“When I was brought up, I was taught to speak plainly and briefly to get my point across, and race was on the table as a subject. In my view it still is.”
Well, I don’t know when you were brought up, but welcome to now.
“Bundy had no artificial curbs on his speech either so to the chronically offended, he offended them, as is the usual and expected result.”
No. He offended people besides the chronically offended. It just wasn’t a very mart way to say what he was trying to say.
No amount of argument is going to make it any smarter.
“If you look at the Constitution, there is no particular constraints on speech. The left never throttles their speakers! Why is it that you must criticize Bundy for his?”
Because I’m not a hypocrite. The way he said it was offensive to a lot of people. Race never needed to enter the discussion. You’re either for freedom and liberty for everybody....or nobody.
I also hate it when southerners are described by liberal yankees as stupid rednecks. Of course some southerners are stupid rednecks. But that’s an idiotic stereotype and the exception, not the rule.
Mr. Bundy just did the same thing.
“To mention race is not racist! “
To single out a particular race as being more dependent or more abortion prone while not realizing that those are the issues and concerns of all Americans...well...it was dumb.
He painted all black people with a really broad and incorrect brush. Much the way liberal yankees paint all southerners.
People are all the same. Mr. Bundy brought race into it.
He was not derisive in his comments. They were made out of concern, and not racism.
It is also a fact that I have heard similar comments from various black leaders, pastors, and even a hollywood actor or two.
Your perception is just wrong. You need to rethink it.
I think he brought the black race into it because they were of course the ones who made up the majority race of those who were slaves correct?
It’s all about Context. Ya know?