Jim Acosta Condemns Trump for Saying What Jim Acosta Said

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  1. notme

    notme Well-Known Member

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    Um nope. My source is mentioning numerous anekdotes. You said it was fake. But you're not able to prove it, so my source stands. I won't be responding to your lame opinion anymore. You need to walk the walk with sources.

    Not... "enough"...? You're making up an impossible criteria here.
    So lame.
     
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    My source is the CIA. You contesting the opinion of the CIA with your own is pathetic.
     
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  3. chris155au

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    Okay, so it is your opinion that because you think that it's true for drugs, this then means that it must be true for other crimes. It's foolish, but okay. I recommend sticking to FACTS! It's always a better way!

    Are you unable to copy and paste?

    Well you're the one who is making it exclusively about drugs. I'm not.

    Do you have evidence that white people are "not being investigated like black people?"

    Couldn't that be to do with prison behaviour? Good behaviour can result in being released earlier.

    Of course racism exists. It always will exist - but you need to stick to FACTS!

    Australian.
     
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    It's true for drugs. It's true for driving while black. It's true for getting sentenced.
    You're free to prove it's not true elsewhere when this is about the same group of racists.

    If you're to lame to click on a link and read what you can,.. than you clearly have no interest.

    so what.

    driving while black is prove of exactly that.

    You think that researchers didn't look at that?

    I proved the police department in the US and the justice department is racist, and that goes beyond some bad apples.
     
  5. chris155au

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    It's not up to me to prove that it is NOT true! It's up to you to prove that it IS true as you made the claim! But you won't be able to of course. You're clearly not interested in FACTS.

    LOL. You have got it all wrong! Earlier, I said this in response to your link:
    I fail to see how you could have read that and thought that I am able to read the article. I CAN'T!

    A traffic stop is an investigation?

    What study are you referring to?

    How did you PROVE it exactly? You mean those two links from earlier?
     
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    You will never get me to agree that something is not inappropriate or racist simply because you believe it is "based in fact."

    The nickname of the virus is Covid-19 or the Coronavirus and it is inappropriate to call it the Chinese virus.
     
  7. Steve N

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    And that's everyone's point, it wasn't racist originally. How does a word that everyone used become racist after it's renamed? Does that mean all the lefties who used the word are racists?
     
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    The reference is the timing, its obvious. Most reasonable people see it.

    Nope, its not racist at all. It’s logical, and about probability manipulation. You simply think its racist because everything is racist to you.

    Yep it was pretty horrible for the speaker of the house to help spread the virus while completely failing at fighting racism, all weeks after Trumps travel ban. Pretty horrible of her.
     
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    Yet they are still anecdotes and does not in any way shape or form prove the point you or the source was trying to make. Your source is self defeating. You should start providing sources that prove the point that you are trying to make. I dont care if you respond anymore, the truth hurts and some people have to run from it. If that’s you, then so be it.

    My criteria is simple. Provide a source that proves the narrative you are portraying. You have failed to do that.
     
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    It is not at all inappropriate to call it the Chinese virus, or anything similar. It’s simply true.
     
  11. Steve N

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    Using the same standards the left wants to use on Americans, I think China and the Chinese people need to pay reparations to all countries and people because of their Chinavirus.

    I believe the left contends that even if you weren't alive at the time or impacted you would still get reparations. And even if you didn't contribute to the problem, if you're part of a certain group due to nothing more than birth considerations, you still have to pay.

    When do I get me check?
     
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    Like it or not, word meanings evolve over time. And words matter.

    My grandmother called black people "Negros", which was perfectly acceptable at the time. Now it no longer is.

    You have been shown numerous times in this thread by me, and by others, how virologists and epidemiologists now name new diseases.

    You are consciously choosing to ignore that reality and continue to parrot Trump in this regard.

    You have pointed out, and I have agreed, that everyone knows exactly where this virus came from.

    If this is true, and it is, why would you need to repeat that fact every time you spoke of it?

    If you drive a Corvette, do you call it an American Corvette? No, because everyone knows that a Corvette is an American car.
     
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    Pretty astounding the hypocrisy of the left. It only became racist when Trump said china virus, ridiculous. They create any narrative they can to support that now, such as the idea it somehow inspires violence against Asians. Of course though, they cant maintain the logical consistency to both acknowledge and defend Trump supporters from the fake narratives that have increased levels of violence towards them.

