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He condemned them by name, but it took 48 hours to do so.
by judah 9y ago
He condemned them by name, but it took 48 hours to do so.
- Angostura 9y agoAnd he then pretty much rolled back 24 hours later by suggesting some kind of equivalence between the white supremcists and those who opposed them.
- empressplay 9y agoHe could have been more eloquent, but the poison that kills me a little more slowly than the other poison is still poison.
- sdenton4 9y agoAnd then went right back to false equivalence and whataboutism less than 24 hours later. The third statement reinforced the insincerity of the second.
- ForRealsies 9y agoOn Mass Hysteria Bubbles http://blog.dilbert.com/post/164297628606/how-to-know-youre-in-a-mass-hysteria-bubble http://blog.dilbert.com/post/164297628606/how-to-know-youre-...
- pmoriarty 9y agoNot only that, he then went on to complain[1] about the removal of "beautiful" Confederate statues, effectively siding with the Neo-Nazis, who were in Charlottesville specifically to protest the removal of a Confederade statue. This is par for the course for Trump, who (only when under extreme political pressure from his own party) will belatedly condemn right-wing extremists with one corner of his mouth, but give them a verbal wink with the other. [1] - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40965029 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40965029
- vim_wannabe 9y agoAh, yes, complaining about the removal of statues is siding with neo-nazis now.
- judah 9y agoArguing against removal of Confederate statues is not siding with neo-nazis. (Corollary: arguing for the removal doesn't make you a violent Antifa Communist.) Condoleeza Rice, an African American woman with political clout and experience, has argued we should keep the statues. Others have made a strong case for removing statues of people who committed treason. But whatever your view, this should be done legally and peacefully. No mobs tearing down statues, no pitchfork-wielding defense of statues. We live in a democracy. Exercise it.
- foota 9y agoNit: it does quite literally mean you are on the same side as the neo-nazis, at least in that case.
- judah 9y agoFalse equivalence was bad, yes. Such is politics. President Trump equates the alt-right racists and the Antifa violent Communists for political purposes. President Obama equated Israelis and Palestinian terrorists for political purposes[0]. People find it hard to condemn violence when their side is doing it; they point out wrongs in the other side to soften or excuse their side's violence. [0]: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/227669/re-cairo-speech-anne-bayefsky http://www.nationalreview.com/article/227669/re-cairo-speech...
- mattnewton 9y agoWhile reading a TelePrompter, some people in his administration got him to stay on the script, but when he went off the script in the next press conference it got even uglier.