I disagree. The connection between lynching and the way black people were treated is not obscure. It wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun to tweet something like “@LorrettaLynch: why not let a grand jury decide?” With the “lynch” tweet he can have his snicker and “we want our country back” moment and pretend that he wasn’t using the dog whistle.
The fact that Trump’s son-in-law and daughter are Jewish has been known for a long time. The fact that he wasn’t sensitive to the symbol is even more damning if he not only “loves Jewish people” but actually has people he loves who are Jewish.
In every Digital Literacy lesson that students (of all ages) are required to take, a major concept is that you can’t take back things that get posted on the internet. As a public figure, regardless of whether you are a politician, a professional such as a lawyer, a physician, or a teacher, or, really, as a human being who is concerned with what other people think of you, you are careful what you tweet or retweet. As a public figure (especially one who believes that he is qualified to govern a state and who is currently a surrogate for a presidential candidate) he should know to read his postings for potential problems.
We would not accept this sloppiness from any other public figure. We should not accept it from these public figures.
Having said that, you may have a point that the charge of racism may lose its impact, but I can’t help but think that we still need to point it out. Perhaps the response should be on the incompetence of a campaign and candidate that doesn’t focus on management. That might hurt him worse than the charge of racism. But racism is still racism, and being insensitive to the symbols of past abuses is incompetent–for those who use them and for the audience who receives it.
The Irish weren’t considered white either. Thus, the Black Irish. I had no idea until recently about this.
What makes me pretty sure it was deliberate is that the response was another attack. Not “sorry for the typo” or “Gee, we never intended to do that.” Just another swing at the same old targets.
Underware is software that runs in the background.
This ‘acquaintance’ between Trump and Lind is beyond the pale.
Here’s another reference to a William Lind/Anders Breivik connection per Alternet.org in 2011:
http://www.alternet.org/story/151814/norwegian_shooting_suspect’s_'manifesto’_inspired_by_american_right-wing_thinkers
In Lind’s book that @bluestatedon references-- in one chapter-- it describes a scenario in a post-democracy USA-- where downtown ATL is thermo-nuked to tamp an AA uprising.
And RWNJs want to give Trump the football?
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Imagine if you will a more vulgar, more racist, stupider version of Maine’s Paul LePage.
Ahhh… Donald the (alleged) man child rapist. Sorry! typo… I meant Racist… Darn this new fangled technology.
When will they come up with a proper autocorrect?
‘Underware’ can be software or hardware depending upon how big a shitstain we are dealing with… In this case, I think hardware is more appropriate…
It’d be a lot easier to swallow if surrogates and candidate alike weren’t such awful bigots in the first place.
More likely scenario: “HUH HUH HUH ME SO POLITIKAL INCORRECKT!! TAKE THAT, WOMAN! HUH HUH HU…UH OH, BRAIN JUST KICKED IN, DELETE DELETE DELETE!!”
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Paladino can’t be blamed on Trump. He was essentially wired that way…
The fact that Carl Paladino is a Trump surrogate at all is the interesting part.
Trump has a laundry list of bigots, full blown racists, woman haters and mean people that represent him.
Paladino is just par for the course.
We will not lynch Trump and his racist full staff but we would love to just tar & feather the whole clan and throw them out of Town.Just like they did in the “Old Days” .
Funny how people who aren’t racists in the first place don’t seem to make these kind of “mistakes” though…
I’m really getting tired of Trump and his posse’s goto excuse for when they repeatedly screw up being that they are new to all this and made an honest mistake. Listen hear idiots. That is why we want experienced people as president. Nobody wants to suffer through your sure to be frequent on the job mistakes as the most powerful person in the world. We don’t need an Urkel presidency.
Typical Trump surrogate…an idiot.
Okay, so they think we’re stupid. They tweet their dog whistles and claim later it wasn’t them, it was a staffer. Drumpf supporters may love this, but the rest of us, not so much.
Screw you, you raging asshole – err, no offense, I meant, Do you know what time it is?
Er, “undentified?”
Absolutely!