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Arizona's public school chief admits he anonymously blogged racist rants
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Posted on 06/22/2014 6:40:20 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal this week admitted he was the author of a series of pseudonymous blog posts describing people who receive welfare as "lazy pigs." He also compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis, and said the organization is responsible for most abortions among Black people in America.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
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Headline is, of course, misleading. He posted conservative POV statements 'anonymously.'
1 posted on 06/22/2014 6:40:20 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

What is “racist” about these comments?
They are somewhat extreme, but a ref mild compared to many postings on websites. They don’t attack any particular race.


2 posted on 06/22/2014 6:45:11 AM PDT by docbnj
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To: TigerClaws
... posts describing people who receive welfare as "lazy pigs."

That's rude, but it's hardly racist.

He also compared Planned Parenthood to Nazis, ...

There are likenesses, such a devotion to killing innocent people.

... and said the organization is responsible for most abortions among Black people in America.

That's a fact statement which may or may not be accurate, but it's also not racist. It's possible that all the other abortion facilities combined kill more unborn black babies than Planned Parenthood does. I don't know.

3 posted on 06/22/2014 6:45:19 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Cynicism is a far greater spiritual danger than naivete." ~ Stephen Webb)
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I looked at the 100 or so words that he “anonymously” blogged and I’ll be damned if I can spot anything in them that has to do with race. There was nothing I could see that makes this hysterical indictment

I live in a county that is 96% white, 1% black and 2-3% other. The overwhelming majority of the lazy pigs on welfare here are white. I would hazard to guess that the 1% of blacks here don’t even make up their quota of the entitlement pie.

Finally, I would like to know how his anonymous postings actually got provably linked back to him.


4 posted on 06/22/2014 6:47:16 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: TigerClaws

He criticized 0bama. i.e. Must be a racist.


5 posted on 06/22/2014 6:47:57 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: TigerClaws

Oh my God. Read the comments page... wow some of these comments would make the morons on DU blush.


6 posted on 06/22/2014 7:24:13 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: Tax-chick
Now if he had said Lazy Blackskins, we know that would be racist.
7 posted on 06/22/2014 7:55:20 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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At least it would be race-specific. It’s actually “racist” for a reader of his comments to assume that criticism of welfare recipients is aimed at black people.


8 posted on 06/22/2014 8:00:07 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Cynicism is a far greater spiritual danger than naivete." ~ Stephen Webb)
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To: TigerClaws

How did this become public? By whom? And why?


9 posted on 06/22/2014 8:05:18 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: TigerClaws

Okay. I agree with everything he posted because it’s true. Now, where are the “rasis rants”? I’d like to scrutinize them.


10 posted on 06/22/2014 9:17:49 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Feed the wacko enrviromentalists to the starving polar bears.)
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I went to the link read his post and read NOTHING racist

The thing is I know what the accuser thinks is racist... the comment about welfare.....because leftist think welfare is code for minority.

11 posted on 06/22/2014 9:35:58 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: docbnj

I read the comments..some seem to be hung up on the Darwin comment...


12 posted on 06/22/2014 9:48:46 AM PDT by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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