O'Rourke described a country founded on white supremacy, and said that the country was projecting its racism onto would-be migrants being detained on the border.
The Democratic presidential hopeful, who is trailing badly in the polls, recited a litany of claims — many of them debunked, such as the Charleston "very fine people" hoax — accusing President Donald Trump of fomenting racism in the country.
He also accused Trump, whom he likened to a fascist dictator, of "stochastic terrorism," alleging that Trump was making provocative statements to encourage individuals, indirectly, to launch white supremacist attacks like the recent mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
O'Rourke also called for a complete ban on so-called "assault weapons," and a national buyback of AR-15 rifles and other legal weapons currently owned by Americans.
During the question-and-answer session, a pro-life member of the audience asked O'Rourke about his support for third-trimester abortions, asking if human life had no worth one day before birth.
O'Rourke said that the decision to end a pregnancy remained that of the mother — to enthusiastic cheers from the audience.
The gathering was part of the college's "Bully Pulpit" series, a recurring, non-partisan political lecture event dating back to 2008. As the dean of the college reviewed a list of past speakers, one name drew applause: Barack Obama, who spoke at a lunchtime event in advance of the South Carolina primary in 2008, where he was endorsed by then-Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), who would go on to serve as Secretary of State during Obama's second term as president.
The "stage" was literally a small wooden shipping pallet, placed at the center of a coarse lawn in the middle of a small outdoor amphitheater between several university buildings. Roughly 300 people attended the event.
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Reader Comments
"a country founded on white supremacy" ...
This is episode from Empire Files with Abby Martin - “United States” to Imperial America: Our Hidden Empire" - [Link]
It provides an interesting recap on how the territories became states after a suitable period of whitening
Who wrote the Bill of Rights? The concepts behind that? Government from the bottom up, by the rights of the individual and only with their consent?
The right to stand up and make a complete ass of yourself and a group of MSM-programmed 'guilt hounds.'
Meanwhile in third world sh*tholes they still have tribal rule.
Pardon. I forgot to take my 'Anti-PC Pill today.
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And forget the "cultural bias" in the tests. Koko the gorilla consistently tested higher than blacks in spite of a totally alien "culture".
Hanabiko "Koko" (July 4, 1971 - June 19, 2018) is a female western lowland gorilla who is known for having learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of American Sign Language. She has learned to use over 1,000 signs and understands approximately 2,000 spoken English words. Further, she understands these signs sufficiently well to adapt them or combine them to express new meanings that she wants to convey. Koko was tested on the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Ravens Progressive Matrices, Wechsler Preschool, Primary Scale of Intelligence, and several administrations of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and in spite of the human cultural bias of the tests her scores ranged from 85-95, which is a standard deviation higher than African Blacks score on the same tests. IQ 85 = Koko
IQ 85 = American Blacks (24% White admixture)
IQ 67 = African Blacks "From September 1972, when we administered the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, through May 1977, when I administered form B of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, she has scored consistently in the 70 to 90 range on different IQ scales. These scores reflect her mental age divided by her chronological age, the result of which is then multiplied by 100. Such scores in human infants would suggest the subject is slow, but not mentally retarded."
IQ correlates strongly to job performance, wealth, income, economic growth, livability, cooperation, life expectancy, and infant mortality.
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