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Originally Posted by joeydb
But when Byrd, one of their own legislators, has speeches about "white n-words", and writings I won't repeat mentioned here (fourth paragraph, inset):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicalju...lf?ft=1&f=1014
everythings just great. That is the definition of hypocrisy, his death notwithstanding.
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There are people who started out thinking the Conservatives view of the world is simply the obvious common-sense truth (especially if they grow up surrounded by Conservatives.) When they get their 1st so called "good" job, it's only then that they realize that the world is set up to favor a very few in society. Then, they simply work harder (because that's the Conservative cure-all fix for anything) only to realize that hard work is often overlooked by the deciders. It's at this point (regardless of their future) that many people realize the Conservative view is a highly-oversimplified load of crap. Luck, looks, people-pleasing skills, family contacts etc. all rival hard work's value in moving up in the world. No, they didn't know this before. They bought the Conservative load of crap. Now they know. They go on with their life, and regardless of how well they do, they know the Conservatives are dead wrong. That's one reason there are a lot of rich people who aren't Conservatives. I say this, because people can be wrong about something early on in their life, and realize it. I'm not saying it happened with Senator Byrd. I think it's a possibility. It's also a possibility that he never changed, and just hid his true racist feelings until he died. Lott certainly had very few signs of changing his racist views. Not so with Byrd. On something like this, people will often let the harmed group make the call. Meaning that Byrd would have probably been gone if Blacks thought he hadn't changed. It's a fair issue to bring up. I think people were aware of his past, and made a judgement about whether he had changed inside. It is a judgement call. People constantly make excuses for Muslim Scum, and the main excuse is that they are born into the bad environment. Unfortunately, the Muslims rarely see the light, and, hopefully, Byrd did.