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(06-01-2020, 02:27 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I don't give a rat's ass if Obama said THUG.  That doesn't mean I have to look at Trump say THUG and think....well there is no way this guy who didn't denounce the KKK's support of him and just quoted George Wallace could be racist because he didn't explicitly say the ol N-bomb.  Come on, I don't think I need a weatherman to know which way this wind blows.

And I'm not offended by Trump, I'm just confident that he's a racist and/or he plays up that angle because it wins him votes.  So what?  This isn't a court of law and I'm not accusing him of anything illegal.

I'm not offended and I think Trump can and should say what he feels he has to say.  I"m just not giving him as much goodwill and leeway as some others given his actions for the past 30 years or so.  I'm a white schlub who is sitting on his dirt road while the country burns.  I'm not offended by any of this, I have no right to be offended by it and I'm not going to pull some sort of incel "white knigting" for the people Trump does offend.

I'm just calling a d-bag a d-bag.  So what?

I'm assuming there's some Obama whataboutism. I don't recall taking issue with the word itself, just as you noted, the unequal application of it. Like I said, it's interesting that actual Neo Nazi's were called "good people" and the man who choked George Floyd wasn't called out, but Trump called out the protestors and called for them to be shot (doing so by quoting an anti civil rights figure who violently attacked young black men who protested in the 60's). Add to that fact, he told governors to listen to the armed white protestors who ignored social distancing and hung effigies of Democratic politicians.