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Posted Sunday, August 03, 2008 5:22 AM

Oliver Willis: Joe Lieberman: “John McCain Doesn’t Have A Racist Bone In His Body”, Well… Except When Calling Vietnamese “Gook[s]“

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Flashback, John McCain of 2000 : On his campaign bus recently, Sen. John McCain told reporters, I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live. Although McCain said he was referring only to his prison guards, there are many reasons why his use of the word is offensive and alarming. It is offensive because by using a racial epithet that has historically been used to demean all Asians to describe his captors, McCain failed to make a distinction between his torturers and an entire racial group. It is alarming because a major candidate for president publicly used a racial epithet, refused to apologize for doing so and remains a legitimate contender...
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