The Confessions of @dick_nixon
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> Nixon had the unique ability to make his enemies seem honorable, and we developed a keen sense of fraternity. Some of my best friends have hated Nixon all their lives. My mother hates Nixon, my son hates Nixon, I hate Nixon, and this hatred has brought us together.
> Nixon laughed when I told him this. "Don't worry," he said, "I, too, am a family man, and we feel the same way about you."
[0]: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a...
If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.
> President Clinton — young, smart, dynamic, the first president whom I understood politically (one of us, I thought) — demanded that Nixon be judged on nothing "less than his entire life and career."
Notice how this is neither a commendation nor an exoneration, attempted or otherwise. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was saying at any given moment, and what those words meant.
Also, this is golden:
> Remember ... the far-right kooks are just like the nuts on the left ... but they turn out to vote.
Thus we have the Southern Strategy, which leads directly into what the GOP is now.
What those words mean is...precisely nothing. So typical of Clinton. Personal opinion, but I think way less of him for saying it that way than a statement which is at least delicately tilted one way. The simple addition of a positive adjective like 'long' or 'great' might have done that.
You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana are Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.
To sum up, the only thing that could possibly be offensive is either 2) or the overall tone of the fragment. Hence my question: is it because it's plain false? Or is it because such language is always xenophobic, regardless of available evidence?
That's prejudicial thinking that can't possibly be correct. And when the statement is made by a person who is opposed to the issue (views it as "wrong"), reasonably is taken as offensive whether the listener is for, against, or indifferent to the issue.
This blog post gives even better insight:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/12/weak-men-are-superweapo...
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. "
That goes even when it's liberal bashing against a Republican.
The OP's post should be removed or HN's moderators are ignoring the rules in favor of the US Democratic party by showing favoritism and thus reflecting negatively on the YCombinator business.