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user-inactivated · 3683 days ago · link · · parent · post: Obama to "Call for End" to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection
Not to play the "that sounds racist" card, but... that sounds kinda racist. You really think that the President of the United States bases his policy decisions on some conditioned black fear of "rocking the boat"? I mean, you tried to temper it a bit with the whole "because they [black people] are forced to be on the defense," but still, that doesn't make it any less reductive. To boil the President's entire executive philosophy, which is actually pretty nuanced and informed by years of academic and professional experience, and tempered by the very real and well-chronicled limits of the office itself, and write it off as a fear of white backlash? That's, uh, racist.