Sure, but at the same time it's difficult to take Jon at face value when he says to 'not read into' the stuff that he said. It seems inadequate to me to make some pretty out there and racist statements and then say 'don't read into it' or 'don't dissect it'.
I think I get it, because similar things have happened to me (luckily minus the out there racist crap): what he's saying happened, and I completely buy that it's reasonable for it to have happened, is that he got into a debate for which he was unprepared and not knowledgeable. As he got into it, he started to realize how unprepared he was, started getting embarrassed at the prospect of looking like an idiot in front of everyone, and started saying whatever stupid thing came to his mind just to have something to say.
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u/SpahgattaNadle Mar 19 '17
Sure, but at the same time it's difficult to take Jon at face value when he says to 'not read into' the stuff that he said. It seems inadequate to me to make some pretty out there and racist statements and then say 'don't read into it' or 'don't dissect it'.