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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRalph Northam: "No one's going to be more insensitive on race issues than me this year."
Ralph Northam: "No one's going to be more insensitive on race issues than me this year."
Liam Neeson: "Hold my beer."
Trump: "I'm giving a speech tomorrow..."
underpants
(183,585 posts)Musta missed that one
bearsfootball516
(6,378 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)which it sounds like he's saying, I don't have a big problem with it - other than a concern that this sort of thing shouldn't just casually be thrown out there but should be done in very carefully thought out ways if they are to be a teaching moment.
TeamPooka
(24,447 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)unblock
(52,869 posts)personally, i think the context is pretty far from soul-searching confession.
well, at least he's characterizing the behavior as horrible....
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)watch him again. I don't care the color of the person he says he wanted to murder, and frankly I don't even care if it's all a phony bid for attention.
cyndensco
(1,700 posts)I was beginning to think it was only me that had deal breakers.
Confessing he wanted to kill a person because his friend was raped is a deal breaker for me. That he targeted black people is particularly offensive - I am sick and tired of being held responsible for acts committed by someone who looks like me.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)assholism designed to puff up his brand for his consumers, I don't shop that market.
underpants
(183,585 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,186 posts)"I went up and down areas with a cosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody - I'm ashamed to say that - and I did it for maybe a week, hoping some [uses air quotes with fingers] 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? So that I could kill him."
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