You know this guy is a real blast at birthday parties and other special events.
Look at how he manipulated quite honestly a far more interesting tweet to make a lame-ass dig at Trump and his SCOTUS nominee:
You can’t cheer Trump’s judicial nominations without owning his bigotry. https://t.co/2pV8CthDDH
— Matthew Segal (@segalmr) July 9, 2018
Matthew Segal is a legal director for the ACLU.
And he doesn’t seem to understand that his own tweet is pretty damn bigoted.
Does that mean the ACLU owns his bigotry? Asking for a friend.
This is possibly the most ridiculous statement I’ve seen on this subject from someone who claims to have a belief in civil rights. Now do LBJ…
— David Spence (@SpenceTaxGeek) July 9, 2018
Now now, he’s busy virtue signaling over Trump.
Don’t bug him with reality and facts.
It's not ridiculous to ask people to reckon with the role of bigotry in Trump's nominations. If all hires at your office were made by a bigot, would you find that process acceptable so long as you liked the hires?
— Matthew Segal (@segalmr) July 9, 2018
So this guy is saying anyone who supports Trump at all is a bigot … yeah?
Does he realize that sort of makes HIM a bigot?
Asking for a friend.
Have you “reckoned with the role of bigotry” in the LBJ administration? I would bet you liked the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and laud that Act without regard to the impurity of its advocate—and you should. Policy often takes priority over person.
— David Spence (@SpenceTaxGeek) July 9, 2018
That. ^
I agree that a president's decision to champion landmark civil rights legislation can partly mitigate fears that bigotry is influencing his policy & nominations. Did Trump do that and I missed it somehow?
Have a good evening.
— Matthew Segal (@segalmr) July 9, 2018
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Look how quickly he runs away when presented with a rational debate and facts.
Typical.
Do you see how your position has softened from ‘cant’t cheer judicial nominees w/out owning [whatever that means] his bigotry’ to now saying something a president does can mitigate ones otherwise reticent feelings toward him?
— David Spence (@SpenceTaxGeek) July 9, 2018
We’re going to guess he did not see that.
https://twitter.com/EF517_V3/status/1016312302361071617
Heh.
You can't admire FDR's handling of the Depression and WWII without owning his internment of American citizens based solely on race. You can't rhapsodize about Woodrow Wilson's 14 pts & the League of Nations without owning HIS bigotry & suppression of dissent. This is FUN!
— John Sheridan (@JohnSheridan12) July 9, 2018
Right?!
Hell we're already considered bigots, Nazis, racist, homophobes, xenophobes, sexist, etc… No matter what we do! We're not going to be intimidated by the lies and tactics!
— JOOKIE (@JOOKIEJOON) July 9, 2018
Bigot and Nazi are the new ‘racist’, and sadly people like Matthew are taking away any and all real meaning behind the words.
It sounds like you're saying that anyone Trump recommends for any position must be a bigot, or he wouldn't have recommended them. Regardless of their own accomplishments and history.
So he could prove you a bigot by saying something positive about you, right?
— Louis LeBlanc (@louleblanc) July 9, 2018
Right.
Nope. Trump has to own his own idiocy — just like you must own yours. I can celebrate what has gone well without being held responsible for his mistakes. That is called agency. And, guess what? Did the same for Obama (there was less t celebrate), and I voted for NEITHER of them.
— Lisa Stevens (@MamaSayso) July 9, 2018
You tell him!
Fact check: false. Try again.
— Joe Six Pack (@JShep33) July 9, 2018
And curtain.
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