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deminks

(11,511 posts) Fri Mar 29, 2013, 06:08 AM Mar 2013

Rep. Young ‘Meant No Disrespect’ By ‘Wetbacks’ Remark [View all]

Non-apology apology typical from GOPers.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rep-young-meant-no-disrespect-by-wetbacks-remark

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) released a statement Thursday that said he "meant no disrespect" by referring to farm workers on his father's ranch as "wetbacks."

"During a sit down interview with Ketchikan Public Radio this week, I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in Central California," Young said, according to the Anchorage Daily News. "I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect."

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Rep. Young ‘Meant No Disrespect’ By ‘Wetbacks’ Remark [View all] deminks Mar 2013 OP

So, no apology necessary, I guess. Scuba Mar 2013 #1

He meant it just as he said it... pipoman Mar 2013 #2

There are places it wasn't a slur ag_dude Mar 2013 #3

It has ALWAYS been a slur CBGLuthier Mar 2013 #4

Where you live. ag_dude Mar 2013 #5

what region is that? datasuspect Mar 2013 #16

A region where there are lots of bigots? joeybee12 Mar 2013 #19

if you don't see the difference between an hispanic person using the word bowens43 Mar 2013 #8

Yeah, because the hispanics didn't hire them, right? It was only old redneck fucks. ag_dude Mar 2013 #10

It is a slur, has always been a slur rurallib Mar 2013 #11

sure has. I am a third generation anglo Texan and it was slur in the 50s CTyankee Mar 2013 #13

Yeah, and people would have argued pipoman Mar 2013 #9

bullshit datasuspect Mar 2013 #15

ROFLMAO!!! ' I meant no disrespect' bowens43 Mar 2013 #6

Don Young, dumber than a fencepost . . . . hatrack Mar 2013 #7

The point is Shankapotomus Mar 2013 #12

"a term that was commonly used" by racists and bigots. TeamPooka Mar 2013 #14

He should be highly pressured to resign his office immediately. David Zephyr Mar 2013 #17

I'm from California, and have lived in the Central Valley and near there all my life senseandsensibility Mar 2013 #18

Macaca ver 2013 lpbk2713 Mar 2013 #20

Except that he wasn't talking about his past state of mind aint_no_life_nowhere Mar 2013 #21

Later in the day at a "Choose Respect" rally in Juneau calling attention to domestic violence, Blue_In_AK Mar 2013 #22