I must have missed the part of the memo where he used slurs. I've noticed this kind of statement often: "How can you say X about group A - don't you know group

I must have missed the part of the memo where he used slurs. I've noticed this kind of statement often: "How can you say X about group A - don't you know group A suffers from Y??", as a way to try and associate X with (the clearly bad) Y.