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"What Richards did in attacking a heckler's race was imply that a black person had better not heckle him, it was not acceptable behavior."

You think that Richards ONLY lashed out because they were black?

That is quite a stretch.

[Defiant]

What's a stretch is the effort you go to to minimize and excuse what is clearly an offensive racist outburst. If this thread lasts 2000 posts, I think I'll see you on post 1999 telling us about Chris Rock or something equally irrelevant. You have issues with condemnation of legitimate racism when it occurs, I don't know what they are, and I really don't care. I just do hope that you are very atypical of conservatives. I have always believed such, especially among those who grew up after a certain time, but I wonder sometimes when I see a significant number of people on a board like this just continue over and over to excuse outright racist behavior and beliefs. I think it's just that such types are more likely to post on a thread like this.

Liberals want affirmative action and quotas. Conservatives are for a colorblind society, in which people are judged for their own merit. Conservatives are also highly protective of free speech and personal liberty, which can mean that we tolerate hateful beliefs, statements and actions by people. Tolerating something as part of a free society does not mean encouraging or promoting it. Kramer can believe whatever he wants. We don't have to buy tickets to his shows, and now that people know more about him, much fewer people will. Similarly, you are entitled to fight to the death on your view that Kramer has done nothing wrong, but we don't have to pay attention to you any longer. You have revealed something about yourself on this thread, too.