Rich Lowry seemed to have used the racial slur in place of the term "migrants" while speaking to Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show. He's now claimed he didn't.

My thoughts: this was not an accident. This was testing the waters.

I wonder what the person who absolutely insisted to me yesterday that this wasn’t about black people in general would have to say about this…

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I appreciate. You trying to chase what’s real instead of going straight to pitchforks. I think that’s important, and it’s a problem because people are so outrage-addicted.

        In this case, though., I don’t agree at all. It absolutely sounds and looks like an N to me. And I think it’s plausible that it really was either a slipup or a really intentionally bad dogwhistle. It’s EXTREMELY plausible to me that he is very racist.

        But I’m not an expert.

        • Organichedgehog@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Maybe he’s racist, I have no idea. But wouldn’t the far simpler route for a racist be to just keep engaging with the bullshit story and encourage the despicable racist acts that are already happening? A dog whistle by definition is subtle, coded. This isn’t that.