The GOP is having it both ways on their racism
by digby
This is on the Illinois Republican County Chairmen’s Association’s Facebook site: pic.twitter.com/0qzKsiRzzq— Rick Pearson (@rap30) July 21, 2019
Mark Shaw, the Lake County GOP chairman who heads the state county chairmen’s group, said the posting was “not authorized by me” and said he was “sorry if anyone who saw the image was offended by the contents.”
Shaw said the post had been deleted, and he called it an “unfortunate distraction” from the ideological issues involving the four progressive congresswoman.
On Facebook, Shaw called the posting “unauthorized.” Then he explained how the group has a “multistage, approval process for all social media posts on any of its social media properties.” That process, he said, is being “reevaluated.”
Right. It’s all about “ideological differences.”
But they got their racist bullshit out there didn’t they?
This is the “oooops” strategy. “Ooops, did we put out racist images and memes? Oh heck. We sure hope nobody was offended. We were just trying to illustrate our ideological differences ….”
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