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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by jki275 on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:30PM (#20245148)
I’m not going to bother with most of that because it’s just talking points, but I will point out that the birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton’s team when she ran against Obama. Also, calling him racist and sexist is comical, and nobody said that about him when he was buying democrat politicians for decades in NYC - that story got made up when he announced he was going to run for president as a Republican.
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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by mikeash on Friday June 21, 2019 @02:38PM (#20245207)
Right, nobody said that before 2015, sure. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-racist-meme/

His full page ads calling for the execution of the exonerated Central Park Five ran thirty years ago!

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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by jki275 on Saturday June 22, 2019 @10:44AM (#20249851)
I don’t think the Central Park 5 were exonerated 35 years ago. I’m glad they have been exonerated now, and certainly they shouldn’t have been convicted then - but there was nothing racist in Trump’s ad calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty. Many people believe in it (full disclosure- I’m not one of them), and at least of those I know none of them believe in it for racist reasons.
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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by mikeash on Saturday June 22, 2019 @05:20PM (#20251780)
That’s true, they were exonerated in 2002. Trump then withdrew his advocacy for their execution in... well, I can’t answer that without crystal ball.
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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by jki275 on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:58PM (#20258305)
Well clearly they wouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty anymore, I don’t think anyone believes that. That’s a bit of an absurd comment to make.
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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by mikeash on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:05PM (#20258969)
Why is that clear? Trump still says they’re guilty, and still says people who commit these crimes should be executed.
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Re:Republican Rep. William Hurd disinvited from Black Hat co... by jki275 on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:02AM (#20262607)
He does? Can you cite that? As I said, many people believe that people who commit murder ought to be executed, that's not a racist belief.
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