Virginia megathread

[Coastal Elitist]

Yeah if this was real it would have come out during the election. Also this would be incredibly easy to PhotoShop.

[Coastal Elitist]

I find it hilarious how many Deplorable, hypocritical blue avatars come-out from under the rock, when they see threads like this, but hide their head in shame when they don't post in threads about their Moron-In-Chief and this clownish administration.

Fair point, being hypocritical is not admirable.  On this subject, though, do you think he should resign?

Yes. The answer is easy.
And the answer is usually easy for people to answer for those who lean left, and says ALOT compared to those who lean right. Hell, many on the right just ignore events like this (if it was a Republican) and don't say anything either way; I guess they like to just exist in "pretend world" and play like it didn't happen.
That is what I find Deplorable about many blue-avatars here.
A Republican elected official or candidate is found to do something racist, or who sexually chases young teenage girls, (or if guns kill someone) and blue-avatars refuse to denounce something that should be so easy to do.
Now if it was their mother/sister/daughter/child that was done wrong, of course those blue avatars would be angry, but if its someone else's mother/sister/daughter/child, than the "R" next to the GOP candidate means more. Disgusting!

Nice false equivalency. There's a huge difference between doing something racist and doing something illegal. Rape and murder are illegal while dressing up in black face or a KKK robe is not. Should someone's career really be ruined because they did a non illegal activity. It most certainly should in the event of a suspected crime, like what Roy Moore is alleged to have done.

Also weren't actors in Hollywood still using blackface during the time period when this picture was taken. Just look at a 1983 film called Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd where he adorns blackface as a disguise. That film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Where's the outrage on that?

My point is that this photo happened a long time ago in a period where something like this would not be that uncommon especially in the south.

[Coastal Elitist]

I find it hilarious how many Deplorable, hypocritical blue avatars come-out from under the rock, when they see threads like this, but hide their head in shame when they don't post in threads about their Moron-In-Chief and this clownish administration.

Fair point, being hypocritical is not admirable.  On this subject, though, do you think he should resign?

Yes. The answer is easy.
And the answer is usually easy for people to answer for those who lean left, and says ALOT compared to those who lean right. Hell, many on the right just ignore events like this (if it was a Republican) and don't say anything either way; I guess they like to just exist in "pretend world" and play like it didn't happen.
That is what I find Deplorable about many blue-avatars here.
A Republican elected official or candidate is found to do something racist, or who sexually chases young teenage girls, (or if guns kill someone) and blue-avatars refuse to denounce something that should be so easy to do.
Now if it was their mother/sister/daughter/child that was done wrong, of course those blue avatars would be angry, but if its someone else's mother/sister/daughter/child, than the "R" next to the GOP candidate means more. Disgusting!

Nice false equivalency. There's a huge difference between doing something racist and doing something illegal. Rape and murder are illegal while dressing up in black face or a KKK robe is not. Should someone's career really be ruined because they did a non illegal activity. It most certainly should in the event of a suspected crime, like what Roy Moore is alleged to have done.

Also weren't actors in Hollywood still using blackface during the time period when this picture was taken. Just look at a 1983 film called Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd where he adorns blackface as a disguise. That film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Where's the outrage on that?

My point is that this photo happened a long time ago in a period where something like this would not be that uncommon especially in the south.

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1091488904832794626

And what if this new revelation (above) has validity?

I still stand by what I said. I'm tired of all the outrage at everything. If this attitude keeps up our generation and younger ones are going to be screwed. Basically everything that you've done is on social media for everyone to see. There's bound to be something bad that someone can dig up on you.

Here's a prime example. Top college athlete had to apologize for something he tweeted when he was 14. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/heisman-trophy-winner-kyler-murray-apologizes-anti-gay-tweets-n945901

[Coastal Elitist]

I find it hilarious how many Deplorable, hypocritical blue avatars come-out from under the rock, when they see threads like this, but hide their head in shame when they don't post in threads about their Moron-In-Chief and this clownish administration.

Fair point, being hypocritical is not admirable.  On this subject, though, do you think he should resign?

