Sean Spicer is the best Press Secretary in history. PERIOD.

I suppose it’s more about how you define “race” (which most people just use as shorthand for “skin-colour”)… but the term Caucasian to describe white europeans and their descendants is basically nonsense that grew out of theories of race that are not really supported by genetics.

Pffffft, whatever. Everything I need to know about race I learned in Genesis anyhow.

The standard “race” designations like caucasian are relicts of early 18th century Eurocentric ethnology. They have very little scientific value.

Well I am not going to make you use it, but it’s snarky to post one sentence saying it’s not a race when it’s still used in several surveys, it’s defined in more than one resource as a racial classification, and by resource I mean actual dictionaries and government sites, AND the entire point is the Middle East group falls into the same group as whites, but I suspect the Trump supporters don’t actually want to give them guns anymore than they want to give other minorities the same rights they have.

Well in as much as all humans fall into the same group, I suppose.

In North America, Caucasian just means “white + european descent”. It’s pretty dumb.

That’s the definition for people who want it to be the definition. The rest of us use a more reliable source which isn’t made up in our head… like the US Census:

The U.S. Census Bureau must adhere to the 1997 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards on race and ethnicity which guide the Census Bureau in classifying written responses to the race question:

White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

Black or African American – A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

American Indian or Alaska Native – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.

Asian – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

for 2012 they added AIAN and NHPI… but largely the same.

*original intent

True, and there’s little that the original author can do about those things, but at least that journalist’s hands remain clean. If the MSM had kept their Clinton headlines focused on the true content instead of on clickbait-y “shadows”, they wouldn’t be reaping the Bannon whirlwind now. It’s a lot harder to draw support from a NYT article if all anyone has to do is read the actual headline to know I’m making shit up. Not impossible, just harder.

A cry for help, or a failure to read? You decide.

Maybe humoring the Onion?

Looks like an ill-conceived attempt at humor to me.

I think he’s merely a moron. Runs in the administration.

https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/826151776973881345

Counterpoint:

Toddler ban, obviously. We need to keep Americans safe.

Never gonna happen; the diaper lobby wouldn’t stand for it.

After the crippling blow dealt them by the British government ban of fetish porn, they’ve really been hard up for alternative sales targets.

Most crimes are committed by young people. Just saying.

I use to think that Robert Gibbs was the worst press secretary ever. But Sean has surpassed him in every way.
Watching this guy fumble with papers memo for 10 minutes when he could have just put up some powerpoint slides to make his point is just painful. Forget the crazy stuff that his boss is asking him to say, he is just objectively a horrible communicator.

Spicer just used the massacre of Muslims (some of those attacked were refugees) by a white nationalist and Trump advocate, as a justification for their imigration orders.

Did anyone in the room call out his bs and point out it was a French Canadian that did the killing?