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If it's in your regular enough vocabulary to "come out accidentally" you are a racist.
You also can't 'unsay' a racial slur as much as my ex can't 'unfuck' someone.
What's also neat is that it also shows one's intelligence. If you give him a pass "oh he said he was sorry" you're a racist AND dumb.
(...) you're a racist AND dumb.
To a large extent you're racist because you're dumb.
For the last few months they've traded their dog whistles for blow horns. More and more hatred is being normalized.
"I didn't say anything of the sort (unless the audience liked it)"
Even if this was just an "innocent" slip up it's not like what he said wouldn't have been racist otherwise. The dude is defending the false claims about Haitian immigrants. It's still racist.
Can a white guy slip up and use the n word? Not sure that's a slip up.
It never is. People don't "slip up" that way unless they use it all the time when in private.
Exactly.
My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.
The staff at the National Review have always been neo-confederate trash and I have no trouble believing Lowry simply uses this word on such a routine basis that it slipped out during an interview with another arch-conservative media figure.
These folks are racists and it shouldn't be seen as surprising when they show all the symptoms of a bigoted mind.
“Guys the party switch is a myth we’re the party that abolished slavery”
Even during the Reconstruction Era, Indiana was both staunchly Republican and full of the KKK. And there was no shortage of racism irrespective of party in Congress during the height of the Civil War. The myth is that the Radical Republicans of the 1860s and 70s represented the party population as a whole, rather than a vocal minority within an ascendant movement that managed to squeeze in a few good reforms before Hayes sold it all down the river.
Republicans barely abolished slavery even with half the country in Time-Out. And they were crucified for it in elections to come.
Really sounds like it starts with an N and not an M so I don’t buy the mispronunciation story.
Also there is the fact that neither immigrants nor migrants ends in ‘gger’
He prolly had a bet with a friend that he would slip in an N word.
I saw the dumb defender say he was conflating immigrant and migrant but I replayed that part a dozen times. It really, really sounds like an 'N' as the first letter. It definitely was not him beginning to pronounce 'immgr'. You can plainly hear it.
But even if we gave him the benefit of the doubt, the fact that Megyn Kelly completely ignored it and the fact that he didn't apologize immediately and explain it says volumes about both of them. Why didn't Kelly even say anything? Maybe she's so used to hearing it in her circles, maybe even saying it, that it didn't even register as something unusual to her and she didn't notice it.
It seems seems dubious to me too. But the 'gr' in migrants would sound roughly the same as 'gger.' The problem is... well. He seems to start it with an 'n' and then also mis-inflects the 'i'?
It would be like trying to say 'clickable' and instead saying 'slacker.'
Mad sus.
Okay I didn't watch the video until looking at your link and saw the whole "he started saying migrant wrong" bullshit and was like, "okay maybe that is what happened.". No, this dude straight throws a hard r n word out casually, unmistakable as anything else.
That was so fucking purposeful. Wow.
Lmao, whose down voting you? It's a direct link to the video!
People downvote the weirdest shit.
In other words, an editor of a magazine that explicitly advocated for white supremacy in the 50's and 60's let the mask they've since put on slip for a second
It is never an accident.
I meant an accident in the sense of "I said something racist out loud when I meant to only say it in my head." But I don't think that was the case here.
They hide behind “its only racism when im actively in the process of saying the n word out loud” but now i guess even that get’s an asterisk
I wondered if this might turn out to be somebody reading something into something, but Nope, he said it clear as a bell. You don't accidentally say that unless you're thinking it. This is obviously a word this guy uses frequently, and he even seems proud of himself for it.
I think it was an accident. And this fuck uses the word too much.
Well it's some very interesting timing for such an accident.
I changed my mind after putting in earphones and listening to it more clearly
Haitian mig-r? Lol. Clearly the man is too used to saying the N word off public broadcast.
That, uh, was definitely a hard ‘r’ there. Jesus Christ.
I don't sympathize with this dudes rhetoric at all, just adding that from his mouth movements he does seem to be making an "m" sound not an "n" sound with his mouth.
He's probably still really racist, but I've got racist family and if they ever decide to drop a "hard r" you can see it in their face. I do think it was a case of trying to say "immigrants", flubbing it, then just saying "migrants" because he realizes what it sounds like. Even the forced laughter afterwards has a sort of "oh shit that didn't sound good" vibe to it.
Again, not defending this guy. But we have to remember, all sides of politics can spin stuff to fit their agenda, so we have to be discreet in our decisions and judgements, that's how we stand apart from all the people just sucking down the news as gospel truth.
"... calling in about Haitian [Full-ass-hard-R-N-words] I mean migrants." No you don't.