So What About The "Lynching" Comment Controversy?

[abysmul]

Much ado...

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

Did I mention the President is behaving like a crybaby?

Without a doubt. Trump is the biglyest snowflake of them all.

 

[Basil the Great]

Not a good idea only because it is apparently not politically correct. But was that generally known before this incident? No. So we are living in a country in which the extremists can forbid certain words as the occasion arises and everyone is supposed not only to speak as they have ordered but to know in advance which words are allowed or disallowed or have just been invented.

Yes, it is not politically correct.

 

[Sanoy]

Let's think positive here. It's not Hippocritical when the left does it if the right does it too. We are actually very fair with each other, some might even say "too fair".

 

[Kentonio]

Fair enough. You consider it was always wrong. The Dems a few short years ago didn't. And where's the link, showing the date and time when society crossed the line where the word in question couldn't be used. We know the history of the using of the "N" word causing offence can be very well documented.

So demonstrate to us where the "L" word in question is out of bounds based on history. Or isn't the REAL TRUTH rather that Dems are simply making things up as they go along for mere political posturing? And do you not think The People won't see SEE the extreme hypocrisy of the Dems arguments? Double standards and lacking consistency and the list can go on and on?

As Abraham Lincoln once said, "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

I don't know whats so confusing about this. Lynching was a form of torture and murder used primarily to punish and oppress African Americans. Using it in the political context is more than a little insensitive to the black community as it cheapens what was a bloody and vicious action.

20 years ago the black community had a lot less of a voice than it does today, but that doesn't mean it wasn't wrong to use it back then either, just that today people feel able to actually speak out about things like this, and expect to be listened to.

That listening part can't be stressed enough. People on the GOP side continue to refuse to listen to African Americans, and prefer to tell them what they should and shouldn't be allowed to care about. Perhaps that might be why Trump got a pitiful 8% of the black vote in 2016?

 

[Always in His Presence]

We saw the left run off into hysterics when Trump referred to what he was being subjected to as a political "lynching".

It's being stated along the lines that nobody having any sensitivity would use that word in a political narrative due to the seriousness of what the real, physical thing it was in U.S. history. Problem is though they themselves among the Dems have used it numerous times when Bill Clinton was impeached.

How about Joe Biden when on CNN in October 1998 when he called Clinton's impeachment a "partisan lynching" ????

Or how about the Dem Jerrold Nadler who said three different times that Clinton's impeachment was carried out by a “lynch mob.” (Newsday on Sept. 13, 1998.)

And then there was Then-Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), who served nearly 20 years in the House, who stated on Sept 12/98, (Baltimore Sun) about Clinton's impeachment,

“This feels today like we’re taking a step down the road to becoming a political lynch mob,” McDermott said at the time. “Find the rope, find the tree and ask a bunch of questions later.”

So why exactly is it that Dems jump off into hysterics over Trump who is using the term in a political sense when they themselves have condoned it's usage a few years prior? Why all the sudden the wild outrage being expressed? Not clearly a sign of one standard for the Dems and something else expected and demanded for others? You're either against the usage of the term or you're not. Which is it?

Because it is Trump

Plain and simple

It makes him look bad, so we have to scream at the top of our lungs about it.

 

[TLK Valentine]

We saw the left run off into hysterics when Trump referred to what he was being subjected to as a political "lynching".

It's being stated along the lines that nobody having any sensitivity would use that word in a political narrative due to the seriousness of what the real, physical thing it was in U.S. history. Problem is though they themselves among the Dems have used it numerous times when Bill Clinton was impeached.

How about Joe Biden when on CNN in October 1998 when he called Clinton's impeachment a "partisan lynching" ????

Or how about the Dem Jerrold Nadler who said three different times that Clinton's impeachment was carried out by a “lynch mob.” (Newsday on Sept. 13, 1998.)

And then there was Then-Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), who served nearly 20 years in the House, who stated on Sept 12/98, (Baltimore Sun) about Clinton's impeachment,

“This feels today like we’re taking a step down the road to becoming a political lynch mob,” McDermott said at the time. “Find the rope, find the tree and ask a bunch of questions later.”

So why exactly is it that Dems jump off into hysterics over Trump who is using the term in a political sense when they themselves have condoned it's usage a few years prior? Why all the sudden the wild outrage being expressed? Not clearly a sign of one standard for the Dems and something else expected and demanded for others? You're either against the usage of the term or you're not. Which is it?

You approved of Biden when he said it, therefore you approve of Donald when he says it.

 

[Always in His Presence]

No outcry for Biden, Nadler or McDermott, perfectly acceptable to the media and their handlers in the Democratic Party

- but all screaming about Trump.

 

[TLK Valentine]

No outcry for Biden, Nadler or McDermott, perfectly acceptable to the media and their handlers in the Democratic Party

- but all screaming about Trump.

Your approval of the use of the term is noted.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Because it is Trump

Plain and simple

It makes him look bad, so we have to scream at the top of our lungs about it.

How does it make him look bad?

 

[Always in His Presence]

Your approval of the use of the term is noted.

Got anything to add to the topic of the thread, or are you here just for little ole me?

 

[Always in His Presence]

How does it make him look bad?

Then you agree it was perfectly acceptable when the Democrats were using the term lynching.

 

[Bobber]

I don't know whats so confusing about this. Lynching was a form of torture and murder used primarily to punish and oppress African Americans. Using it in the political context is more than a little insensitive to the black community as it cheapens what was a bloody and vicious action.

20 years ago the black community had a lot less of a voice than it does today,

I think you better explain then why members of the black community who were in Congress used the term themselves speaking about the Clinton impeachment? You make it seem like they were always against the use of the term. Something here you all better watch. Doesn't seem they and the rest of the Dems were opposed to the use of the word at all.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Got anything to add to the topic of the thread, or are you here just for little ole me?

I'm noting that the Right approves of the term... and why shouldn't they?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Then you agree it was perfectly acceptable when the Democrats were using the term lynching.

That’s not an answer to my question. You said it makes him look bad. How, if there are people in this thread arguing it was perfectly acceptable?

 

[TLK Valentine]

Then you agree it was perfectly acceptable when the Democrats were using the term lynching.

When is it not acceptable?

 

[Always in His Presence]

I'm noting that the Right approves of the term... and why shouldn't they?

Yup and the Party of the Democrats had no issue with it either, that is until a Republican used it. Perhaps because members of their party, not too long ago supported the idea literally.

 

[Always in His Presence]

That’s not an answer to my question. You said it makes him look bad. How, if there are people in this thread arguing it was perfectly acceptable?

The Democratic member and their minions in the media are attempting to make him look bad (see any of the left newscasts) as part of their partisan propaganda. All while summarily ignoring the numbers of times when they themselves used the very same phrase. Repeatedly.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Yup and the Party of the Democrats had no issue with it either.

25 years ago...

Have Republicans not matured, evolved or changed in their views at all in the span of a generation?

 

[GoldenBoy89]

The Democratic member and their minions in the media are attempting to make him look bad (see any of the left newscasts) as part of their partisan propaganda.

By showing him saying offensive things? That's an incredible ability they have to control the president's own actions and words.

All while summarily ignoring the numbers of times when they themselves used the very same phrase. Repeatedly.

Or it could be people from 30 years ago are no longer relevant to any discussions we're having about the current president.