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As a bonus, remember how, like, a week ago Florida's Secretary of State resigned over the exact same thing?

Let's see how THE LIBERAL MEDIA covered that one:

Versus, as long as it's a D:

****ing incredible, the media is complicit

I don't think so. The Florida Secretary of State was wearing blackface. The Northam photo is more complex. Are you suggesting they just mention blackface and not the KKK costume. Mentioning both makes the headline a bit too long. Your oranges do look different from your apples. Racist covers both the blackface and KKK images in a manner that fits in a headline.

02-02-2019 , 08:17 PM

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I think they will just impeach if he doesn't resign.

02-02-2019 , 08:41 PM

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With all the facial recognition technology that's out there, it would seem that one could get a very good idea of blackface dude was him or not. My impression that simple blackface wouldn't be enough to fool the algorithms. All we need is a good sample of photos of him and there has to be some technology out there that can shed some light on this.

Of course, I know nothing about facial recognition technology, so I could be way off here.

02-02-2019 , 08:50 PM

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You’ve been watching too much CSI. Facial recognition software isn’t quite that good, at least from the resolution this picture appears to be at on the newscasts.

02-02-2019 , 10:50 PM

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She’s running.

02-02-2019 , 10:57 PM

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She’s running.

Meh. Because she’s commenting on a story that literally everyone in existence in the political world is currently commenting on?

The only way she conceivably runs is if the Mueller investigation ends with conclusive proof that like vote totals were changed or something by Russia and she was legitimately robbed of the last election. And that seems unlikely at this point, but that’s probably why she’s keeping the door just ever so slightly open.

02-03-2019 , 12:32 AM

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It's hard to understand how this sort of thing could have ended up in a yearbook. Even if Northam was dumb enough to dress up this way for Halloween or whatever, yearbooks have editorial staffs, which means multiple people apparently thought this was appropriate to include in a yearbook.

He is from the eastern shore of Virginia. Part of my family is from there. It’s the land that time forgot. There is no doubt that very few people thatgrew up there wouldhave thought blackface and KKK costumes were a seriously bad thing. The Med school was in Norfolk which is just across the Chesapeake Bay. I imagine the people that attended/ran a medical school in Norfolk in 1984 weren’t much different.

02-03-2019 , 12:54 AM

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Also that year, I dressed up as [checks script] Michael Jackson. I'm a huge fan of Michael Jackson.

His Wikipedia page mentions that one of the schools he went to growing up had a majority of black students. Lol

02-03-2019 , 01:11 AM

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Rod is so awesome.

02-03-2019 , 02:20 AM

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02-03-2019 , 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by David Sklansky

Unfortunately you do not realize that that the type of person who ponders inane mathematical hypotheticals is a lot less likely to be racist than those who don't.
You admit that you said and did racist things in your past because you grew up in the south and racism was ingrained in the American culture. My father also grew up in the south and never bought into that attitude and ingrained anti racism in me. There is little doubt that his mathematical talents and his anti racism, in spite of where he grew up, was correlated.

my parents had the same approach as your father, doesn't mean i wasn't surrounded by racist dickheads where bigoted attitudes generally prevailed tho. i would obviously raise/teach my kids the same way.

literally everybody in america has some level of racism in their attitude or mentality- a lot of it may seem benign on the surface, but it's unavoidable because of how segregated and institutionalized/structural the prejudice is in our society. some of us try to recognize it and do better, that's all. denying it is not a good look and shows a lack of honesty or self awareness, fwiw.

and btw, the only people i ever see trying to bring mathematics into discussions about class/race are bigots attempting to justify their bigotry with references to crime and poverty figures (which are a self-perpetuating cycle due to injustice in this nation). but my comment about you wasn't meant to be taken in this way, i was just pointing out that this issue is obvious enough to take a firm stance about- no mathematical hypotheticals required.

02-03-2019 , 08:28 AM

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I mean, it's conceivable he never got a yearbook and didn't know about it I guess? The fact that people would put that on his page with a nickname of coonwhatever should give some idea of their impressions of him then. Either he picked the **** or people put that on his page for a reason. Unless Virginia is so bum**** backward they just put random KKK and blackface photos in the yearbook (lol Virginia if so).

ETA: mIssed him admitting to being in a photo at one point.

Dude, it's not conceivable to anyone that lived in the south pre 1990. He did it, he was proud of it. I can explain to you where the "coonman" nickname came from ... it's in the same spirit as "I dressed up like Michael Jackson once, and went light on the shoe polish".

02-03-2019 , 08:32 AM

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No. That simple answer doesn't work. Even if the intention is not to offend, blackface is still offensive. People have been skewered for this many times and rightly so.

Moreover, you can't just use blackface and say sorry, "It's just that my execution was poor, I really didn't mean to offend anyone." I mean you can say it, but it's not a legit excuse. You should know better, especially these days.

Forget the blackface. There's a ****ing KKK hood in the picture.

02-03-2019 , 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Melkerson

I'm not ****ing doing that. I have no intention of using it or justifying anyone else's use of it. That part is entirely inside your head.

This feels like Jordan Peterson spinnery by his fanbois.

JUST LISTEN TO HIS WORDS! WHY DO YOU NEED TO PARAPHRASE, JUST ONLY READ THE EXACT DOUBLETALK WORDS HE'S USING!

HE'S JUST ASKING QUESTIONS WITH NO PREROGATIVES! STOP PUTTING WORDS IN HIS MOUTH!!!

02-03-2019 , 10:38 AM

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If you were one of the bozos in that photo would you come forward?

02-03-2019 , 12:06 PM

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If you were one of the bozos in that photo would you come forward?

I’d think that the same kind of person who has a moral compass wherein they’d take a photo like that would be the same type of person who, for the right price, would come forward. Then again they’re all probably doctor’s now so it could be pretty painful for their careers.

02-03-2019 , 12:19 PM

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Forget the blackface. There's a ****ing KKK hood in the picture.

Sure. But not a single person here is defending either the blackface or the KKK hood.

02-03-2019 , 01:44 PM

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Can we move on?

02-03-2019 , 02:25 PM

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If your post was meant as some kind of hilarious pun maybe think about what kind of forum you're trying to run here.

he mean you wanna f--k kids dog

02-03-2019 , 02:30 PM

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grunching

he mean you wanna f--k kids dog

Get with the times, he's walked all that back.

02-03-2019 , 05:07 PM

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I can’t see this dude making it through Monday, everyone on tv is going to be teeing off on him and I’ll assume there will be protests to the same effect. I personally just think he is FOS can’t remember if he was in picture, has no idea why he was called “coonman” just hit the bricks already FFS

02-03-2019 , 05:07 PM

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The tip about the picture was given to a Breitbart alumni blogger in retaliation for the governor's comments on abortion

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...311_story.html

02-03-2019 , 09:58 PM

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I'm moving the stupid JAQ troll blackface discussion to the January LC thread. Any further discussion of the topic can take place there:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/4...ition-1732182/