hi @PittsburghPG. You write, "We have to stop calling each other names in this country and battle each other with ideas and issues"
If I wanted to call Trump a name, I'd say something about Cheetohs. If I wanted to battle his ideas, I'd call him racist & argue why. B/c he is.
The Editorial Board of the @PittsburghPG, a major American newspaper, actually wrote this.
And released it on King Day.
It may well be the dumbest, most aloof and problematic statement I've ever seen on race from an editorial board.
Full piece: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2018/01/15/Reason-as-racism-An-immigration-debate-gets-derailed/stories/201801150024 …pic.twitter.com/A0IloWpQWm
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This trash editorial is the product of the publisher, John Block, and not the editorial board. Block placed the editorial in his other paper, The Toledo Blade, and then ordered the PG editor to republish it on MLK Day in Pgh.pic.twitter.com/uUcZ4LIOc2
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There has been vocal resistance. The
@PittsburghFdn and@HeinzEndow published this response: http://www.heinz.org/just-pittsburgh/shame …
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If journalists can't report the truth, the news becomes devoid of meaning.
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I kind of agree with some of it. Racist is too easy to throw out now. Black man not treated the way he feels st work. Why? They racist! No, u ain’t handling business. It’s not all racist. Even privilege doesn’t mean racist. But much privilege is a byproduct of racism.
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I agree with the newspaper, you can't just use that word, it has to have meaning and I think it has already been lost.
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"great human stain" is a perfect descriptor for schrlumpf though. In so many ways.
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They didn't write it. They were forced to publish it by their owner. Tell the whole story.
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Lord...
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So the more people that exhibit racist behaviour, the less we can use 'racist' to describe them?
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Have you seen this reply from former PG employees who are disgusted? https://www.facebook.com/mark.roth.12/posts/10215225518013520 …
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Amazing... but does clearly illustrate the magnitude of the problem.
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