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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You absolutely have to hold off calling even a clear racist a racist because white people have set it up such that calling someone a racist is more offensive than actual racism. That's the point we are discussing and the point of the book.
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I wonder if Cohen and Lanny Davis would have been better off leaving the racism out of his testimony, as it gives half of the country an easy exit point to dismiss what Cohen is saying and, unfortunately, isn't likely to be relevant to his fitness to serve.
Which has me sort of recalling a congressman introducing articles of impeachment that started with "he's a racist." Like, true and all, but that is not going anywhere.