Liberals have been quick nowadays to call Trump supporters and conservatives “racists” and “bigots,” but as soon as the flashlight of tolerance shines on their beloved queen, Hillary Clinton, they disperse like cockroaches.
It all began when Jeanette Jing, a Bernie Sanders supporter, posted a two page excerpt of Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book, It Takes a Village, in which then-First Lady of the United States wrote about the black prison laborers who served her and her family while living in the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion. Bill Clinton served as Arkansas’s governor from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992 before being elected president.
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Maher said “house n*” and Clinton used prison labor at her mansion for ten yrs bc it was “a longstanding tradition which kept down costs.” pic.twitter.com/EXPrVRjJ7G
— Jeanette?Corbynista (@JeanetteJing) June 6, 2017
“When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Clinton wrote. Currently, states like Arkansas, Texas, and Georgia don’t pay prison laborers.
It should be noted that now there are laws that properly define what modern slavery is by the State Department, and forced labor falls under that definition.
Of course, this doesn’t single out Hillary as being the only person to benefit from modern “slaves,” but her muted response to the practice is certainly telling of how racism works in America. She’d rather stick to the status quo than cause a ruckus and attempt to reform the system while her husband was in power.
But it’s okay, guys, she rationalized it.
In her book, Hillary described how most of the laborers were convicted murderers, but were a “preferred security risk” due to the fact that their crimes were usually over a disagreement with a person they knew. She even admitted she became friends with “a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences.”
Hillary recalled that they enforced strict rules and that anyone who broke them were sent back to prison. She later asserted that although the prisoners didn’t have any psychological qualifications to work in the Governor’s mansion, they didn’t have “inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning.” Instead, as Hillary puts it, they were “emotional illiterates.”
While Twitter widely condemned Clinton for her acceptance of the practice, her loyal followers and the media completely swept it under the rug during both times she ran for president. They were so in the tank for Clinton that her “Basket of Deplorables” comment was used as an indictment of Trump and his supporters and not used ironically to describe herself and her supporters.
Hooray for double standards!