Yes. The answer is easy.
And the answer is usually easy for people to answer for those who lean left, and says ALOT compared to those who lean right. Hell, many on the right just ignore events like this (if it was a Republican) and don't say anything either way; I guess they like to just exist in "pretend world" and play like it didn't happen.
That is what I find Deplorable about many blue-avatars here.
A Republican elected official or candidate is found to do something racist, or who sexually chases young teenage girls, (or if guns kill someone) and blue-avatars refuse to denounce something that should be so easy to do.
Now if it was their mother/sister/daughter/child that was done wrong, of course those blue avatars would be angry, but if its someone else's mother/sister/daughter/child, than the "R" next to the GOP candidate means more. Disgusting!

Nice false equivalency. There's a huge difference between doing something racist and doing something illegal. Rape and murder are illegal while dressing up in black face or a KKK robe is not. Should someone's career really be ruined because they did a non illegal activity. It most certainly should in the event of a suspected crime, like what Roy Moore is alleged to have done.

Also weren't actors in Hollywood still using blackface during the time period when this picture was taken. Just look at a 1983 film called Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd where he adorns blackface as a disguise. That film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Where's the outrage on that?

My point is that this photo happened a long time ago in a period where something like this would not be that uncommon especially in the south.

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1091488904832794626

And what if this new revelation (above) has validity?

I still stand by what I said. I'm tired of all the outrage at everything. If this attitude keeps up our generation and younger ones are going to be screwed. Basically everything that you've done is on social media for everyone to see. There's bound to be something bad that someone can dig up on you.

Here's a prime example. Top college athlete had to apologize for something he tweeted when he was 14. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/heisman-trophy-winner-kyler-murray-apologizes-anti-gay-tweets-n945901

Image going through this for every political candidate from our generation, because that's what the reality will be.

[Coastal Elitist]

I find it hilarious how many Deplorable, hypocritical blue avatars come-out from under the rock, when they see threads like this, but hide their head in shame when they don't post in threads about their Moron-In-Chief and this clownish administration.

Fair point, being hypocritical is not admirable.  On this subject, though, do you think he should resign?

Yes. The answer is easy.
And the answer is usually easy for people to answer for those who lean left, and says ALOT compared to those who lean right. Hell, many on the right just ignore events like this (if it was a Republican) and don't say anything either way; I guess they like to just exist in "pretend world" and play like it didn't happen.
That is what I find Deplorable about many blue-avatars here.
A Republican elected official or candidate is found to do something racist, or who sexually chases young teenage girls, (or if guns kill someone) and blue-avatars refuse to denounce something that should be so easy to do.
Now if it was their mother/sister/daughter/child that was done wrong, of course those blue avatars would be angry, but if its someone else's mother/sister/daughter/child, than the "R" next to the GOP candidate means more. Disgusting!

Nice false equivalency. There's a huge difference between doing something racist and doing something illegal. Rape and murder are illegal while dressing up in black face or a KKK robe is not. Should someone's career really be ruined because they did a non illegal activity. It most certainly should in the event of a suspected crime, like what Roy Moore is alleged to have done.

Also weren't actors in Hollywood still using blackface during the time period when this picture was taken. Just look at a 1983 film called Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd where he adorns blackface as a disguise. That film has an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Where's the outrage on that?

My point is that this photo happened a long time ago in a period where something like this would not be that uncommon especially in the south.

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1091488904832794626

And what if this new revelation (above) has validity?

I still stand by what I said. I'm tired of all the outrage at everything. If this attitude keeps up our generation and younger ones are going to be screwed. Basically everything that you've done is on social media for everyone to see. There's bound to be something bad that someone can dig up on you.

Here's a prime example. Top college athlete had to apologize for something he tweeted when he was 14. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/heisman-trophy-winner-kyler-murray-apologizes-anti-gay-tweets-n945901

Image going through this for every political candidate from our generation, because that's what the reality will be.

And the governor has not confirmed (yet) which one of the two people in the image, he is portraying. So he could be the one in the KKK suit (and not the one in blackface).
Is that acceptable?

It's a wrong thing to do, but that doesn't mean that he should lose his job over it. Especially because it was 35 years ago. Every politician who has driven drunk has done something worse than Norman did and you still see them in office.

[Coastal Elitist]

Lol, looks like I was right about everyone having skeletons in their closet. Now this is obviously different from the two blackface incidents, but still my point stands. Also just because a story can't be corroborated doesn't mean that it's not true. Most sexual assaults are one on one situations without an audience.

[Coastal Elitist]

So someone got offended by a history lesson? All she literally did was hand out a bunch of cotton to students and one of them was black, nobody was singled out. I'm so tired of these social media outrage mobs who feel the need to be offended by everything.