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Re: Scalise Allegedly Spoke with White Supremacy Group
That's because you have the context of a WP group to focus "European American" as being similar to "African American", instead of "European American" being "Europe and America". It's easy to see the red flags in hindsight, not so easy to see them without that perspective.
I disagree. The "European American rights component" should have been a red flag to Scalise that the group was strange. Duke also founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People.
Speaking to a strange group (in this case, a white ethnocentric one) does not make him a racist- anymore than Obama befriending Nations of Islam types (black ethnocentrics) automatically makes him a racist.
That's because you have the context of a WP group to focus "European American" as being similar to "African American", instead of "European American" being "Europe and America". It's easy to see the red flags in hindsight, not so easy to see them without that perspective.