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BeyondGeography

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4. What a pile

Mon Jan 4, 2016, 08:09 AM

Jan 2016

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...But I understand the fear of being silenced that’s prompting otherwise decent people to make common cause with racists and modern Know-Nothings, and I blame the American left for creating that fear.

Excuses, excuses. They're not "otherwise decent people." They're the same small-minded crowd of white people the Right has been egging on since Nixon. Back then, it was the media and the "know-it-all elitists" who "created" them.

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