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Disgusting that the vp aligns himself with people like this.
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Pence Headlines Event for PAC Whose Advocacy Director Says Its a Statistical Observation That Black People Are Lazy
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
May 01, 20185:36 PM
In January, a Trump administration official named Carl Higbie resigned after CNN reported on a rich tapestry of insulting statements hed made about various demographic groups during past radio appearances. Among them:
I just dont like Muslim people.
[Islam] is the ideology of a child molester.
75 percent of [veterans] with PTSD dont actually have it, and theyre either milking something for a little extra money in disability or theyre just, they honestly are just lying.
I dont like gay people.
Higbie landed on his feet as the advocacy director of a pro-Trump PAC called America First Policies. Mike Pence is appearing at a Phoenix event hosted by the group on Tuesday; Higbie, meanwhile, defended his comments about relative racial industriousness in a radio appearance last Friday. Because I made a statistical observation, they think thats racist, Higbie said to a Virginia-based host named John Fredericks, complaining that CNN had taken his remarks completely out of context. (Fredericks, incidentally, advertises himself as Americas Godzilla of the Truth.)
There you have it, thenCarl Higbie wasnt being racist, he was just outlining the results of statistical research! Editors at the Journal of Retroactively Justifying Random Racist Stuff You Said on the Radio by Pretending It Was Science no doubt eagerly await the submission of his finished paper.
procon
(15,805 posts)In many ways, Pense is even worse than Trump. Trump is indecisive and mercurial, and he makes uninformed, impulsive decisions that he will change on a whim. Pense is a man of convictions, deeply set in his beliefs, and determined to set the proper order for the white, theocratic authoritarian patriarchy he would like to create.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Thet spout an ocean of public platitudes, but very often their true attitude comes out - just like this Higgbie character, another true believer supporter of Comrade Casino, the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.