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Angry white men
Topic Started: Dec 23 2016, 05:11 AM (431 Views)
ImaHeadaU
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Banandangees
Dec 24 2016, 09:18 PM
It's not his "opinion" that I object to, it's his public statement, that some how I and all the millions of white folks (and black folks) who voted for Trump are "angry white men." It was a negative connotation attributed to all who voted against Hillary... who called them "a basket of deplorables." But again, to me, Bill's statement was "offensive."
Since You didn't supply a link to Mr. Clinton's quote, I took your word that he "indicated that it was the "angry white man" among the causes for the election results. So I searched for and found a link to a Fox News piece that says "Former President Bill Clinton mocked President-elect Donald Trump’s intelligence, said 'angry, white men' helped secure his victory." while presenting something different in the text off the story. Fortunately, they provide a link to their source for their information.

While shopping in a Westchester County, New York bookstore Mr. Clinton spontaneously answered questions put to him by other shoppers.

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Addressing the main causes of Hilary Clinton’s defeat, however, was a black-and-white matter. “James Comey cost her the election,” he declared early in the conversation, echoing his wife’s assessment. The FBI director’s announcement two weeks before the vote that he was re-opening the agency’s investigation into the candidate’s use of a private email server proved catastrophic, he maintained. “We were seven (percentage) points up” in national polls at the time, he said, and on a path to win four key states, which helped put Donald Trump over the top in electoral votes. In his view, no one made enough of the fact that the FBI director also said there was no further evidence of illegal activities. The damage was already done, both to Hillary and to the reputation of law enforcement as an independent institution “that the American people know that they can trust.”

And so it went. In the book-filled oasis, where knowledge and facts and history were recorded and analyzed, the former president was in his element. Ten, 20, 30 minutes passed. More questions came. On Donald Trump: Yes, he did receive a phone call from the president-elect the day after the election. Mr. Trump came across as cordial, he said, incredulous, “like it was 15 years ago” when the Clintons and Trumps were seen socializing. Mr. Trump threw out what was meant as a compliment about his opponent: “She was tougher than I thought she’d be.”

“Is Trump smart?” a man asked as a follow-up. “He doesn’t know much. One thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him,” Mr. Clinton replied.
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IMO this is not the same as saying the "angry white man" was responsible for the election result. As well, I don't find it to be either "apolitically correct" or "politically incorrect."

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What Bill Clinton said publically, without evidence, was very offensive to me.

When a person makes a casual comment in a bookstore, he/she is not required to provide evidence although I'm sure Mr. Clinton could in this case if he cared to.
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Jim Miller
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This is still none of your business, America hater. Mind your own business, coward.
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colo_crawdad
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Ima,

I am glad that you bring some common sense and factual reality to this discussion.
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Neutral
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America haters love other America haters don't they Colo.
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Jim Miller
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Seems so, eh?
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Neutral
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I have absolutely no doubt Colo does not love America in her current state. Bernie Sanders would be his ideal President.
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Jim Miller
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The way the liberals are acting over this election I am not sure any of them do. They are acting very un-American in my opinion.
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Neutral
Dec 25 2016, 04:58 AM
America haters love other America haters don't they Colo.
I do not know. Do you love America haters other than yourself, Neutral?

It does appear that you hate to see common sense and factual posts made on this forum.
Edited by colo_crawdad, Dec 25 2016, 05:39 AM.
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Berton
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We have seen an example of who the angry white men are. They verbally assaulted Trumps daughter and grand children.

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colo_crawdad
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Suppose the KKK and other white supremacy groups that openly supported Donald (I am not Putin’s puppet) Trump' campaign consist primarily of angry white men?
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