Discussion for article #237672
“You know, more than 100 years ago, Upton Sinclair wrote this, that it’s difficult to get a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” – Al Gore
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Well DUH!
Racists vote.
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Admission by the Republican Party that this was racist crime is being forced to deal and face with the same demons (a.k.a Tea Party, Steve King, Donald trump) alive within their own Party. It is a dark territory no Republican wants to venture into or explore.
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The media needs to not let Nikki Haley “shrug off” a question about the flag. She needs to be hounded mecilessly until she answers the question. Why do you have a racist flag fly above the capital, and why was it not half staff as flags were in the rest of the state. Dont give her a pass. Nobody gave the 9 victims one.
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When your ENTIRE identity is based upon lies and misdirection, you cannot EVER admit that you are wrong on ANY of them, or that calls into question the others.
There is nothing an Absolutist hates more that inconvenient FACTS that prove him wrong.
He will do what all 6-year-olds do. Stick his fingers in his ears and yell “LALALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!”
If you do get him to listen he will then attack you for “not respecting my firmly-held beliefs” and blame you for not “believing enough” in his cause. Eventually it will devolve into “dark conspiracies” against him that somehow everyone but him are participating in, but NO ONE talks about.
It is after all, all about “HIM”.
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To be fair to Jeb, in context the “I don’t know” was followed by "Looks like to me it was.” I don’t think that’s really refusing to admit that the Charleston shooting was racially motivated.
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For all practical purposes the Civil War never ended. Appomattox was merely a pause button, a ruse to paper over hostilites that persist to this day.
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Meanwhile, South Carolina was one of the first to add more restrictions on voting after the Supreme Court cut away at the Voting Rights Act and Republicans continue to pursue new voting rights restrictions aimed at black and Latino citizens
I’d like someone to ask the five Supremes who struck down section 4 of the Voting Rights Act if they still think racism is dead in this country.
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Thank you ScottNAlanta!!!
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The republicans don’t want to openly admit that racists are a part of their base and they don’t want to chase away their voters and their donations.
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Do you really think they give a damn?
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No, it was about as half assed an answer as the one Kasich gave. Bush led with “I have no idea”, and then buttressed that up with even more comments about who can know the heart and mind behind such an act. And then he tossed out the “looks like it” at the very end.
That’s a CYA delivery. He cannot be taken down by either side for it. If the racists in SC start up a whisper campaign, he can just say…“hey, I have no idea…I said I have no idea”. If the public pressure builds to a cacophony against these denials, he can point to “hey, I said it looks like it was”.
The reality is that everyone with half a brain knows what was behind this, even before the shooter started bragging to everyone that would listen. The fact that he DID brag about it just makes these type of statements even more detestable.
Because, as I said earlier, the only reason for mealy mouthing around this is because…he wants those racists to vote for him, and doesn’t want to risk angering them.
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I say we free the GOP from the tyranny of political correctness so they can be themselves, so that we can know them for what they are.
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Bush is a profile in cowardice. He hasn’t given a straight answer to anything. Even his logo thinks his last name = !
He needs to go!
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Repubs have welcomed racists to their party for decades…
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Have the government issue a gun to everyone. Require that they carry it with them when they’re in public.
The next time something like this happens, and no one stops it, the Republicans will no longer have the “if only someone there had been armed” excuse.
Perhaps then we can move on.
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What, like the leopard welcomes spots?
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The argument that “it’s part of our history” doesn’t wash. South Carolina was a British colony for almost 150 years, 30x longer than it was in the CSA, yet it doesn’t fly the Union Jack.
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McCain answered that question with candor 15 years ago. From the Washington Post:
Even Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — a media darling in the run-up to the 2000 Republican primaries — had to flip-flop about Columbia’s Confederate flag. He was for removing the flag from the State House before he was against it. Then, he was for it again.
“I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary,” McCain said in 2000. ”So I chose to compromise my principles. I broke my promise to always tell the truth.”
There you have it. They know their Republican base is made up of mostly racists. They pander to them with soft racism and racist dog whistle statements in order to get elected.
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