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NAO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:45 PM
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Shooter Loughner's comments about "illiteracy" are thinly disguised racism
Shooter Loughner's comments about "illiteracy" explicitly racist of "English Only" type.

He stated that "if you know English grammar" (which he obviously did not) "you are literate", then went on to complain about how many "people" in District 8 are "illiterate".

He was just using a roundabout way of expressing his racist notions.

Nobody in the media seems to want to mention this.
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:49 PM
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1. He says he has never met a literate person too -I assume he knows whites
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NAO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:53 PM
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2. His emphasis on "ENGLISH" grammar
as the basis of literacy...not just grammar but ENGLISH grammar. I do believe that comment was directed at Tucson's large Spanish speaking population.
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 08:54 PM
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3. Like Timothy McVeigh, he was a hitman
all this stuff that he was mentally ill and a grammar freak!!
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:05 PM
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4. Yes. "Illiterate" in this case is a code-word for Hispanic.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:12 PM
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5. Giffords misspelled Loughner's name on the 2007 letter in his safe.
He could have had an obsession on this topic.
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