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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

denied that he is a racist based on the premise that he coached college football for years and worked with many people of colour even as he faces criticisms about his comments regarding white nationalism

You know ignoring all of the obviousness bullshit that not only indicates that this statement itself is racist and all of the empirical evidence that indicates that he is indeed racists. Just ignoring all of that for a moment.

The weather was sunny yesterday and today it was mostly cloudy. Who knew that the state of things could possibly change as we progress through linear time? So, let's just fucking throw the man a bone and say that somehow this dumbass wasn't a racist before and his off the edge "proof" is somehow solid.

Y'all brace yourselves. Shit changes over time! So when dude sits there and yaps:

Now, if that white nationalist is a racist, I'm totally against anything that they want to do, because I am 110 per cent against racism.

How else are they dumbass? I fucking pulled hands of tobacco, picked eggs from the coop, and milk cattle as a kid. I lived in dirt farm, BFE, my neighbor married his step niece, we didn't even have fucking roads middle of nowhere Tennessee AND EVEN I know that if this is what you are truly running with you are either:

  1. So fucking privileged that you literally have no concept of what racist means and you've got a long way to go to NOT be a fucking racist.
  2. Know exactly what you're saying and trying to be clever to say it without saying it, which you failed spectacularly at.

Either way, it doesn't matter which way the wind was blowing last week when the motherfucking twister is coming down today. That's what this shit boils down to. Whatever his fucking past, which even then it's not a good argument, none of that matters when racist ass shit is spewing out his goddamn mouth today and he's being unapologetic about it. Fucking hell, it might even be a bit of a different story if he was like "well, I'm a dumbass, sorry." Nah, it's US with our different definitions that's the problem.

I mean, everybody’s got a different – but I’m not getting into definitions,