    So calling the virus the china virus, or wuhan virus, despite being true is racist and inspiring violence. But calling Trump supporters Nazi’s, despite having ZERO truth to it, is somehow acceptable despite the violence that FAKE narratives like that have caused.

    Smh, cant make this stuff up.
     
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  14. Steve N

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    The words Ebola, Zika, Hong Kong, West Nile, MERS, etc didn't evolve and probably never will, but you're trying to convince me that in a few months the Chinavirus moniker evolved? What I'm noticing is that most of the words that evolved did so to appease the left all while the left invented new words to hurl at the right.

    China did this to themselves. They lied, corrupted WHO, which gave out bogus info that has now resulted in the loss of thousands of lives, and then tried to blame our American military. Was blaming the American military racist?

    And I'm really tiring of all the claims of racism when China is not a race and they fully deserve to have their name dragged through the mud. Why is everything always racist? No blacks were nominated for an Oscar? Racist. The NE Patriots have the most white people in the NFL??? Racist. Blacks can't do math?? Racist. Blacks are arrested for committing the most murders by percentage??? Racist. If you ask me, playing the race card is about as racist as it gets because its always being used against white people.

    Whenever I hear someone use the word racist I immediately think they have no other rational or factual argument.

    And by the way, there's only one Corvette. If both America and China made Vettes we'd probably have words identifying the country or origin. Unfortunately for China, viruses have occurred worldwide and the Chinavirus identifies this specific virus as being their baby just like the Hong Kong virus belongs to them.
     
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  15. Steve N

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    Now I know where all the leftists are getting the 'everything about the chinavirus is racist' BS. The universities and colleges. Look at this junk, the people who hate Trump, his supporters and most likely America are asking their students to sign a Hate Has No Home Here pledge and in their defense of the Chinese communists who gave us the virus and lied about it.

    Folks, remember the year 2020 as it will be the first and last time the left defended Asians.

    'No Other Names Are Acceptable': MSU Tells Students How They Are to Refer to Wuhan Coronavirus
    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahb...u-acceptable-coronavirus-terminology-n2566471
     
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    Stay in your bubble then, Mr. Freedom Fries.

    The correct name and taxonomy of this virus will forever remain COVID-19, a coronavirus first observed in humans in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in late 2019.

    Even you exalted leader has backed away from miscategorizing it.

    Didn't you get that memo? LOL.

    Seems Trump remembered that Asians vote.

    https://www.kusi.com/i/the-latest-trump-stops-calling-covid-19-the-chinese-virus/
     
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    I'll take you a little more seriously when you start calling the other virus names racist instead of just this one. And the next time you hear the phrases white supremacy and white privilege I expect you to take that racism just as seriously as you do this mess.
     
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    Like it or not, there is nothing wrong with calling it the Chinese virus, as it is correct.

    Regardless of how much you like or hate it, that will never go away. Nicknaming has always and will always be a thing.
     
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    I'm still wondering why Lyme disease is fine but Wuhan or China is not.
     
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    Without meaning offense, you seem a little slow on the uptake.

    The other virus names were racist, which is why, starting in 2015, we quit naming them for their geographic etiology.

    This has been explained to you repeatedly. And you would know this if you had bothered to read the links provided that outline when, why, and how viruses are named going forward from 2015.
     
  21. Steve N

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    yet people still say ebola, zika, west nile, etc.

    Do you know that people who said words 60 years ago which aren't acceptable today are being shunned and having their statues torn down? Kate Smith was one of them. That was decades ago. Now a mere month or two ago people were saying Chinavirus and Wuhan virus, and it seems to me that it those words are that bad the people who said them, people like Acosta, would be shunned and run out of town. That he's not and that people aren't referring to the Chinavirus as the C word only means it's another fake outrage from the left or a desperate need to protect communist China, If I started to blame Xi and called him names, would I be a racist/
     
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    By the left's reasoning, Lou Gehrig's family has a reason to be upset.
     
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    Acosta called it that before it was officially named.

    Trump started to call it that after it was officially named, and after he had repeatedly called it by it's correct name.

    Now he's had to walk that back and no longer calls it that.

    How it is possible that you cannot see the difference?
     
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    So what? Racism is still racism years after the fact, just ask Kate Smith's family.

    I am completely astounded at the double standards, hyocrisy and blind eyes have towards racism when they're the ones doing it or want to selectively whine about it.
     
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    If Acosta had continued to call it that after it had been officially named, I would call him out to.

    The fact remains that Trump was the only one who began calling it that after it had been officially named.
     

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