WV black lawmaker gets email with KKK graphic and anti-abortion message...also sues. Is this right?

[MrDibble]

@Max_S

I think to change my mind, I would need evidence that the individual or organization behind the email have a history of more overt threats of racially motivated violence, or a history of perpetrating / sympathizing with racially motivated violence.

White people, as a group, have a history of actual racially-motivated violence against Black people, never mind threats, veiled or otherwise.

@Max_S

No, in the specific instance where the person is compared to Nazis, there isn’t.

It’s got fuck all to do with the textual comparison, and everything to do with the imagery used.

@Max_S

Burning a cross may be a threat, but it doesn’t follow that a images of a burning cross is a threat.

You’re wrong.

@Max_S

A symbol is not inherently threatening;

No, they are made so by custom and context. So? This usage is not devoid of either.

Are you looking to delve into the “cartoons of picaninnies are not inherently racist” pit other posters have dug in the past?