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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Rick Perry still can't use the word "racism" with regard to the Charleston murders:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/20/rick-perry-condemns-charleston-shooting-after-accident-remark

"I think we all come here today with heavy hearts for those individuals in Charleston – those Charleston Christians – who were gunned down in an absolute heinous hate crime inside of their place of worship.

"That deranged individual didn’t just take lives of black Americans – he gunned down nine children of God."

Perry continued: "There is something more basic to our humanity than the color of our skin, our ethnic heritage, our nationality. It’s that we’re all made in the image of a loving God. And we cannot let hatred and violence break the ties that bind us together."

As other poster have noted, Perry and those like him will concede that this is a "hate crime" because that leaves the door open for this being an anti-Christian attack. Perry clearly wants to stick to religion and stay away from race. He actually tries to downplay the fact that the victims were black.

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Hate crime is the factual term for what happened. Racism is the emotional term. Look at the way the word racist is bandied about here - it's often used as a bully club. You can prosecute a hate crime. You cannot prosecute 'racism'. [/quote]

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