[throwaway2016b]

Meanwhile there is a picture of Hillary embracing a KKK member that the corrupt media refuses to mention. The kingmakers don't give a good goddamn about racism, except as a convenient narrative for purges. The 21st century equivalent of accusations of communism.

https://i.sli.mg/FdqTAx.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd

“It is almost impossible to imagine the United States Senate without Robert Byrd. He was not just its longest serving member, he was its heart and soul. From my first day in the Senate, I sought out his guidance, and he was always generous with his time and his wisdom.” -- Hillary Clinton

[dang]

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12536456 and marked it off-topic.

[zimzam]

By the end of his career Robert Byrd was a repentant, former KKK member.

Trump is being embraced by current, active KKK members.

It is obtuse to pretend there's no difference between the two.

From your own Wikipedia link: "In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook — seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions."[23] Byrd also said, in 2005, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."[13]"

[hueving]

>Trump is being embraced by current, active KKK members.

Being embraced by and embracing are very different things. There are statistically going to be child rapists that support both candidates, does that make them both child rapists?

[saboot]

Way to give the half 'truth' there, it's a supreme irony that DT supporters are ready to call anyone a shill but are just fine parading lies because they feel repeating it often enough makes it true.

> Meanwhile there is a picture of Hillary embracing a KKK member

actually

> Meanwhile there is a picture of Hillary embracing a FORMER KKK member who said that joining the KKK was "the greatest mistake I ever made."

[blackflame7000]

Well as long as the former racist said hes no longer racist then case closed. I couldn't fathom why a KKK member would want to pretend hes not racist.

[saboot]

Man go read Byrd's wiki page or really any piece of information before presenting a faux defense

"Senator Byrd came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda, doing well on the NAACP Annual Civil Rights Report Card. He stood with us on many issues of crucial importance to our members from the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, the historic health care legislation of 2010 and his support for the Hate Crimes Prevention legislation," stated Hilary O. Shelton, Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau

[learc83]

You know who else eulogized Robert Byrd? The NAACP.

He was a repentant former racist who spent the later years of his life apologizing for his past.

[throwaway2016b]

You say that as if the media sycophants would not be trumpeting such a connection 24/7 if Trump had one. That is my point. It does not matter if he claimed to have repented (you know, after filibustering the Civil Rights act of 1964), they would have spun it against him anyway. The fact that they haven't even mentioned Byrd is proof of bias.

edit for dang: Thank you for Correcting The Record. If you're going mark accusations of racism as off-topic, you should have done so a little further up-thread.

I'll give you props for not leaving an article like this flagged and dead for once. Too big to sweep under the rug?

>In case it's a concern: we don't care what your specific ideology is.

"We just cannot allow Donald Trump to become president. It would destroy this country." -- Paul Graham.

"I am contributing to both vote.org and voteplz.org, and probably two other get-out-the-vote non-profits. There are different approaches to this problem and I'm not sure which will work best, but unlike many for-profit startups it's non zero-sum–we have a long, long way to go to 100% voter turnout, and all the organizations working on this share the same fundamental goal. This feels like the most important US presidential election I've ever witnessed, and I want to do whatever I can to make sure we're all involved. -- Sam Altman

[dang]

Please stop using HN for political rants—it's not the kind of discussion we want here.

I know this is a particularly politicized thread, but your many comments still stand out as particularly ideologically driven.

(In case it's a concern: we don't care what your specific ideology is. We just care about not pushing HN off a cliff.)