# Now Hillary plays the KKK card
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 26, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983 "2016-08-26T02:07:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/101 "2016-08-27T01:18:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> Has there been ANY defense of Trump from party officials in the past day? (Not just pathetic Trump mouthpieces) I have heard… crickets.
Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell would have commented, but they were washing their hair while Hillary’s speech was on so they [don’t really know what she said](https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/769141967338995712).
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/102 "2016-08-27T02:07:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Well, we couldn’t just run him out of _town_, we’d have to run him out of the whole damn _country_!
That rumbling you hear is 122 million Mexicans saying _Oh, no you don’t!_
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/103 "2016-08-27T02:50:18Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> > [@elucidator](#):
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> > Well, we couldn’t just run him out of _town_, we’d have to run him out of the whole damn _country_!
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> That rumbling you hear is 122 million Mexicans saying _Oh, no you don’t!_
There is always Russia or Crimea.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/104 "2016-08-27T02:56:31Z")
> [@tomndebb](#):
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> There is always Russia or Crimea.
According to Trump, they’re the same country.
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### Author:  [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/105 "2016-08-27T06:05:08Z")
> [@Ravenman](#):
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> Have you read the Washington Post in the last six months? Even I think they are starting to go a little overboard on Trump. They are starting to look like the New York Post in terms of relentless criticism of a political opponent.
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> My reservations of the Post’s relentless criticism of Trump are tempered by my view that Trump deserves every word of what they have written. But for sure, there’s no pretense of fairness or pulling punches.
Recently I succumbed to a discount & purchased a Kindle Fire HD. The Kindle Paperwhite is better for straight reading & my laptop is better for surfing & replying but the Fire is quite an attractive media tool.
It came with the _Washington Post_ app. Yes, there’s some uncomplimentary Trump coverage. But they published Jerry Falwell Jr’s [Trump is the Churchillian Leader We Need.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jerry-falwell-jr-trump-is-the-churchillian-leader-we-need/2016/08/19/b1ff79e0-64b1-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html?utm_term=.6aa6ddc2a7ae)
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> I chose to personally support Donald Trump for president early on and referred to him as America’s blue-collar billionaire at the Republican National Convention because of his love for ordinary Americans and his kindness, generosity and bold leadership qualities. My family has grown to love all of the Trumps because they are wonderful people willing to sacrifice much for their country. The public perception of Trump that has been created by the media is simply false.
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> We are at a crossroads where our first priority must be saving our nation. We need a leader with qualities that resemble those of Winston Churchill, and I believe that leader is Donald Trump. As Churchill did, Trump possesses the resolve to put his country first and to never give up in a world that is increasingly hostile to our values.
So, the _Post_ does present “the other side.” Of course Falwell Jr is utterly wrong. (And, although Churchill was the right man for the job at one stirring period, his long career was less than perfect…)
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/106 "2016-08-27T06:20:54Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#):
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> Every candidate gets people voting for them whom they might not approve.
MIGHT not approve? How about DO not approve?
Seriously, give me the slightest scrap of evidence that suggest the Donald doesn’t approve of these human scum and their rhetoric. I dare you.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/107 "2016-08-27T07:25:30Z")
> [@Measure\_for\_Measure](#):
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> Oh, and you can bet that WAPO will later allude to its aggressive Trump coverage and call it courage. It is not. It is a continuance of self interest.
JFK, and no doubt many before, said that you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Since the WaPo has no access to Trump it has nothing to lose by letting him have it. Not a good move, Don the Con.
And a daily WaPo summary comes to the email address I use for Amazon, so it isn’t just the Kindle. I’ve been enjoying it.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/108 "2016-08-27T07:26:30Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> MIGHT not approve? How about DO not approve?
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> Seriously, give me the slightest scrap of evidence that suggest the Donald doesn’t approve of these human scum and their rhetoric. I dare you.
I don’t think this thread is going the way Mr. Redneck expected it to.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/109 "2016-08-27T07:44:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Tarring and feathering then run out of town on a rail is more traditional.
