# Should President Obama pardon Chelsea Manning?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 14, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-obama-pardon-chelsea-manning/772003 "2016-11-14T21:38:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-president-obama-pardon-chelsea-manning/772003/30 "2016-11-16T13:48:35Z")

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> [@Miller](#):
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> Jonathan Pollard was convicted in 1987 for selling state secrets to Israel. Pollard was, himself, a Jew. Given that he was, also, a traitor, would you object to someone referring to Pollard as a kike? If you would object, why does common decency still apply when it comes to using racial slurs to describe a traitor?

We were talking about pronouns. Calling a male “he” is not analogous to calling a Jew “kike”.

Regards,  
Shodan

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