Som1 – problematic, not necessarily scared or offended. You should find it problematic if anyone in a position of power cited the first amendment, and nothing more, when asked for his or opinion about something widely understood to be racist or anti-Semitic. This is the same guy who had a problem with the Obama administration’s avoidance of the phrase radical Islam. The issue is not whether racists and anti semites have a constitutional right to their views, but whether he has the ability to call it by what it is when asked for his views. He would not infringe anyone’s constitutional rights if he repeated the statement he made years ago, that the confederate flag should be relegated to museums. You have to ask yourself what holds him back.
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