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[Ken]

Republicans seem to defend each other to the death, while dems don't mind throwing each other under the bus.

None of those things were over okay unless, of course, you were the one perpetuating them. 

If you could expand upon that statement a little more maybe that'd be helpful to me. Maybe "ok" means something different to us. Just given the Judy Garland example, are you saying that anyone in 1938 that saw her in "Everybody Sing" and didn't cringe at her in blackface should be judged a racist?

Well. To start, you started off by saying slavery was, "ok" and then equating it to blackface. If you can't see the issue with that comparison, i don't know where to start.

As Gerald stated, some things were "ok" by the standards of the time. We, as a culture, evolve and realize that shit was pretty fucked up. Blackface was used to perpetuate stereotypes, and, was used in american theaters to exclude blacks from performing. It was always shitty, it just took some people longer than others (i.e. the ones NOT being discriminated) to realize that. 

I used to drop terms like, "fag" and "retard" pretty freely. I realized over time those were both really shitty things to say and other words conveyed the sentiments i truly meant behind that much better.  If i ran for office, i would expect that to come up. I would also need to explain myself and hope people see that my overall "body of work" would prove I'm not a terrible person. The opportunity that Northam completely fucked up.