Subj : Re: Finally
To   : Aaron Thomas
From : Ted T
Date : Mon Jul 29 2024 14:22:00

-=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Ted T <=-

 AT> @TZ: fe98
 TT> Just want to toss out there, as bad as it was, I don't think that
 TT> legislation actually passed.  It had really bad optics, including Kathy
 TT> Tran trying to answer for her bill, embarassingly, and Gov Ralph
 TT> Northam's really bad radio interview describing a post-birth arbortion,
 TT> "the baby will be kept comfortable" and "a discussion will ensue"
 TT> regarding whether to kill it or not.  What blew my mind was, how can
 TT> anything be kept comfortable while it's in a state of needing
 TT> resuscitation?  But after those remarks, maybe within a day or two,

 AT> Even if that legislation didn't pass, it served as an experiment to
 AT> determine how far insane leftists will go to back up the "woman's right
 AT> to choose" argument. Apparently, they will go pretty far indeed. Way
 AT> too far.

Agreed.

 TT> those pictures of him in KKK outfits and his nickname "coon man" in both
 TT> VMI year books and medical school yearbooks came out...so it rubbed

 AT> The media is evil, and they thought that people would get more
 AT> emotional about the blackface/kkk stuff than they would over the
 AT> post-birth abortions. I think they were wrong because I don't even live
 AT> in Virginia and I'm still repulsed - years later.

Everything is put out to get a response.  I don't even know who put it all out
there.  There were all sorts of rumors.

 TT> dressing up like Michael Jackson at a party, and even offered to show
 TT> that he could moonwalk.  ...ah, good times.  All 3 finished their posts so

 AT> I'm a white guy and I was Michael Jackson for Halloween one year when I
 AT> was a kid. Another year I went as Sadaam Hussein. There was nothing
 AT> racial about it, and nobody complained. I wonder how people would take
 AT> it if I did that now, as an adult? lol

I can only speak for myself.  It didn't offend me.  At the time, none of it was
really that controversial.  People have been trained well to react like they're
offended.  But it's sad these days even if you mean no actual harm, that you
need to really apply a filter to yourself before you speak or do.

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