Matt, what if she'd claimed Jewish heritage and Trump called her Shlomo Goldbergwitz?
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False analogy. *Maybe* if she had pretended to be Jewish & he called her "Golda Meir" it might be similar. Still apples & oranges...
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Any decent person would've stopped using it long ago Esp now as he attacks Clinton Read thishttp://www.cnn.com/2016/05/21/opinions/donald-trump-elizabeth-warren-native-american-moya-smith/ …
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this hyper-sensitive political correctness actually undermines legit concerns about Trump's real dog whistle comments.
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It isn't hypersensitivity Trump has a long history of doing thishttp://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/02/how-trump-smeared-native-americans-back-in-1993.html …
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You're not going to get me to defend Trump, which is to defend the indefensible. But the Pocahontas thing is overwrought.
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so you're saying "pocahontas" is the moral equivalent of the n word?
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not even close. How disrespectful to those actually legitimately offended by the n word. You dilute it.
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I'm native Alaskan, we're more offended by Warren's false exploitation of NA than those making fun of her.
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#AlwaysTrump did give his apologies to Pocahontas... ;)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ddale8 Um, only if clueless people were an ethnicity. This isn't that complicated.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ddale8 if anything her pretending to be Indian is the racist gag hereThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@mattklewis It's really not.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ddale8 come on the English language is racist, don't you know?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@indianreagan@ddale8 Thank you for pointing this out .. This whole narrative was riding me insaneThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ddale8 Matt, there aren't any ethnic implications in "Sherlock" (though I see your general point)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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