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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Dumb conspiracy theories?"

Um, puh-f*ckin-leeze.

Again, compare:

1.) Barack Obama, black guy, with a foreign sounding name, born in the US, with evidence that he was born in the US, and zero credible evidence he wasn't.  Per polling done a few years ago, fully 45% of Republicans believed he wasn't born in the US and thought his citizenship was a huge issue.

2.) Ted Cruz, white guy, with a foreign name (Cruz), NOT born in the US (born in Canada), authentic Canadian birth certificate produced, and yet virtually 0% of those exact same Republicans thought his citizenship was an issue.

Wanna explain that one to us?[/quote]

Obama and Cruz are both bi-racial.  And Cruz did face questions about his eligibility to run for President.  It came up during one of the GOP debates.  Cruz also had to sue to get onto the ballot in PA because a voter raised a question about whether he was a natural born citizen.

I have no idea why some conspiracy theories take off and others do not get very far in the public imagination.

As I understand it, the conspiracy theory about Obama was that his mother traveled outside the United States when she was pregnant with him and later forged his birth certificate to indicate he was born in the United States.  What does that have to do with race?

The ancestors of most black Americans were involuntarily brought to the United States centuries ago.  No one has questioned their citizenship since the 1860s.  Jesse Jackson, Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton, Herman Cain, and Dr. Ben Carson all ran for President without any issue about their eligibility to run.[/quote]

Hey, if this argument is what it takes for you to feel like your support for the birther movement didn't make you a racist, go on and be happy.

Pretty much everyone else who didn't support the birther movement believes it was racist, and there's actually a legitimate research study associating birther movement with racist attitudes. Feel free to cite your scientific study that counters it. 
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