I've become" routine, then walk that back with a ridiculous "oops, I thought this was about that time I put shoe polish on my face to portray the whitest black man in America".
At this point it doesn't really matter what he actually did. The reality is that he cannot function effectively as governor for the next 3+ years. He has to go away.
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At this point it doesn't really matter what he actually did. The reality is that he cannot function effectively as governor for the next 3+ years. He has to go away.
Yeah, the "I'm not a racist, I'm just incredibly stupid!" defense isn't really a great argument for why he should stay in power.
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Old 4th February 2019, 08:49 PM   #351
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You don't know. You're just twisting yourself into pretzels to give the benefit of the doubt to two jackasses who, by 1984, thought it was funny to dress up in racist memes. This is second cousin to "They didn't mean no harm. Jus' a couple of good old boys havin' theyself some fun." Except that they're not making that excuse, you're making it for them.
Exactly this. Besides the minimization going on in this thread, there is mild apologetics, and liberal use of the Nirvana Fallacy for good measure. Also, I wonder if the downplayers really realize how condescending it is to have a bunch of white people telling black folks to just get over it; this little bit of racism is fine in our public elected leaders 'cause looky over there and see how much worse those guys are!

I sincerely hope that no one ever wonders why our country and "leaders" are rocketing to the bottom especially with the rather odd way of not holding... well... anyone really... to any standards of decency.
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Related but slightly off topic question. I can understand many contexts in which blackface is inappropriate/racist such as the KKK picture that started this or any instance where it is done to demean, or denigrate black people or the struggles they've had to face.

The only instance where I personally wouldn't consider it racist is if someone respected or admired someone and wanted to go all out to look as much like them as possible for a costume party or cosplay or something along those lines. However, I know that many feel this is still racist. Could someone who feels this way explain their perspective. I apologize if this has already been covered in this thread, but I really didn't want to read through 10 pages to find out.
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Old 4th February 2019, 09:00 PM   #353
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Exactly this. Besides the minimization going on in this thread, there is mild apologetics, and liberal use of the Nirvana Fallacy for good measure. Also, I wonder if the downplayers really realize how condescending it is to have a bunch of white people telling black folks to just get over it; this little bit of racism is fine in our public elected leaders 'cause looky over there and see how much worse those guys are!

I sincerely hope that no one ever wonders why our country and "leaders" are rocketing to the bottom especially with the rather odd way of not holding... well... anyone really... to any standards of decency.
I'm not telling ANYONE to get over it. People have to decide for themselves. I, speaking for myself just have a problem judging a person 35 years post hoc for such a mistake. But I'm NOT a person of color or a citizen of Virginia.
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I'm not telling ANYONE to get over it. People have to decide for themselves. I, speaking for myself just have a problem judging a person 35 years post hoc for such a mistake. But I'm NOT a person of color or a citizen of Virginia.
Forgiveness isn't a time bomb that eventually goes off on its own. It must first be requested. Northam was requesting it, then he changed his mind. If he doesn't want it, then he doesn't deserve it.
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Just spitballing for context on the getups pictured: could these have been worn to a party either themed as or prizes for 'Most Outrageous' or 'Most Tasteless' costumes? Trying to picture how these could have gotten past the yearbook editors without some kind of justification, crass though it may have been.
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Forgiveness isn't a time bomb that eventually goes off on its own. It must first be requested. Northam was requesting it, then he changed his mind. If he doesn't want it, then he doesn't deserve it.
35 years later he shouldn't have to require forgiveness IMV. But as I said, thats an individual perspective.
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Originally Posted by Thermal View Post
Just spitballing for context on the getups pictured: could these have been worn to a party either themed as or prizes for 'Most Outrageous' or 'Most Tasteless' costumes? Trying to picture how these could have gotten past the yearbook editors without some kind of justification, crass though it may have been.
If there had been some kind of "Dumbass Moments" section in the yearbook, with descriptive captions, that might -- maybe -- have worked. But this ran on the guy's personal page, without any explanation. Even if it was intended for somebody else's page, it shouldn't have been in the book at all.

And the focus on the "blackface" is a distraction. The KKK costume is what's horrifying. There are no circumstances in which America's oldest domestic terrorists can be treated as a laughing matter.
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Blimey. You'd have thought that someone who's been as clearly and openly critical of Northam as I have been in this thread wouldn't be accused of trying to distract from accusations against Northam, but here we are.

Once more, for the record - I think Northam should be impeached. I think he should be removed from office. I don't buy the excuses some are making for him, and I think that his behaviour since the photo came to light has only made the case for removing him stronger.

And just to reiterate, as I have to do every now and then for the hard of thinking - I'm not partisan. I do not favour Democrats over Republicans. One contributing factor to this - I'm not American. I belong to neither party, and neither party means anything to me. Nobody discussed in this subforum represents me, or is someone I have any kind of emotional attachment to - because I'm not American. And, frankly, I come from a country in which the default behaviour is to distrust, criticise, and mock politicians. The reverence with which some Americans regard politicians on their "side" seems very odd to me, and a little creepy. And, given that it leads to the kind of thoughtless god-worship of Trump that exists (and nonsense platitudes like that people should "respect the office of President" even if they don't respect the person), I think it's also dangerous.

Oh, and, if you read what I posted and what I posted it in reply to, and think really, really hard (you know, until it hurts), it should be possible to work out that it had absolutely nothing to do with any photo at all. Give it a try! It's fun!
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And just to reiterate, as I have to do every now and then for the hard of thinking - I'm not partisan. I do not favour Democrats over Republicans. One contributing factor to this - I'm not American. I belong to neither party, and neither party means anything to me. Nobody discussed in this subforum represents me, or is someone I have any kind of emotional attachment to - because I'm not American.
No, but you live in reality, which has a well-documented liberal bias.
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No.

You should simply not jump to conclusions, especially made-up conclusions.
FMW, that was my point. By offering alternative possibilities, I'm not saying that those possibilities MUST be true. I'm saying that the previously stated possibility is not necessarily true. Is that clearer?

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I'm not assuming it was racist. You can win the internets if you show me where I said that.
I didn't say you said it. I opined that you thought it. Obviously it's speculation, since I'm not in your head.

Think about it this way: if someone drew a black man and a KKK member having coffee together, as a sort of newspaper cartoon about whatever, would that be racist? Not necessarily, eh? Maybe they have a point to make, or are just making a funny (in their mind) juxtaposition, etc. The bit that bothers you is the blackface, but even that isn't necessarily meant as some sort of attack on black people. Maybe it's tone deaf, sure, but that's not the same thing as being racist.

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My problem is not with the stupid act, although I don't buy into the "just a kid" since he was 26. My problem is with his immediate reaction being to just do the crocodile tears "that's not the me that I've become" routine, then walk that back with a ridiculous "oops, I thought this was about that time I put shoe polish on my face to portray the whitest black man in America".
Oh, I agree with that. It doesn't look good for him at all.
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