(07-29-2019 10:37 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 10:23 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 10:07 PM)Frizzy Owl Wrote:  What do you mean by "point of reckoning?"

By the way, he's already apologized for the *****-grabbing speech. I don't think his apology carries much weight or makes much difference. Do you?

He had no choice but to apologize given the circumstances of the presidential election. I don't know if the apology carries weight. The only way to know is to have insight into whether he actually tried to learn from this situation and change his behavior. I don't have any way to say if that happened or not.

The Oklahoma SAE racist apologized as well after his video came out. Did that apology "carry much weight"?

If you agree that a Trump apology doesn't mean much than what would be the point of a Trump supporter saying he should apologize.

I wouldn't have demanded an apology were anybody to ask me. The PR team-produced "apologies" that we see from politicians don't do much for me.

*edit* I see your point was in response to my asking where the line was drawn. I stand corrected.

Quote: You should note that people here are not defending his remarks or vulgar language, but condemning those who deliberately misrepresent what he says to further their agenda.

Tanq is sort of defending those remarks, is he not?

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The way I see it, one false accusation of racism based on twisting a man's words is 1000x more evil than those words themselves no matter how vulgar or offensive. I don't care how prim and proper a Democrat's speech, if it's malicious slander it offends me more than a string of explicatives would.

I would honestly like the left to be more judicious in general when throwing around accusations of racism. OTOH, as we have seen what should be considered racist is quite subjective.