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I knew this nonsense sounded familiar.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/08/3710661/carson-murdoch-obama/
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Rupert Murdoch, the arbiter of American Blackness (he just compares them to his heart).
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You are so fixated on examining his statements on a purely semantic level, ignoring all pragmatic or extralinguistic political considerations. Thatās just not a useful way deal with things people say. It does matter why people say things and how those things relate to the speaker, the audience and their environment. What Carson said may be true, but so fucking what? It certainly doesnāt mean that the statement doesnāt deserve more scrutiny and possibly condemnation. This simplistic focus on factual truth is just not very helpful unless you are trying to impersonate a cartoon robot.
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You took issue with my initial statement (which sort of went against the tone of the original article), not me with your. You claimed I was implying there is only one genuine African American experience and that I was therefore āpretty racistā for not understanding that many black Americans were not born in disenfranchised urban settings. So I replied in defense.
And then you got indignant over how dare I disagree with you and what was my point in posting anything anyway.
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They guy who theorized that the pyramids were really for grain storage now theorizes that Republican voters really want someone āblackerā than Obama.
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You didnāt really examine my statements in context did you? I repeatedly acknowledged the points you are making.
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I donāt really want to play your game, but:
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The most interesting part for me isā¦ are you or are you not aware of the beam in your own eye?
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Were you by chance involved with that Mars probe that was lost due to units problems? 
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You are right, I was wrong on this one. The attitude wasnāt actually expressed by anyone in the thread. I was more reacting to the tone of the original article. Mea culpa.
The sentence with the adversarial goals was however referring to Carson being on the other team and pursuing them - I knew it would come out wrong.
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At least on the evangelical side, though, they do seem to like sordid pre-conversion bio filler, which I assume is the angle that Carson is working in this case.
If it werenāt for that, heād be well advised to tread much more carefully(eg. Obamaās āTerrorist Fist Bumpā incident); but pretending that you lived in really lurid sin before televangelist jesus saved you is pretty stock.
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True, itās quite a tangled web he weaves.
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Was there ever an official verdict on that story, or did we just move on?
Of course Carson is relevant in the race. He is the designated comic relief.
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While itās true that Obamaās childhood experiences were not those of a typical black child in America, being raised partly in Honolulu, partly in Indonesia, with various family members from all over the globe isnāt really āraised white.ā When he was in the US he was seen as a black male in the US, regardless of his peculiar family background (that canāt fairly be described as āraised whiteā).
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