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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis happened last week, remember?
He needs to resign.
Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) Tweeted:
This was last week https://t.co/rJubgOAZ5C
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This happened last week, remember? (Original Post)
irisblue
Feb 2019
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What he did was roughly ... oh ... 20 times more egregious, for so many reasons (nt)
mr_lebowski
Feb 2019
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FM123
(10,054 posts)1. Yep! It was just a week ago...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)2. What he did was roughly ... oh ... 20 times more egregious, for so many reasons (nt)
irisblue
(33,023 posts)3. Wait, Norton or Ertel?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)4. Are you joking? What the repuke did was 20 times worse ...
irisblue
(33,023 posts)5. The way you phrased it was unclear on my reading. Thanks for the clarification
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)6. Gotcha :)
I mean, the proximity to NOW being perhaps the most egregious part. Nobody in 2006 though blackface was okay anymore. 1984 was WAY different.
And then completely undeniably glaringly, purposeful, ridiculing racism?
And then on top of it ... HURRICANE VICTIMS?
Yeah ... THAT dude had to go. And if Northam had done that? Wouldn't even be any question he'd have to go too.