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Old 10-11-2007, 04:32 PM
AlexM AlexM is offline
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Default Re: Ron Paul\'s racist comments

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From Paul's newsletter:
<font color="red">The criminals who terrorize our cities--in riots and on every non-riot day--are not exclusively young black males, but they largely are. As children, they are trained to hate whites, to believe that white oppression is responsible for all black ills, to "fight the power," and to steal and loot as much money from the white enemy as possible. Anything is justified against "The Man." And "The Woman.' </font>

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Do you disagree that some children are raised this way?

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The author alludes that all young black criminals are raised this way,

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No he doesn't. "They" obviously refers to the subject of the last sentence, which is "the criminals who terrorize".
(who he claims are largely black) This is quite a different statement than "all blacks are raised this way".

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So your rationalization that the comments aren't racist is to pick apart the semantics and grammar?


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WTF are you talking about? He's not picking apart semantics and grammar, he's stating what was clearly meant. If anything, you're the one picking apart semantics and grammar by trying to change the meaning by removing the words from context. He was very clearly talking specifically about criminals being raised this way.