Rich Lowry seemed to have used the racial slur in place of the term "migrants" while speaking to Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show. He's now claimed he didn't.

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…

    • ripcord@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You can also claim anything you want if you simply dismiss everything you don’t agree with as biased and worthless, which you appear to be doing here.

          • Organichedgehog@lemmy.world
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            3 months ago

            Sorry, thought you were the squid man. Regardless, on its face (without examining the video), his explanation makes more sense than a practiced media person blurting out the n-word on camera. Examining the audio, i’d say that I’m more confident that he’s making an “m” sound than an “n”. Examining the video, it appears his lips close when making the m/n sound, indicating an “m” over an “n”.

            That seems to be pretty objective. Most of the comments in this thread are getting high off of righteous indignation instead of thinking that, possibly, the conservative asshole didn’t blurt out the n-word on camera.

            • ripcord@lemmy.world
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              3 months ago

              I appreciate. You trying to chase what’s real instead of going straight to pitchforks. I think that’s important, and it’s a problem because people are so outrage-addicted.

              In this case, though., I don’t agree at all. It absolutely sounds and looks like an N to me. And I think it’s plausible that it really was either a slipup or a really intentionally bad dogwhistle. It’s EXTREMELY plausible to me that he is very racist.

              But I’m not an expert.

              • Organichedgehog@lemmy.world
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                3 months ago

                Maybe he’s racist, I have no idea. But wouldn’t the far simpler route for a racist be to just keep engaging with the bullshit story and encourage the despicable racist acts that are already happening? A dog whistle by definition is subtle, coded. This isn’t that.