(08-29-2018, 06:54 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(08-29-2018, 05:48 PM)Jagsfan4life9/28/82 Wrote: The dog whistle take is stupid. His opponent is black and he is white. What more does he need to do to attract white racists. Really, he had nothing to gain by using that word. The reality is this is just another exemplification of how some on the right are hilariously tone deaf and continue to present horrible optics.

Trump was called a racist for saying Omarosa was a "dog".

Everything is considered racist to those seeking it out. This is a common phrase--not to monkey something up. I simply don't care if someone chooses to get offended because they want to claim a word / phrase and assign motive when, had they not been black, they would not have otherwise had a reason to believe it was racist.

If we ignore the concept of John Q. Public being overly offended entirely   -  It's still an ill-advised choice of words by someone who ought to know better.  Folks absolutely get offended too easily, but there's too much history with this particular inference to just ignore it IMO. 

I mean is that too much political correctness to ask of a politician of any ilk?  "Please don't associate an African American with a monkey while running for public office?"  Seems pretty reasonable to me.

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