CNN is all over the plagiarism issue like a fly on shit right now.
Even better, apparently she gave a speech in the last couple of days stating that she wrote almost all of it herself. I’m sure someone else will get fired for it though.
If you’d like to speak about the value of hard work, you probably shouldn’t plagiarize your comments.
If you do plagiarize comments about the value of hard work, you probably shouldn’t plagiarize comments seen by millions of people.
If you do plagiarize comments about the value of hard work that were seen by millions, you probably shouldn’t have it broadcast to millions of people.
If you do broadcast to millions of people plagiarized comments about the value of hard work previously seen by millions of people, there is a chance that the people who saw the first set of comments won’t be the same people who see your comments, or that those who did see both won’t make the connection between them.
Melania Trump’s luck didn’t hold out.
My office building has “White Stairs” and “Black Stairs”. Also “Red Stairs”, “Yellow Stairs” and “Green Stairs”.
Sometimes a color is just a color (although when the GOP are concerned it’s usually a good idea to doublecheck).
“I have the worst fucking attorneys.”
I’m expecting the next passage to read something like "Only a few Mexican laborers reared within the culture of the southwestern United States, like Speedy Gonzales, were ever capable of producing a suitable work ethic. Even then, the stain of Mexican culture would normally win out as could be seen with Mr. Gonzales’ cousin Rodriguez aka “Slowpoke”.
Yes, bit Pinky is definitely an American mouse.
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The predictable reaction:
Countdown until people start pointing out Democrats similar stunts? Countdown until Fox covers the story with a (D) next to her name? Don’t care, but please don’t let this be a countdown to armageddon.
You’ll have to count backwards; Starving Artist already jumped in with ‘Obama did it too’ and ‘liberals are therefore hypocrites and liars’.
Um, really?
I don’t either. I just don’t assume everything that could possibly be racist is racist.
Do you think “white elephant parties” are racist? Do you think your printer is racist when it says “black toner is low?”
Not always. Sometimes innocent things are innocent things. You actually think someone did this on purpose, with the deliberate intent of it being racist? Coe on.
Which means YOU can’t know either.
All we can do is look at the evidence we have and make a good judgement.
It’s silly stuff like this that the Republicans use to say that the left is a bunch of ninnies who cry “racism!” at everything, no matter how absurd. And they have a point.
You can laugh a their stupid mistake. But no, nobody sat down and said “Let’s have a “White Elevator” sign so we can celebrate the glorious days of segregation at our convention because I don’t like white people” and printed a sign. That’s ridiculous.
Someone needs to tell that guy to chill out. It’s day one and he’s already in full-out meltdown mode. He’s old and feeble; there’s no way he’ll last three more days of this glorious trainwreck.
I agree. But that doesn’t excuse them. What happened is someone had the idea for “white elevator”, and no one had the idea that this was a bad idea because it seems to make light of segregation, because they were either insufficiently aware of the history of segregation or they just didn’t care.
Not the worst sin in the world, but an indictment of their lack of knowledge about racism, or lack of interest in avoiding racism.
Did it occur to you that being “insufficiently aware of the history of segregation” could be a GOOD thing? That someone who didn’t grow up around racism and isn’t a racist might not know all the details about racism, and might not immediately think about racism when seeing something as simple as a color coded sign?
I grew up hearing racist jokes that nobody dare say today. I’m certainly not going to tell them to my kids just to make sure they know about them and don’t accidentally make a similar joke. Part of defeating racism is inevitably going to be ignorance about the details of racism, and that’s a GOOD thing.
I see many instances of people making inadvertant racist statements simply because they are NOT racists and didn’t know something was racist, or didn’t think about a racist angle to an innocent statement.
P.S. here’s a better angle then: Allen West, Republican, is spewing this dumb rumor.
I was going to ask if you are really that stupid, lance, but I see that you are.
Let’s break it down even further for you: A political party wanting to run the country had fucking well better be aware of racism and its history in this country. Anything less just proves their total ethical bankruptcy.
We’ve had this conversation before. This is a very bad thing and inexcusable in modern America. The history of racism and oppression must be learned and understood in order to be avoided in the future, as well as in order to fully understand present day interactions and events.
Especially for anyone involved in politics and governance. Absolutely inexcusable.
Jokes are different than the history of segregation. It’s absolutely a terrible thing to be ignorant of it when we’re just a couple of generations removed (or even closer for other forms of oppression and discrimination), and when many living people suffered through it (and some still are).
Maybe in 500 years it will be different (hopefully). But today, such ignorance of history is a terrible thing that should be challenged and criticized.
This doesn’t excuse them from criticism. At best they’re ignorant, and a sharp rhetorical lesson is appropriate.
Good for you, neither do I
No, but “White Elevator” at a GOP convention where their nominee has said Mexican judges can’t be impartial and Mexicans are rapists IS racist
Yes. You think the GOP is so smart as to not use a bullhorn sometimes when they should be using a dog whistle? LOL, you give them too much credit! Yes, somebody there likely looked at “White Elevator” and had a guffaw about it, showed it to their buddies, and thought “Why don’t I hang this up, my white friends and I will get a kick out of it!”
And the evidence is that its likely to be racist when your party blames blacks for crime, dehumanizes them by calling them thugs, thinks any cop that shoots one is ok, calls for deportation and an impossible wall, thinks Mexico is filled with biased judges and rapists, thinks Muslims should be barred from coming into the country, etc. It was a racist sign. And still you didn’t answer my question.
What would you accept as racist without someone explicitly saying “Oh that sign? Yeah, we did it cause we’re racists”
You give them too much credit. Your party IS that stupid
What amuses me is that, after days of him moaning about all how awful it is to be an ‘apologist’ for something (such as Islam), he seems to have appointed himself the board’s Chief Trump Apologist.