Reply #98: Somebody on another thread mentioned Dean's stupid comment about Confederate flag wavers. [View All]

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I remember how appalled I was when Dean said that, and I said so here, too.

Imagine if Howard Dean had asked a white supremacist to emcee one of his campaign events and allowed the white supremacist to discuss his views in the middle of the event. Imagine if Dean had refused to drop the white supremacist from the event, but offered to allow a black preacher to make a short prayer at the very beginning of the event, before most of the audience had arrived, as a way of "engaging the white supremacists."

Imagine if the entire event was pretty much a celebration of how the audience's religion requires them to be white supremacists, and anyone who protested this was called a "hater" and told that they were obviously unwilling to "engage in conversation" with "the other point of view."

Somehow I doubt that there would have been much controversy on DU about the appropriate response to that. 100% of DUers would have been revolted.