Kenny wrote:Not really. Rallying on about general history and rallying on something that directly affected someone are two different things. So its completely relevant. He took something he knew would easily piss them off to get back at them. Unfortunately it's the easiest way to get back at them, very low brow on his end.
It still makes it wrong. It still makes it justifiable that people got pissed at him and are probably still pissed at him. But does it make him a racist? I don't think so. He also apparently made anti-semetic remarks prior to the racist ones (not Holocaust related but still). The guy's just an idiot, bottom line.
He's a racist dude, bottom line. And racist are idiots by default. You don't say racist things just because you're upset. You have to have those beliefs in your subconscious. I could give a pass on using racial stereotypes, but he went straight to Jim Crow. And that article only proves my point, especially since that's not the only example. *done*