We are all Slave now.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Right. An academic exercise. The point of the post isn't to accuse you of racism or even to point out what you're doing here. It's to let you know that this is the thought process that almost every white person I come into contact with whenever there is a discussion on race goes through. "But he could have meant..." "I'm sure she didn't mean..." "It could be read like this..." "If you stand on your head and read it with one eye closed..." etfuckingcetera.

TM

It's kinda the same thing that the NYT reporters were doing the other day when they wouldn't say that Trump was lying because who knew whether he was intentionally telling falsehoods or recklessly couldn't be bothered to care about the facts? Or, for that matter, what reporters did yesterday when the Missouri governor resigned over "sexual misconduct" -- "rape" has only four letters and is easy to spell. "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle," George Orwell.