bill clinton said

[norseamd]

You just look at how many of our collective bigotries we have overcome in America in the last 100 years. We are less racist than we used to be, we are less sexist than we used to be. We are less religiously bigoted than we used to be. We are less homophobic than we used to be. We have one remaining bigotry: We don’t want to be around anybody that disagrees with us.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2015/11/24/bill-clinton-talks-ideological-intolerance/

 

[blackangst1]

Very true. Our intolerance borders on absurdity.

Reminds me of this meme:

 

[Moonbeam]

Really, by that potato? What offends me is when the potato bin if full of potatoes that have that shape. I like them to be completely ovoid and not indented on one side and I get really pissed off when I can't find a couple of that shape. I notice, that whoever picked that one to photograph at least got one that doesn't have any visible broken skin or ugly black spots. I hate also having to dig down to the while meat with my fingernail when I wash them. And don't get me started on conservative brain defectives.

 

[1prophet]

Why there are no more Sister Souljah moments

In truth, demonstrations of political courage are not only a rara avis in both parties but today are practically extinct: In an era of Twitter outrage mobs that jump on every unorthodox statement by a politician as if it were betrayal, the cost of political courage is higher than ever.
Certainly most, if not all, of the GOP candidates privately think the Confederate flag should be pulled down from the state Capitol and put in a museum. So why, oh why, pundits ask, wouldn’t these guys (and one woman) just come out and say that without waiting for Haley (a possible GOP veep candidate) to display some political courage on her own? Why couldn’t they do what Bill Clinton did to great effect in 1992?



A brief tutorial for those too young to remember the days when Sam Malone and Murphy Brown ruled the airwaves: Sister Souljah was actually a relevant performer, and Clinton was an obscure Arkansas governor who played the saxophone and talked about the kind of underwear he favored. Back in the spring of that year, Clinton went before Jesse Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition” and criticized the group for giving a forum to the singer, whose lyrics included such thoughtful, healing lines as, “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?”



Clinton’s seeming denunciation of his African-American allies shocked reporters. Which of course was what the campaign was going for. Writing in the Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page labeled it “the most important moment of the 1992 race.” And ever since then, the Sister Souljah moment became synonymous in campaign lore with a candidate showing political courage and independence.



This is the kind of thing so many people implored the Republicans to do over the past week. To stand up, denounce many South Carolinian voters, and demand that the flag be taken down.
Would that have been politically courageous? Probably. Which is why almost nobody did it.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/st...e-sister-souljah-moments-119386#ixzz3sWjZfjjf
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[Fanatical Meat]

And Mama said....

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vimZj8HW0Kg

 

[alcoholbob]

Poor Bill Clinton has joined the list of Moonbeam's CBD list.

 

[Moonbeam]

Poor Bill Clinton has joined the list of Moonbeam's CBD list.

I love CBDs. That's why I devote so much time explaining yourselves to yourselves, so that like me, you can free yourselves from your CBD. I'm just a CBD in a 12 step program trying to love himself by loving you other fools.

 

[norseamd]

Guess who said?

There is nothing in the US Constitution that protects you from being offended by the truth.

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/670718598348988416

 

[Ken g6]

What's a CBD? Other than a chemical in weed, that is?

 

[Double Trouble]

Bill is absolutely right. We've made great strides to reduce racism, sexism, bigotry and so forth, but now we're witnessing the rise of the militant intolerant.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." is out the window, replaced with "if you say things I disagree with or I find offensive in some way I'll try my best to make sure to shut you up".

 

[disappoint]

What's a CBD? Other than a chemical in weed, that is?

My guess is corticobasal degeneration or cognitive behavioral deficiency.