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Old 01-15-2014, 11:41 AM   #345
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Originally Posted by DownInFlames View Post
No kidding. If he's going to claim that it's ridiculous to assume he was literally calling Wenzel a mobster then he shouldn't make similar claims.
IANAL, but I think the intent there is to show that a reasonable person would not interpret Wenzel's comment about Nenshi representing "the dark side" as being racist in nature, but rather it was an allusion to a popular film series. Likewise, when Nenshi called Wenzel "the Godfather", he knew his comment would be interpreted as a reference to the film, not that Wenzel was literally the head of an organized crime family.
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