A Rochester couple denied allegations of racism. Then came a confession

Explains why conservatives generally poll happier than liberals. They are skewed by some happily stupid people.

 

You got us. This definitely proves that white people are racist. Damn it. These guys let the cat out of the bag.

 

She's not racist but served fried chicken, installed Juneteenth signs and has a racist parody Twitter account.

Seriously, does she think people are going to believe that idiocy?

 

No one said "white people are racist". But this white couple certainly was.

 

What’s the point of posting this? That there is still racism in the world? Shocking…

Oh my god, there was a republican that was racist! Oh the humanity! Let’s tell everyone! Because there aren’t any racists who are dems…

Back to you whatever it is you are trying to point out lol.

 

It really does hammer home the point that a lot of very racist people do not consider themselves to be racist. The same way that Al Capone didn’t consider himself to be a bad person. People look past the worst in themselves.

 

Per Dale Carnegie:

If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive"
On May 7, 1931, the most sensational manhunt New York City had ever known had come to its climax. After weeks of search, "Two Gun" Crowley -- the killer, the gunman who didn't smoke or drink -- was at bay, trapped in his sweetheart's apartment on West End Avenue.

One hundred and fifty policemen and detectives laid siege to his top-floor hideaway. They chopped holes in the roof; they tried to smoke out Crowley, the "cop killer," with tear gas. Then they mounted their machine guns on surrounding buildings, and for more than an hour one of New York's fine residential areas reverberated with the crack of pistol fire and the rat-tat-tat of machine guns. Crowley, crouching behind an overstuffed chair, fired incessantly at the police. Ten thousand excited people watched the battle. Nothing like it had ever been seen before on the sidewalks of New York.

When Crowley was captured, Police Commissioner E. P. Mulrooney declared that the two-gun desperado was one of the most dangerous criminals ever encountered in the history of New York. "He will kill," said the Commissioner, "at the drop of a feather."

But how did "Two Gun" Crowley regard himself? We know, because while the police were firing into his apartment, he wrote a letter addressed "To whom it may concern." And, as he wrote, the blood flowing from his wounds left a crimson trail on the paper. In his letter Crowley said: "Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one -- one that would do nobody any harm."
A short time before this, Crowley had been having a necking party with his girl friend on a country road out on Long Island. Suddenly a policeman walked up to the car and said: "Let me see your license."

Without saying a word, Crowley drew his gun and cut the policeman down with a shower of lead. As the dying officer fell, Crowley leaped out of the car, grabbed the officer's revolver, and fired another bullet into the prostrate body. And that was the killer who said: "Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one -- one that would do nobody any harm."
Crowley was sentenced to the electric chair. When he arrived at the death house in Sing Sing, did he say, "This is what I get for killing people"? No, he said: "This is what I get for defending myself."

The point of the story is this: "Two Gun" Crowley didn't blame himself for anything.

Is that an unusual attitude among criminals? If you think so, listen to this:
"I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man."
That's Al Capone speaking. Yes, America's most notorious Public Enemy -- the most sinister gang leader who ever shot up Chicago. Capone didn't condemn himself. He actually regarded himself as a public benefactor -- an unappreciated and misunderstood public benefactor.

 

Right on cue, you're attacking the messenger but not the racists themselves. Nice job!

 

Yeah, it is the interesting social place that racists are in right now. They are tired of their beliefs being socially unacceptable, but they still are. So they are both trying to signal racism through this stuff in a way that gives them cover (e.g., "it was a joke!") while denying it in public. Very odd set of behaviors caused by the environment.

You see the playbook of equivocations to deal with that issue in that press conference. The claim that they aren't really racist and that society (in this case, Twitter) is to blame. That the real tragedy isn't that there was a racist in such a prominent position in society in the first place but that they were removed from that position for nothing other than being horribly racist (cue, complaints over "cancel culture"). That their racism was really a good thing because it provides an opportunity for healing. And that they know a black person, so they can't be racist (also, that black person wasn't invited to their party).

 

They certainly are bigots - probably racists.

Why in the hell would the Fire Chief require on duty firemen to attend the party?

Breaking news: a rich, white couple are (tone deaf) assholes. Video at 11

 

I love this guy-who-doesn't-think-he's-a-racist quote: 'The only thing I hate more than racism, is allegations of racism'. That's like saying 'The only thing I hate more than murder is accusing someone of murder'.

 

The anti-liberal aggression and the Trump cutout tell me what kind of low class people they are - and those type people usually are racist - but I don’t get racism being implied by the flag, the chicken and the cognac. Enlighten me.

 

Would Popeyes made it better?

 

Excellent point. It reminds me of the guy who was yelling (on the phone) about all the things his soon to be ex-wife and my spouse (Realtor) were doing wrong re: the sale of their home.

He stopped, mid-rant, and said: “you know I’m really not an asshole!” Rule #1 - if you have to explain you’re not an asshole - then, you’re definitely an asshole.

 

Yep, there are racists who will lie and say they aren’t racists. Thanks for the brilliant discovery. I mean, I would’ve gone thru my day thinking there weren’t racists who lie about themselves.

 

They are complete assholes and terrible people. Wow, so some people are racists, shocking.

 

Then what was the thread about? Libbies playing gotcha again is what I got.