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Conservative editor backtracks after seeming to use n word regarding Haitian migrants (www.advocate.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.

I wonder what the person who absolutely insisted to me yesterday that this wasn't about black people in general would have to say about this...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I don't sympathize with this dudes rhetoric at all, just adding that from his mouth movements he does seem to be making an "m" sound not an "n" sound with his mouth.

He's probably still really racist, but I've got racist family and if they ever decide to drop a "hard r" you can see it in their face. I do think it was a case of trying to say "immigrants", flubbing it, then just saying "migrants" because he realizes what it sounds like. Even the forced laughter afterwards has a sort of "oh shit that didn't sound good" vibe to it.

Again, not defending this guy. But we have to remember, all sides of politics can spin stuff to fit their agenda, so we have to be discreet in our decisions and judgements, that's how we stand apart from all the people just sucking down the news as gospel truth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"... calling in about Haitian [Full-ass-hard-R-N-words] I mean migrants." No you don't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wondered if this might turn out to be somebody reading something into something, but Nope, he said it clear as a bell. You don't accidentally say that unless you're thinking it. This is obviously a word this guy uses frequently, and he even seems proud of himself for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Really sounds like it starts with an N and not an M so I don’t buy the mispronunciation story.

Also there is the fact that neither immigrants nor migrants ends in ‘gger’

He prolly had a bet with a friend that he would slip in an N word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I saw the dumb defender say he was conflating immigrant and migrant but I replayed that part a dozen times. It really, really sounds like an 'N' as the first letter. It definitely was not him beginning to pronounce 'immgr'. You can plainly hear it.

But even if we gave him the benefit of the doubt, the fact that Megyn Kelly completely ignored it and the fact that he didn't apologize immediately and explain it says volumes about both of them. Why didn't Kelly even say anything? Maybe she's so used to hearing it in her circles, maybe even saying it, that it didn't even register as something unusual to her and she didn't notice it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It seems seems dubious to me too. But the 'gr' in migrants would sound roughly the same as 'gger.' The problem is... well. He seems to start it with an 'n' and then also mis-inflects the 'i'?

It would be like trying to say 'clickable' and instead saying 'slacker.'

Mad sus.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.

The staff at the National Review have always been neo-confederate trash and I have no trouble believing Lowry simply uses this word on such a routine basis that it slipped out during an interview with another arch-conservative media figure.

These folks are racists and it shouldn't be seen as surprising when they show all the symptoms of a bigoted mind.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Even if this was just an "innocent" slip up it's not like what he said wouldn't have been racist otherwise. The dude is defending the false claims about Haitian immigrants. It's still racist.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can a white guy slip up and use the n word? Not sure that's a slip up.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It never is. People don't "slip up" that way unless they use it all the time when in private.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Exactly.

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