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Bobstandard

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5. Classic enabling

Reply to Karadeniz (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 09:33 PM

Jan 2021

“Sure, he called him a n****r, but that’s not what he meant that’s not what’s in his heart.”

That dog won’t hunt.

A guy who says “sieg heil” and uses the Nazi salutes knows exactly how incendiary it is and means it to be. He means to disrespect and intimidate the speaker in exactly the way a Nazi would.

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