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Well, we couldn’t just run him out of _town_, we’d have to run him out of the whole damn _country_!
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> Hmmm. Let me think on that a moment…
Yeah, no. Running him out of the country implies running him _into_ a different country.
What have ANY of them done to us to deserve that?
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/110 "2016-08-27T07:58:55Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> What have ANY of them done to us to deserve that?
Russia, for invading Crimea, and interfering in the US election. Russia deserves him.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/111 "2016-08-27T09:48:18Z")
“…a world increasingly hostile to our values.”
Could it be because your values have become racist, misogynist, xenophobic, islamaphobic ?
Surely all the Gods ever created, are hostile to those values!
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### Author:  [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/112 "2016-08-27T09:53:00Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> “…a world increasingly hostile to our values.”
yeah it’s paranoid hyberbole. During the cold war a far larger number of people were “hostile to our values” and we survived without the extreme security theatre measures and xenophobia of today.
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### Author:  [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/113 "2016-08-27T10:45:34Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#):
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> So, the _Post_ does present “the other side.”
The coverage I’m talking about is in the news section. Of course the opinion section has different contributors. I don’t think the news section has gone an inch out of its way to present favorable coverage of Trump in the name of being “balanced.”
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/114 "2016-08-27T11:04:13Z")
> [@Merneith](#):
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> Here’s a direct link to the new ad about Donald Trump and how much the KKK approve of him
Just because a racist agrees with you doesn’t make you a racist.
The mud being slung by both sides is most disappointing, but par for the course.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/115 "2016-08-27T11:20:42Z")
Pandering to, and accepting the support of racists makes one an enabling douchebag.
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### Author:  [@dreamregent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamregent)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/116 "2016-08-27T11:22:33Z")
> [@elbows](#):
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> “…a world increasingly hostile to our values.”
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> Could it be because your values have become racist, misogynist, xenophobic, islamaphobic ?
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> Surely all the Gods ever created, are hostile to those values!
Nope. The KKK and many other racist organizations claim to be “Christian” organizations. Hence, the god(s) they believe in do approve of those values.
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Just because a racist agrees with you doesn’t make you a racist.
When a product of ideation meets the definition of racism, it’s a material consequence that anyone expressing that view makes himself a racist.
> [@Quartz](#):
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> The mud being slung by both sides is most disappointing, but par for the course.
It’s not mud slinging when someone asserts claims which are both coherent and sound.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/117 "2016-08-27T11:38:07Z")
The important thing to remember is that both sides do it. We mustn’t forget that, even if it were possible to forget that.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/118 "2016-08-27T12:15:11Z")
> [@Quartz](#):
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> Just because a racist agrees with you doesn’t make you a racist.
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> The mud being slung by both sides is most disappointing, but par for the course.
There are a lot more accusations of racist assertions and actions against Trump that association.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/119 "2016-08-27T12:58:35Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#):
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> There are a lot more accusations of racist assertions and actions against Trump that association.
“than association”, not “that association”.
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-hillary-plays-the-kkk-card/763983/120 "2016-08-27T13:26:00Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> [David Duke: Donald Trump Speaks Like An Alt-Right Leader | Right Wing Watch](http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-duke-donald-trump-speaks-alt-right-leader)
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> “Yesterday, Louisiana-based white nationalist and U.S. Senate candidate David Duke reacted to the news of Hillary Clinton’s upcoming speech about Donald Trump’s ties to the alt-right, a racist movement championed by Duke, _ **by noting that Trump speaks just like alt-right leaders** _.”
Trump: blahblah wall… blahblah Mexican judge… blahblah ban Muslims… blahblah…
Duke: we really like this guy! 😃 **\<3\<3\<3**
Clinton: Trump is a racist!
Trump: am not! You are!
Duke: yes you is, yes you is! Who is a pwetty widdle racist! Twumpie is! Twuuuumpie is! We really like this guy! 😃 **\<3\<3\<3**
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