“He has an excellent point about the white supremacy racist origins of the Progressive movement and how absurd it is that blacks now just fall right in line with them now that they use black nationalist racism as their cudgel.”
I wholehearted agree.
“...That’s gets lost in his unsupportable accusation...”
Actually, Lord doesn’t flat-out accuse Sherrod of lying.
Jeffrey Lord said:
“So why in the world would Ms. Sherrod say something like this?
No idea...”
“Again, I have no idea.”
If anything, this thread reveals how PCspeak has affected the way in which conservatives and Republicans engage in public discourse. And how emotional reactions cause individuals to make snap judgments. In so doing, we play the Progressives game because they dictate from the court, if you will, what subject of discussion is acceptable and what is not.
You yourself admitted that Jeffery Lord “...has an excellent point...”, and yet, you go on to say that he makes an “unsupportable accusation” when he in fact did not.
Since Obama’s inauguration, there has been countless topics of discussion concerning truth and accuracy involving our political leaders and public figures. And yet, amongst conservatives and Republicans, there is a double standard when the topic addresses such volatile issues as “lynching”, etc.
At the very least, this thread certainly is an example of the fact.
"Sherrod Story False""It isn't true."
"Shirley Sherrod's story in her now famous speech about the lynching of a relative is not true. The veracity..."
"There is also a third possibility for what appears to be a straight-out fabrication."
"Facts that make Sherrod appear, to put it mildly, prone to exaggeration if not worse."
"Will Anderson Cooper of CNN, who angrily snapped of Breitbart that "we think the truth matters," be investigating this untruth of Sherrod's?"
"Again, I have no idea what Sherrod's motivation in saying something so factually untrue could be."
If you want to hang your hat on the paper thin sophistry that he isn't calling her a liar because he couched it nine ways from Sunday then knock yourself out.
If anything, this thread reveals how PCspeak has affected the way in which conservatives and Republicans engage in public discourse.
What horse crap! There's not a PC bone in my body.
And how emotional reactions cause individuals to make snap judgments.
I can't speak for anyone else but I didn't make a snap judgment.