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Someone on Twitter had criticised his use of the phrase "tarred with the same brush" when mentioning the racism allegations. He had reflected and agreed that it was inappropriate.
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Yet another spineless grovelling dimwit, he should have told the moron on twitter where to go.
Its a common phrase, even listed in collins dictionary.
e.g.
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/di...the-same-brush
I also found this (just to show the origin has nothing to do with race);
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The origin is the verb to tar, meaning to defile or dirty, known from the early years of the seventeenth century. The idiom appears in print first in 1818, in one of Sir Walter Scott’s novels, Rob Roy: “They are a’ tarr’d wi’ the same stick — rank Jacobites and Papists.” Our modern form appears in William Cobbett’s Rural Rides in 1823: “‘You are all tarred with the same brush’, said the sensible people of Maidstone.
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