(October 10, 2017 at 6:35 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(October 10, 2017 at 6:23 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The falsehood is not in his reporting the events, but in the character and significance he assigns to those events as "representative" in order to impugn the cast majority of folks who, while detesting the injustices in our country, do not engage in such triviality.
In assigning that contextual meanin, he is attempting to trivialize all such complaints, no matter their context.
I think I'll let Neo field this one. Does he in fact believe that black people have no legitimate complaints?
He's already fielded it....................
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