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cali

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20. Just as an aside, but Galliano's get up in light of his undeniable anti-semitism
Mon Feb 25, 2013, 03:40 PM
Feb 2013

is also pretty grotesque.

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Galliano was convicted in France of making racist slurs after a 2011 rant caught on video in which he hurled insults at a group of Italian women in a Paris bar, saying, “I love Hitler... People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers would all be [expletive] gassed.” This incident happened just before Paris Fashion Week for Autumn/Winter 2011-12.

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This. MUST. end. - GREEN Party where the hell ARE you, when you can actually do something??? patrice Feb 2013 #1
A few elections ago, both the Republicans and Democrats nominated Hikind. ButterflyBlood Feb 2013 #4
No doubt about it; what calls itself "the Left" generates its very own brand of extremists, patrice Feb 2013 #13
You will have to connect the dots form me. bvar22 Feb 2013 #23
I was referring to ButterflyBlood's anecdote; perhaps they aren't "Lefties". Labels are used patrice Feb 2013 #25
I still don't see the dots connecting. bvar22 Feb 2013 #29
Do you know what frequency distributions are in basic descriptive statistics? Are you saying there patrice Feb 2013 #31
In other words, bvar22 Feb 2013 #33
Pot, kettle. Got that too. If you refuse to respect others, you don't deserve respect. Someone patrice Feb 2013 #34
You surrebdered your right to Moral High Ground, bvar22 Feb 2013 #36
This guy is not a "lefty", nor are his constituents ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2013 #30
Thanks for the clarification. I should have asked instead of assuming the district's problem was patrice Feb 2013 #32
HE SUPPORTED MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT. NOT KIDDING. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #27
UPDATE-->SeattlePI: "NY assemblyman stands by blackface, Afro costume" Poll_Blind Feb 2013 #2
I wonder if he'd have the same reaction to a Black man dressed as a Hasidim. Ikonoklast Feb 2013 #7
Funny you should bring that up! You're never going to believe this but TWO WEEKS ago... Poll_Blind Feb 2013 #8
it's okay when i do it, but not okay if others do it noiretextatique Feb 2013 #9
Yeah, I saw that. Ikonoklast Feb 2013 #15
Just as an aside, but Galliano's get up in light of his undeniable anti-semitism cali Feb 2013 #20
I assumed that was already well-known, hence the juxtaposition of Foxman defending him. nt Poll_Blind Feb 2013 #21
Hasidim is the plural DavidDvorkin Feb 2013 #24
Dov Hikund represents my in-laws Hard Assets Feb 2013 #3
Are your in-laws Hasids? ButterflyBlood Feb 2013 #5
No. They are religious Jews, but they are not Hasidic Hard Assets Feb 2013 #14
I knew who this was before I clicked. nt msanthrope Feb 2013 #6
I should have KamaAina Feb 2013 #35
Hypocritical jerk. nt. OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #10
Ugh and double ugh. What a racist creep. Of course, he's an all around creep cali Feb 2013 #11
That is offensive but it is not "blackface" RB TexLa Feb 2013 #12
Really. Show us how you do it, then. Ikonoklast Feb 2013 #16
Of course it is. cali Feb 2013 #17
Dressing up as Queen Esther for Purim wasn't good enough for him? Hekate Feb 2013 #18
Ugh sakabatou Feb 2013 #19
Anti-black racism isn't exactly unheard of amongst his constituents. nt geek tragedy Feb 2013 #22
The guy really needs to buy a clue. LiberalAndProud Feb 2013 #26
He wishes! nt kelliekat44 Feb 2013 #28
In that second picture, Heywood J Feb 2013 #37
I wished I could vote that jerk out of office. Pterodactyl Feb 2013 #38
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