[Sabertooth]

You don't think Lott meant anything racist, or that he is, in fact, racist, still it's an "inescapable fact" that he is racist.

Help me out here. I don't get it.

The inescapable fact is not that Lott is a racist, it's that on the very face his breathtakingly ill-considered remarks, the plainest sense was that he was paying homage to Strom Thrumond's segregationist campaign of 1948.

When someone says, "I'm gonna kill him," the plainest sense is that he intends murder, though an examination of context might inform us otherwise.

Words mean things, and Lott's words mean he is through as Majority Leader.

[sinkspur]

The inescapable fact is not that Lott is a racist, it's that on the very face his breathtakingly ill-considered remarks, the plainest sense was that he was paying homage to Strom Thrumond's segregationist campaign of 1948.

Actually, he wasn't. He was paying homage to Strom Thurmond. If he had said "and I think your segregation platform was just dandy," then you'd have a point.

But, you read into Lott's statement what you wanted to read into it.

[GraniteStateConservative]

When someone says, "I'm gonna kill him," the plainest sense is that he intends murder, though an examination of context might inform us otherwise.

Occam's razor... we should slice and dice Trent "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever" Lott with it.