Current Events > Trump's anti-discrimination official questioned whether n-word was racist.

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https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/article/Trump-anti-discrimination-official-apologizes-for-13273009.php

A senior Trump appointee at an agency responsible for enforcing laws against financial discrimination apologized on Monday for blog posts he wrote years ago questioning whether the n-word was racist and expressing skepticism about hate crimes, according to internal emails obtained by The Washington Post.

"Do I regret some of the things I wrote when I was 25 . . . Absolutely," Eric Blankenstein, a policy director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, wrote to colleagues. "The tone and framing of my statements reflected poor judgment."

The apology was in sharp contrast to a defiant statement issued by Blankenstein in response to The Post story last Wednesday about his blog postings. "The insight to be gained about how I perform my job today - by reading snippets of 14-year-old blog posts that have nothing to do with consumer protection law - is exactly zero," he wrote.

Blankenstein's turnabout came just hours after a senior civil servant in the bureau, Chris D'Angelo, wrote a bureau-wide note saying that many employees under Blankenstein felt "chilled" and "threatened by the language used" in the posts, and Blankenstein's "affirmation of those posts in his public statement, and his failure to denounce those statements or acknowledge their hurtful nature."

"Hate speech cannot be tolerated. The suggestions that a racial slur is intended to do anything other than demean and oppress on the basis of race undermines constructive discourse and is inconsistent with the consumer protection and fair lending mandates of the Bureau," D'Angelo said in the email.

The controversy follows revelations of Blankenstein's views on race-based laws and other matters in a political blog he co-authored with two other anonymous contributors.

In a 2004 post, Blankenstein wrote that a proposal at the University of Virginia to impose harsher academic penalties for acts of intolerance was "racial idiocy." He questioned how authorities could know the motivation of someone using a racial slur.

"Fine . . . let's say they called him ------," he wrote, spelling out the slur. " . . . would that make them racists, or just a-------?"

Blankenstein wrote that "hate-crime hoaxes are about three times as prevalent as actual hate crimes."

Two Senate Democrats have called for Blankenstein's dismissal and Blankenstein has faced a rebellion among his subordinates. Last Friday, while Blankenstein and other political appointees remained silent, a senior civil servant, Patrice Ficklin, sent an email to agency staff harshly criticizing Blankenstein's blog posts and dozens of others responded with emails in support of Ficklin.

he finds the best people.
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Um, TC? He wrote that post years ago, when he was young and dumb. Stop bringing up the past.
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I thought it depends if you have the privilege to say it or not
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dreamvoid posted...

"Fine . . . let's say they called him <n-word>," he wrote, spelling out the slur. " . . . would that make them racists, or just assholes?"

I could buy this line of reasoning if he didn't shove his foot so deep into his mouth that it got shit on it by saying this after:
dreamvoid posted...

Blankenstein wrote that "hate-crime hoaxes are about three times as prevalent as actual hate crimes."

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University of Virginia looking great these past couple of years along with the ps4

Edit: oh he has no ties to UVA disregard the above
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Yikes
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Bruh....what the fuck
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A word that only one race is "allowed" to use is definitely questionable, at least.

Questionmarktarius posted...

A word that only one race is "allowed" to use is definitely questionable, at least.

I know youre not dumb enough to actually think this.

Questionmarktarius posted...

A word that only one race is "allowed" to use is definitely questionable, at least.

If you ignore all context and history of the word, I can see how you would come to such a stupid conclusion
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FursonaNonGrata posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

A word that only one race is "allowed" to use is definitely questionable, at least.

I know youre not dumb enough to actually think this.

It's willfully dumb to refuse to think about that.

His name is Blankenstein? That sounds made up
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