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Houshphandzadeh wrote:yeah. don't really want to argue with you. everyone agrees the guy is a scumbag

Houshphandzadeh wrote:yeah. don't really want to argue with you. everyone agrees the guy is a scumbag

Houshphandzadeh wrote:yeah. don't really want to argue with you. everyone agrees the guy is a scumbag

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:yeah. don't really want to argue with you. everyone agrees the guy is a scumbag

Not everyone. Right now he's a hero of the alt-right. Greenwald still talks him up at every opportunity.

Soren wrote:
He's the weird intersection of the alt right and the far, far left.

For the most part, the discussion covered much of the same ground as last week’s debate in Pittsburgh. The loudest round of cheers and boos came toward the end of the night, when the candidates were responding to a question from moderator Jim Gardner about racism in American police departments. The boos started when Toomey began describing what he called “the problem with the Black Lives Matter movement.”

“I’m absolutely convinced that the vast majority of policemen and policewoman across this Commonwealth and the country are not racists,” Toomey said. “They’re trying to do the very best they can to protect us. And the problem with the Black Lives Matter movement, and Katie McGinty propagating this, is just that that phrase itself is meant to impugn the integrity of the police by implying that they don’t think that black lives do matter. And in fact, it’s my view that all lives matter, and I think police get that.”

The phrase “all lives matter” seems anodyne enough in a vacuum, but supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement bristle at it. That’s probably because it so often sounds like a glib affirmation of the value of human life, used to shut down conversations about structural problems that primarily hurt black people. Toomey was both booed and cheered for his answer. Moments earlier, in response to the same question, McGinty had uttered the phrase “black lives matter.” But in context, it sounded quite a bit like an “all lives matter” sort of pivot.

“We’ve made a lot of progress in this country in terms of taking on racism and discrimination, but we by no means have succeeded in eradicating racism and discrimination from our society,” McGinty said. “Let me say, in my faith tradition, I am happy to say black lives matter, because from where I stand, when we recognize the dignity of any person, we’re all lifted up. And when any person is denied dignity, we’re taken down.”

ONCE AGAIN, Toomey refused to say who he’ll vote for in the presidential election. Gardner asked him directly, and Toomey gave another version of the answer he’s been giving regularly: Both candidates are bad, and he feels “stuck,” but he believes that Trump might sign some legislation and nominate some Supreme Court justices that he likes.

thephan wrote:

Soren wrote:
He's the weird intersection of the alt right and the far, far left.

I have always viewed political leanings as a circle with the extremes meeting at the top. The Fringe Right and Loony Left start to trip over each other up in that rare air, they just disagree with who benefits/loses from the conspiratorial outcome.