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There's criticism from the left about him opposing taxation on non-profits, per this opinion piece he wrote:

 

WWW.POST-GAZETTE.COM

No one has more reason to resent UPMC than I do, but that doesn't mean it should lose its tax exemption.

 

 

And he followed and allegedly pulled a gun on a black jogger a while back, suspecting him of doing crimes he didn't do. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So far, that's all I know of. 

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Interesting.

 

LBJ was a massive racist but also passed 2 Civil Rights Acts, the Voting Rights Act, and the Nationality Services Act, collectively some of the most culturally progressive legislation this country has seen in the last 100 years. He was a racist shitbag, but his own vanity caused him to want to be on the right side of history more than anything else. Sometimes that matters more, I guess.

 

Granted, he lived before social media, so clips of him calling black people "a bunch of lazy n*****s" to southern congressmen would have made him unelectable today, regardless of his actual policy decisions.

 

Not sure what I'm getting at here, exactly. There is something to the idea of what you do is more important than what you say.

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48 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

 

Granted, he lived before social media, so clips of him calling black people "a bunch of lazy n*****s" to southern congressmen would have made him unelectable today, regardless of his actual policy decisions.

 

Back then, that was centrist and if you're white, it may still be! 

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