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Clapper says Russians ‘genetically driven' to be untrustworthy — and no one even blinks
RT (Russia Today) ^ | 03 June 2017 | Danielle Ryan

Posted on 06/04/2017 11:51:30 AM PDT by Lorianne

The former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper thinks Russians have some sort of biological predilection to be an untrustworthy bunch. I wish I was making that up, but sadly, I’m not.

Clapper said it during last Sunday’s episode of Meet The Press on NBC, during a response to a question about Jared Kushner’s ties to Moscow. The Russians are “typically, almost genetically driven to co-opt, penetrate, gain favor, whatever” — was the exact quote.

There’s great irony in that comment by Clapper, with his own record of perjury, implying that an entire ethnicity can’t be trusted. So, of course, widespread outrage followed the blatantly xenophobic comment.

Nah, I’m only joking. No one actually noticed or cared. Chuck Todd, the interviewer, let the comment slide without even acknowledging that Clapper had said something untoward.

If there was a debate about Clapper’s comment and it was deemed somehow acceptable, that would be bad enough — but it’s actually worse than that, because anti-Russian sentiment is so deeply ingrained in the American psyche, that no one even notices when a high profile figure like Clapper makes a comment about the “genetics” of Russians in an effort to brand them as inherently devious and conniving.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
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To: ichabod1
but I can’t understand why it is so ok to say bad things about Russian people.

They're white.

41 posted on 06/04/2017 12:45:26 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ichabod1
The ones I’ve meet have all been perfectly nice, except for that kind of dour thing

That's a Slavic thing.

42 posted on 06/04/2017 12:46:11 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lorianne

Wow...

I’m 95 % Russian heritage.

Third generation.

Its in my genes to be untrustworthy?

Clapper can KMA.


43 posted on 06/04/2017 12:47:58 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Lorianne

I’m not sure who is the bigger slimeball of the Obama national security apparatus: James Clapper at NSA or the Muslim, James Brennan at CIA. I guess Clapper has it by a nose.


44 posted on 06/04/2017 12:48:59 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Lorianne

Another domestic enemy pipes up to undercut our nation.


45 posted on 06/04/2017 12:51:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (When you have covfefe you don't need anything else.)
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To: Theo

Sometimes the truth will get you in trouble.

Patton said something similar regarding the Ruskies.


46 posted on 06/04/2017 1:08:17 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Americans are modern day Amorites ripe for destruction)
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To: Lorianne

Clapper is genetically driven to be a lying traitorous piece of obama.


47 posted on 06/04/2017 1:11:01 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Lorianne

Seems Racist.


48 posted on 06/04/2017 1:31:00 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Lorianne

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/21/nyregion/59-years-ago-they-fled-to-an-internment-camp.html


49 posted on 06/04/2017 1:45:04 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Lorianne

He’s projecting again.


50 posted on 06/04/2017 1:46:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Some people consider government to be a necessary evil, others their personal Ponzi scheme.)
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To: Lorianne

What a nasty bastid. But I guess it’s okay to say anything you want about the Russians, now that the Dems have decided they hate Russia because it rejected (or proved the failure of) Communism.


51 posted on 06/04/2017 1:46:25 PM PDT by livius
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To: Lorianne
The former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper thinks Russians have some sort of biological predilection to be an untrustworthy bunch. I wish I was making that up, but sadly, I’m not.

No. Liberals are.

52 posted on 06/04/2017 1:56:36 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Lorianne

Something like Hillary being a CONGENITAL LIAR ( William Safire description )


53 posted on 06/04/2017 2:11:06 PM PDT by uncbob
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To: Lorianne
And there it is, they finally admit it.

Slavophobes, one and all.

54 posted on 06/04/2017 2:22:09 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Lorianne

It is true Russians are very experienced in lying and killing their neighbors. Genetic? I doubt it, just the world they have created.


55 posted on 06/04/2017 6:00:52 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Lorianne

Jeez - next he’ll be saying blacks are genetically driven to be lazy and dishonest......


56 posted on 06/04/2017 6:36:47 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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