Not trick photography, just some white magic
“I Like Beer”. -he said
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It could have been a sarcastic costume? But I’m from Wyoming. Only 400,000 people in the state. Everybody is a friend here…literally! But mostly every body votes republican! Because that is the tradition. And most people don’t like to think. I’ve read too much and ruined my mind. The devil tells me all people are equal and nothing empirically has contradicted my observation.
Hail satan … love is all
chad
“I was wearing it ironically” only works under extremely specific circumstances.
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Really, I can’t stop laughing! Stop it… Slim Pickens is killing me! Over and over again. I think it is a positive PTSD!
Not on them, but in my opinion it’s part of why, even before President Trump, the Republican Party was and is shrinking. So still worth it.
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The second one has to be a POE.
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I heard someone say that the best thing that can be said about that photo was that, due to the limits on 1980’s photo manipulation technology, one of the following statements is almost certainly true:
“at least he wasn’t the guy dressed up as a blackface minstrel”
or
“at least he wasn’t the guy dressed up as a klansman”
Maybe he’s leaving it unanswered because he’s hoping that his few remaining supporters are choosing to believe whichever of those two scenarios they’re less offended by.
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Within the context of the 1980s in Virginia, I think these pictures are tasteless, but not the moral transgression that they are today. And if things were going by my standards, he should apologize, say that what was merely tasteless back then is unacceptable today, and say how happy he is that the world has changed for the better, and not resign, which is exactly what he has done so far. I don’t need to bend myself into a pretzel. I bet he went to a segregated school and lived a segregated life too. That’s just how life was in Virginia at that time. I bet even liberal whites in Virginia still send their children to nearly segregated schools.
One interesting problem is that what’s morally acceptable is changing fast these days. Twenty years ago, many leading Democrats who are still leading today agreed that marriage was between a man and a woman, there are two genders, and illegal workers are a threat to American workers. Now all of those positions are considered not just wrong, but morally wrong and are the beliefs of religious nuts etc.
My perception is that the Democrats are going to solve this by moving to younger and less white leaders, and will be able to use such standards more effectively against the older and more white Republican leaders. No one is ever going to be able to criticize AOC for anything connected to the KKK.
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Are you joking? He’s literally simultaneously under fire from Republicans for explaining the circumstances behind rare third trimester abortions in defense of a recently failed Assembly bill designed to improve women’s access to third trimester abortions.
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I believe he’s currently positioning himself as pro-choice because that’s what Democrats do, but I also believe if he really felt strongly about abortion rights he wouldn’t have twice supported a Republican President who vowed to appoint SCOTUS Judges to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Let’s not take it too far, after all.
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Wrong once again:
He and [older brother] Thomas attended desegregated public schools.[5][9] Northam graduated from Onancock High School, where his class was predominately African American.[10]
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In high school, Northam was voted “Most Likely to Succeed”[10] and graduated as salutatorian.[13] He was a member of his school’s basketball and baseball teams.
Now that your excuse-making contortion act of a bet didn’t pay off, time for you to bend yourself into more of a pretzel to explain how someone with that real-life background (who also went to VMI, desegregated in 1968) thought dressing up this way five years later was an acceptable idea.
I’ll agree with that. No more than eight years ago, for example, ultra-nationalists calling for or making a case for discriminatory and/or segregated ethnostates would have rightly been regarded as loony fringe elements, as despicable as Nazis. However, now that right-wing populism has oozed back from under history’s paving stones they’ve become emboldened (most ironically and shamefully, they now also include a small subset of foolish and short-sighted Jews and LGBTQ folks).
Not all change is progressive, unfortunately.
Twenty years ago, at the turn of the century, many actual liberals and progressives who didn’t feel that they had to pander to bigots saw it that way. Establishment Dem politicians took a long time to catch up, and in the area of economic policy they’re still being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
Younger and “less white” leaders are going to try and solve the problem themselves by taking over the party and forcing the Overton Window leftwards again. The establishment will either adapt and thrive or fight back and and destroy the party.
Meanwhile, due to demographics, the older and lily-white GOP leaders are already becoming irrelevant to most Americans outside the Know-Nothing 27%, a tiny number of wealthy people, and a dwindling number of voters over age 60. That’s why they have to cheat and lie and appeal to bigots and why they ally themselves with noxious right-wing populists – it’s all they have left.
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We’re talking about the 1980s, not the 1880s. Most adults knew better than to wear blackface and KKK robes for laughs.
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Within the context of any place in the world, in any time period, it 
is a moral transgression . Race is a social construct, and any support of that construct a moral failing.
Get your head on straight.
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I thought you were the one who’s always arguing that a segregated society is the right way to go.
Now in this particular post you claim by your standards you’re happy segregation has ended?
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Yeah, that just makes people stare at the photo longer to try to figure it out.
The other guy is probably doing a little squirming right now too, wherever he is.
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The other guy right now…
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