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Well, there are lots of people who go break the ranks with their race, or cultural group. Those people are always embraced by haters to help show that they're not racist (sexist, homophobic, whatever). Somehow the argument that "I'm not against black people, just civil rights. See! There's a black person against civil rights," doesn't play in my book.

There are plenty of Jews who are anti-Zionist (I can think of one or two close friends on this board). They're entitled to their opinion, but as soon as they're embraced by Hamas, a red flag goes up.

Same goes for anti-feminists, like Phyllis Schlafly.

I'm not saying that Nephy was overtly trying to make Jesse Helms look like less of an azzhole, it's just that when I read it, that's the impression I got. The fact that she chose to post about a black man who worked for Helms in a thread about how Helms was a racist creep threw me off.

Helms was a creep.

Nothing more than that.