(07-18-2019, 11:50 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(07-18-2019, 11:38 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: But you are defending a congresswomans right to downplay 9/11!!!!!

Also, you continue to not use the rest of the quote from POTUS. You are literally echoing the MSM.

It's her right to downplay 9/11 just as it's Trump's right to say that the white males marching with tiki torches and chanting anti-Semitic slogans were very fine people. You can be stupid and still be Constitutionally protected. You cannot incite violence and remain within the coverage of the First Amendment. The "workplace harassment" garbage is just that, garbage. But when a President tells four women belonging to various minorities (three of whom were born here and the fourth was naturalized) to go back where they came from, it's a threat. "Love it or leave it" from the Drifter is just a parrot repeating his favorite buzzwords, but when the President says it and means it, it's a threat. 

The sheer number of people in this thread dismissing, downplaying, even pushing the boundaries of defending racism, saying that minorities bring it on themselves, placing false equivalency between white men being arrested while not acknowledging that it happens much more frequently with black men, even saying that abortion is the reason the black community is so badly left behind, it all blows my mind that I'm reading this from some of you. I thought better of you, but I guess I'm starting to really see who here thinks for themselves and who here just repeats what Donald Trump or AOC tells them to say. This board is starting to feel a little too much like Twitter.

Only in the political forum. It's toxic over here. I'll give you that one. But what did you expect? That's literally the political aspect of our Country. It's never been pretty. And it'll take a colossal effort (Which I have no faith in neither the Republicans nor Democrats achieving based on their outstanding levels of effort put in over the years) to bring it all back into the middle at a philosophical level and less of a clown and circus act pretending it's a high school prom king and queen vote every four years. 

I agree with some of your views though. But I won't let someone's views on race, religion and politics cloud my entire opinion on them. You have to learn how to take in the bad with the good. I think you're more than capable of that. It's good to have people like you in this forum. It adds healthy perspective. Embrace everyone's differences. Don't shy away from it. Not until they at least start threatening you with biker chains and ice cream cones or tiki torches and eviction notices. 

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