08-10-2016, 06:06 PM
Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=swampy]
Hillary gets a pass on context?
lol!
Oh, you're serious, aren't you?
Here are two statements:
1) There was an assassination 48 years ago after a decisive victory in the Democratic primaries.
2) I wish one of you guys would shoot that bitch. I'll pay your legal expenses.
According to swamp-logic, the first statement uses the word assassination and is therefore, bad.
The second does not, so why are you getting into a bother?
I think this shows how disingenuous this false equivalence is - look what happens if I change Clinton's quote with just a little bit of change of wording:
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedywas assassinateddied in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out.
Notice that changing "was assassinated" to "died" did not change the import of her statement and it would have been just as true as what she did say. The point she was trying to make had nothing to do with assassination - it was about "shit happens" sometimes late in the primaries, like a leading candidate can die, so I'm staying in just in case. It was a lame argument and insensitive to invoke what happened to R. Kennedy but in substance it was not at all like the issue of Trump's statement.