Josh Marshall: It's actually kind of brave of him going to a PBA and saying Irish and Italians suck. LOL!

[Dennis Donovan]

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Josh Marshall
It's actually kind of brave of him going to a PBA and saying Irish and Italians suck.

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Vance: Has anybody seen the movie "Gangs of New York?." That is what I'm talking about, with these ethnic enclaves in our country, it can lead to higher crime rates.

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[Dave Bowman]

1. Shooting himself in the foot again.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. After being endorsed by them - not too smart n/t

[returnee]

3. Would ya look at that!!!!

Vance is calling for more integration of our communities!!! Who woulda thunk it?

[Klarkashton]

4. The deal is that Vance is dull and boring on top

Of the fact he's a ideological piece of shit.

[hibbing]

5. Back the Blue!

Oh yeah, most of them, just not those ones, you know the ones that got assaulted by our biggest fans.

Forward!

[senseandsensibility]

6. What's a PBA?

Whatever it is, point taken. This dude couldn't appear normal if he tried.

[ExciteBike66]

8. It's on the wall behind him

Edit: oops, I'm wrong, it's police benevolent association

[hlthe2b]

9. Police Benevolent Association: the police union. NYC PBA is largest in the world with 24 K members...

and one hell of a lot of them are Irish... LOL

He's at the Milwaukee PBA---I'd bet a very diverse population--but probably has its share of those with German (Lutheran) heritage.

[PedroXimenez]

7. i remember the non-immigrant character being the bad guy

but it was a while ago...

[keithbvadu2]

11. Bill the butcher... He identified as a 'native'. A white male Protestant Christian.

Didn't like the Pope.

[Tansy_Gold]

10. The stupid, it burns

I hope he goes up in the flames of humiliation in November.

[DoBW]

12. the late great Bill the Butcher

along with Hannibal Lecter

[EYESORE 9001]

13. Ethnicity is not the root cause. Poverty is.

The ethnicity is irrelevant. He claims to know all about Appalachia, so he should recognize that as an ‘ethnic enclave’ as well. One could accidentally stumble upon illegal activities of various types and get fed to the hogs by sunrise. Root cause, again, is poverty. People at the bottom of whatever ‘hierarchy of needs’ pyramid you cite are trying to meet basic survival needs, and if that means turning to crime, then people will do what’s necessary to survive. Where shadypants only saw violent ethnic gangs, he must have missed depictions of abject poverty, hopelessness, and desperation.