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Originally Posted by baddog
Pleading guilty to perjury is not being convicted of being a racist.  |
Actually, on closer examination, what does this mean?
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On August 31, Judge Lance Ito ruled that evidence could be introduced to prove that Fuhrman had lied about use of the word "n****r", but that claims of violence and police misconduct were inadmissible.
On September 5, the defense produced multiple witnesses and audiotapes to establish that Fuhrman had used the word "n****r" within the last 10 years. The tape eventually resulted in a perjury charge against Fuhrman, to which he pleaded no contest.
-- SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fuhrman
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The record seems to suggest that the perjury Fuhrman was convicted of was for lying about using the "N" word - ie. he lied about "being a racist" - if one assumes, as I believe Ito did, that using that racial epithet is a racist act.
So he was a racist.
He lied about his acts of racism.
He was convicted, charged and fined about lying about his racist actions.
Does that not equate to "he was convicted of lying about being a racist", which made him a "convicted racist liar".
Am I missing something here?