All 226,719 of you
Must be a nice place to live
White Supremacist , Mr King says , âŚ
Sure, Stevie -
Now perhaps youâd like to explain that little deal about âHispanic youths with calves like cantaloupesâ, since youâre sooo misunderstood and âtaken out of contextâ.
Scumbag.
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Wonder if thereâs a good word for those 226,719âŚ
Their support of an open racist is simply Deplorable.
Wonder what we could call themâŚ
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Iâm sorry, in what context did you think those words would be acceptable?
Fuckwtizzle.
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The 2018 vote was a lot closerâŚ
He is toast in 2020âŚ
With a tip of the hat to the memory of the much-missed Molly Ivins, I have to say that this quote didnât sound any better in the original German either.
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How do you take straight up shit like that out of context? hahahahahaha Do you mean there were words around those words? I donât think they changed the meanings of âwhite supremacyâ and âwhite nationalismâ because those words speak for themselves.
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Nice try but extremely lame.
Wait. Thereâs an appropriate context for âwhite supremacy is awesome?â I mean, outside of a KKK rally?
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In all call outs of RWNJ types- thinking of the talkers- there are 3 Levels of excuse.
Excuse 1: âContextâ. The first and always excuse is the âcontextâ excuse. The context excuse is always proclaimed but never explained. This is what we have here.
Excuse 2: âThis is a Trialâ. The offending words are spread over a legal sounding sophistry that begs the listener to consult âthe entire trial recordâ so to speak for a different truer understanding. If you are listening to this argument and say to yourself âWell we donât have the transcript/recording right here right nowâ youâve heard the âThis is a trialâ dodge.
Excuse 3: âYou donât have the decoder ring, you dummyâ. This is a simple ad hominem attack. You heard the words, you listen to the show, you saw the segment, but you just donât understand. Thatâs what it sounds like. With the incessant RWNJ slander of their fellow Americans, this is easy to miss. Sean Hannity is an adept.
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BAlding, stupid and racist is no way to go through life sir.
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Much like Trump this idiot doesnât live in a vacuum and he didnât elect himself into office. I wish the media would spend less time worrying about a few racist (or opportunistic) politicians say and more time on who is voting for them and why. Hint - it ainât economic anxiety.
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Steve Kingâs life and belief system are out of context. He belongs in 1933 Germany.
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King âno no no, itâs all out of context! I mean, of course Iâm a racist, Iâm just not an asshole murdering racist⌠ok?â
(crickets)
(lots and lots of crickets these days)
Excuse 4: âIt was a joke, of course I wasnât seriousâ.
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Iâd settle for holding republicans at least as responsible for all the offensive things other republicans say as Democrats are held responsible for all comments by nominally âliberalâ cultural figures.
Have Kevin McCarthy and other republican leaders been asked if they support Kingâs comments the way Pelosi
was asked about Rep Tlaibâs swear words?
Democrats get hounded for the difference between âdisagreeâ and âunequivocally condemnâ for off hand comments by marginal figures, but Paul Ryan says âI wish the head of my party wouldnât use racist slurs in front of the national pressâ and the pundits let him off. Itâs infuriating.
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How many times has King tossed out something reprehensible? After a while in his case the context becomes irrelevant.
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Theyâre anxious that black and brown people will outcompete them in the labor market. Theyâre anxious that immigration will depress wages, and the size of their bonuses and raises will decrease. Theyâre anxious that black and brown people are an outsize burden on public assistance programs, leading to higher taxes and fewer or worse services for Right-and-Good Republicans. Theyâre anxious that their children and grandchildren will be worse-off financially because âthose people are stealing it all.â I suggest that it is economic anxiety; itâs just a variety that is inseparable from the racist and selfish ideas that inform it.
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He did not obviously learn from the Master Racist.
He should have said, âI am the least racist person I knowâ.
But canât blame him. Being the world recognized leading historian of languages and words, his question was a very technical one of interests to academics: at what point in time in the history of the great western civilization did the phrase âwhite supremacistâ become a dirty word.