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(86,005 posts) Sat Jul 20, 2013, 10:30 AM Jul 2013

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Blatently Obvious Why Racist Diatribe 'Got By' Salon's Editors

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TheObamaDiary.com ‏@TheObamaDiary 41m
Weird dream last night about @Salon publishing hideously offensive piece about the President that featured the 'N' word. Relieved to wake up

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"@Kyrondo: Salon trolls black people too much for it to be an accident. It's a business model."

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Blatently Obvious Why Racist Diatribe 'Got By' Salon's Editors (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2013 OP

so I guess diversity matters dsc Jul 2013 #1

Not one black person in that photo, not even a waiter/server...Meh with Salon...n/t monmouth3 Jul 2013 #2

Nope, not a black face at that dinner. Igel Jul 2013 #3

I guess, then, that makes it fine and dandy for them to promote the tripe bigtree Jul 2013 #4

the all-white editors should have censored the black man Enrique Jul 2013 #5

dsc

(52,166 posts)

1. so I guess diversity matters

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 10:43 AM

Jul 2013

unless that is, the diversity being lobbied for is that of having a LGBT person in the cabinet, then were told it doesn't.

monmouth3

(3,871 posts)

2. Not one black person in that photo, not even a waiter/server...Meh with Salon...n/t

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 01:51 PM

Jul 2013

Igel

(35,356 posts)

3. Nope, not a black face at that dinner.

Reply to monmouth3 (Reply #2)

Sat Jul 20, 2013, 02:38 PM

Jul 2013

But in the scuffle there's a black face ... the writer's.

http://www.richbenjamin.com/about.html

bigtree

(86,005 posts)

4. I guess, then, that makes it fine and dandy for them to promote the tripe

Reply to Igel (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 08:14 AM

Jul 2013

. . . just because there's a black face attached to it?

What about the tripe that comes from this black face?

Enrique

(27,461 posts)

5. the all-white editors should have censored the black man

Reply to Igel (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 08:24 AM

Jul 2013

maybe they should have, but I agree with your point.

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