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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 04:53 PM Jan 2016

Fox News Focus Group Member: ‘You Can’t Even Speak The Truth Any More Or You’ll Be Called A Racist’

http://freakoutnation.com/2016/01/fox-news-focus-group-member-you-cant-even-speak-the-truth-any-more-or-youll-be-called-a-racist/

A Frank Luntz focus group thinks it's just so unfair that when they "speak the truth," people think they're racists. What kind of "truth" do you think they want to speak?...

The bigoted insinuations began immediately as one man complained that we pay as much for "refugees and immigrants" as we are paying for veterans' care.

There was a brief attack on ObamaCare as a woman claimed that health care "is going straight down the toilet" and "We can't convince doctors to treat patients." A man said he "got laid off because of ObamaCare and it's not fair."

And then there was this guy: "What bothers me the most in this country is that you can't even speak the truth any more or else you'll be called a racist or a bigot or any other thing." Got that? It doesn't just bother him, it bothers him more than anything else in this country.


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Fox News Focus Group Member: ‘You Can’t Even Speak The Truth Any More Or You’ll Be Called A Racist’ (Original Post) KamaAina Jan 2016 OP
Frank Luntz is a master at creating Wellstone ruled Jan 2016 #1
we pay as much for "refugees and immigrants" as we are paying for veterans' care. How true. BlueJazz Jan 2016 #2
Okay everybody, stop being mean to the racists C_U_L8R Jan 2016 #3
These are the same people that are quicl with the racist label Johonny Jan 2016 #4
When the 'political correctness' of liberals bothers you 'more than anything else', pampango Jan 2016 #5
Your delusional persecution complex does not constitute "truth," Gramps... nomorenomore08 Jan 2016 #6
 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
2. we pay as much for "refugees and immigrants" as we are paying for veterans' care. How true.
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 05:31 PM
Jan 2016

Food stamps and welfare also costs more than tax breaks for corporations and the MIC. Somebody just shoot me.

Johonny

(20,889 posts)
4. These are the same people that are quicl with the racist label
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 06:31 PM
Jan 2016

every time Obama does something it is due to race. Politically correct simple means freedom to label the other party with full immunity to your actions. It's meant to end conversations, not elevate them as this person suggests.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
5. When the 'political correctness' of liberals bothers you 'more than anything else',
Tue Jan 19, 2016, 06:58 PM
Jan 2016

your list of concerns must be pretty short.

It doesn't just bother him, it bothers him more than anything else in this country.

Of course the people who are bothered the most by the limitations on racist and bigoted speech that are imposed by liberal "political correctness" are racists and bigots.
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