re: #479 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

DF admits to “racist” — your word, not mine — sentiments, right now, so he is no victim here. Those kinds of views dehumanize me as a Black person, and are behind disproportionate sentencing and punishment laws, and always have been. I have no problem pointing that out, regardless of whose delicate sensibilities it might upset.

It’s not a question of sensibilities, it’s a question of non-sequitur. Simply stating the correct fact that racist sentiments (not “views”) are behind disproportionate sentencing and punishment laws does not make true the statement that DF was “espousing anti-black ideas” in the context of the debate that you were having here.

I also did not claim, say, or “imply” that each and every statement related to race is “anti-Black”, that is your own invention.

No, that is what you implied. Otherwise your statements would be completely unfounded. As it stands, they are merely false.

Anyone who weights a crime I commit as worse than someone else who commits the same crime is unqualified to comment on “lynch law”, be it in the 20s or any other decade. That view is what justified lynching in the first place, and is directly out of Birth of A Nation.

How did DF’s racist sentiments logically affect the veracity of the content of any of his statements on “lynch laws” in here?