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With qualifiers, certainly. At that time nobody was equating black-face with the act of darkening your skin for the purposes of being accurate to the complexion of a specific person. As far as him using the N-word in a comedic gangster rap? That's not even a blip on my radar.

I think that's a bit puritanical. If we put everything into the most absolute sense then yes, I agree with you, but I don't think the world can work if every perceived slight is met with castigation.

...of how to make a bad infographic? I have no idea what that's trying to say aside from vague accusations about things all of us are against.

A very comprehensive article after the May 28 flight of the C208B test aircraft. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200617-the-largest-electric-plane-ever-to-fly

Good. Then there's nothing to see here other than the 100th failed attempt to make an outspoken critic of Trump look bad for something he did before there was any real issue with the similarity between blackface and actors darkening their skin for a part.

And this was a sketch from decades ago that he has clearly stated wasn't intended to cause harm to a categorical group of people and he understands that depictions in which ones skin is darkened are not appropriate because of the similarity to the practice of donning black-face. Are you mad that BLM isn't reacting to the attempts by Fox News and DJT Jr to make this an issue?

Do you think he IS getting a pass and what does that have to do with whether it's been dug up or on the surface all of this time?

This thing with Jimmy Kimmel has never been below the surface and he's addressed it repeatedly. I comes up every time he becomes outspoken towards a politician and they need a 'whatabout' rebuttal towards him.

First, because it's Don Junior and Fox leading the charge on this. Second, it was YOUR statement: [". . . And if it were a conservative entertainer - there would be no chance in hell he would ever work again on any major network. (probably not any minor ones either) There are two standards at work here. Its refreshing to see the more liberal leaning voices get handed their crow to eat."] ...that prompted my questions to you. If there are two standards then where is your example of the first standard. People have being doing this for a long time and there are many and more recently that don't get the same attention. There are episodes of 30 Rock with people using blackface, there are versions of NWA - Straight Outta Compton performed by white people simply because it's funny to hear a coffee house version from someone like Nina Gordon. So, if you want to talk about two standards at work then how about the false outrage towards someone outspoken like Jimmy Kimmel vs. people like Tina Fey or Nina Gordon.

So you think Fox and Donald Trump Junior are motivated by bringing the truth of racial injustice to light? Still waiting on that list of conservatives who unjustly lost their careers for doing the same thing. Edit: By now I know you've done a search or two and aren't coming up with anything worthwhile.

I agree with throwing it out on the grounds that it's hard to prosecute a shit-show.

You're talking about his impersonation of Snoop Dogg, right? The song from 1996? If that's so then I don't care, that's a very contextualized use of that word and there are millions of people on the planet who have sung along to many many many rap songs using that word. You don't get an automatic gotcha if someone does any of that. Again, who was a conservative entertainer who's career was ended by doing this? Meaning an honest, not deliberately racist depiction of a black person. This is nothing more than the 100th attempt to take down someone who vocally opposes Trump.

The difference in that regard is whether it makes fun of the individual or all of the members of that race. Making fun of Carl Malone with an accurate depiction of Carl Malone isn't meant to target a race. But, continuing with the point of your question, does that depiction inherently offend other black people? At that time there was no outcry over actors doing it but now it's now an issue in retrospect.

Like who? In any case, and this is my personal opinion, dressing up as a black person isn't blackface. Blackface is a flat out racist depiction, darkening one's skin for the purposes of a costume requires the context of what that costume was for. If you're a college bro dressed crunk, a bit racist, if you're C. Thomas Howell, not racist but that whole movie missed the point and shouldn't have existed. Jimmy Kimmel didn't do anything racist but his girlfriend definitely did.

The funny part of this is Republicans and people like Donald Trump Jr. stoking the flames of an action that they themselves care nothing about. They would call the response false outrage if it were about themselves or political allies.

I don't live in PA but if I did I still couldn't claim further insight as to what happens with Biden. As the article states, it appears to be an event in which they invited 20 people and had them sit at a distance from each other as Biden delivered a televised speech. So, that's not what one would call a rally.

Do we have an equivalent Biden rally to compare it to? Does that matter? Until Trump has given his concession speech there will be nothing certain about this election.

Bingo.

Those are two things affecting D numbers more than R. Covid is more prevalent in more densely populated areas where Democrats live also Democrats tend to take the threat more seriously and may not go to the polls. This Double Whammy of voter suppression could hand Trump the win.

Let's remember that these moves by top level Republicans may not be relevant to the common voter.

Considering his win over HRC this is a dangerous assumption.

They're perfect for each other. I don't know what Trump thought he was getting by hiring a self-serving fringe politics TV personality but he deserves every bit of it.

I appreciate the iron of this.

This guy chose a book deal over providing any relevant information on the President he's now throwing under the bus for money. He has zero regard for the interests of the United States.

Quite a quandary we have ourselves in with these lax gun laws, huh?