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Ken White Feb 2, 2023

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- I'm not getting more liberal, but I am definitely getting more anti-"conservative," as that term is degraded and debased by the modern Right.

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/tyre-nichols-wasnt-murdered-because

Tyre Nichols wasn't murdered because of "affirmative action"

Rather than defend an indefensible murder, right-wing pundits have latched on to a narrative that's somehow even more appalling

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Alan Twigz

@Popehat holy wow, I hadn't heard the brain dead affirmative action take. Even if you accept the racist assumption that they wouldn't have been hired without "lowered standards," why were they on a plainclothes anti crime task force instead of writing traffic tickets? What previous test or standard would have prevented cops who decide to beat a guy to death?