Guns and race
From the Washington Post via Tom Tomorrow:
Yesterday's debate suddenly veered from guns to race when Cubin criticized a failed Democratic amendment that would have banned gun sales to drug addicts or people in drug treatment. After noting that her sons, ages 25 and 30, "are blond-haired and blue-eyed," she said: "One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean that if you go into a black community you can't sell any guns to any black person?"
Because, what, every black person uses drugs? I dunno, the complete idiocy of this comment makes it hard to get particularly offended by it. Cubin is obviously trying to follow the old Republican tactic of saying, "hey you Democrats are in reality racist, so all you neeeee-groes should vote GOP, dawg." And of course, in the process says the most blatantly racist thing imaginable.
From the Washington Post via Tom Tomorrow:
Yesterday's debate suddenly veered from guns to race when Cubin criticized a failed Democratic amendment that would have banned gun sales to drug addicts or people in drug treatment. After noting that her sons, ages 25 and 30, "are blond-haired and blue-eyed," she said: "One amendment today said we could not sell guns to anybody under drug treatment. So does that mean that if you go into a black community you can't sell any guns to any black person?"
Because, what, every black person uses drugs? I dunno, the complete idiocy of this comment makes it hard to get particularly offended by it. Cubin is obviously trying to follow the old Republican tactic of saying, "hey you Democrats are in reality racist, so all you neeeee-groes should vote GOP, dawg." And of course, in the process says the most blatantly racist thing imaginable.
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