Comments on: Race is everything, saith the left

By: Daniel in Brookline

Daniel in Brookline — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:36:44 +0000

Tom:

Yup, neo, to the left the only three issues are race, race, and race. I used to be able to throw sex/gender into the equation but their tolerance of radical Islam means that even women’s rights have been thrown under the bus.

I’d have to disagree. I don’t think that the reduced emphasis on women’s rights has anything to do with tolerance for radical Islam; rather, I think it’s because (a) women’s rights are much more mainstream in America today, and (b) we have a Democrat in the White House.

Remember, the angry feminists remained white-hot livid at GWB for eight years… after having given President Clinton a free pass. (In that case, it was Monica Lewinsky who was thrown under the bus. I wonder if she’s ever forgiven them.)

And by the way, don’t think for a moment that the radical Muslims are not racist. (Remember the Arabic-language cartoons of Condoleezza Rice?)

There may be good reasons for the West to treat radical Muslims as allies — although frankly, I can’t think of any — but shared values are not among them.

respectfully,
Daniel in Brookline

By: Bilwick

Bilwick — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:15:30 +0000

This just in: Inspired by “12alainu,” Obama’s advisors have announced that they have already decided on Obama’s re-election slogan:

“Go with the Negro!”

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:08:10 +0000

Just yesterday, I spotted this on the “front page” at Open Salon –
http://open.salon.com/blog/jimmy_zuma/2010/08/12/the_common_thread_is_white_supremacy
I was just appalled – the person who wrote this, actually believes it? What kind of fantasy construction has he built for himself?
I was born in 1954, I have never, ever seen a sign like this (outside of a history book) and only on one occasion did I ever personally witness a white person being deliberately ugly in public to a casually-met black person. Yes, I did lead a semi-sheltered life, growing up in California, and then 20 years in the military, (officially and in practice quite color-blind.)
I didn’t have the heart to go into the comments and try and reason with the author of that post. There are some very nice, and reasonable people posting at Open Salon, but some raving lunatics as well.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:42:35 +0000

I sense a sort of desperation in the race baiting industry. A realization that the sympathetic character of the oppressed black is the cash cow that is about to quit giving if times aren’t turned back. Hence the reference to negro.

By: James

James — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:45:51 +0000

Neo,

Notice that according to the commenter, when the American people have to decide between the philosophy of the Republicans (however vaguely defined), and the philosophy of the Democrats, the American people do not decide based on rational belief and experience.

Rather, according to the commenter, the American people just choose ‘who’ to believe. They are like little sheep who decide on their leader, but can’t decide on ideas.

Of course, if the commenter accepted that the American people decided based on ideas, not by choosing who to believe, then two results would follow:

1) Race doesn’t matter, since any idea can be expressed by any race.

2) The commenter would have to defend the actual ideas, which would require thought.

This commenter is probably not professional. So it might be a little unfair to pick on him. Would you like to defend every comment ever left on this blog? The only question is whether the comment is typical of leftist thought. I think that might be a little unfair. Typical leftist thought probably gives the people some more benefit of the doubt. In that they believe the American people choose the ideas based on stupidity rather than race – though race helps.

I guess that makes me stupid – for preferring free markets.

By: ELC

ELC — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:59:10 +0000

@ Neo 8:13 p.m. Could be. Thanks.

By: Tom the Redhunter

Tom the Redhunter — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:43:39 +0000

“which left the President groveling at the feet of Congressional Republicans”

My god they have enormous majorities in both houses and still they blame the Republicans.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:33:14 +0000

Nice research, Mrs. Thx!

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:30:14 +0000

The accusations of racism delegitimize the accused only to the extent anybody believes that crap any longer.
According to Jon Steward, not many do.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:02:37 +0000

Actually, I think there’s a pretty good chance that 12alainu is black. If you do a little searching with Google and Bing on the name, you’ll find other comments — such as a remark to the effect that white southerners refer to the birth of a black child as “dropping a pickaninny,” a warning that the 14th amendment will be repealed and white Americans will start another civil war if they drop to less than 40% of the population, the statement that right-to-lifers only care about white babies, and even an attack on Obama and Holder for not being black enough. There’s quite a lot of explicit and implicit anti-white hatred. I’d say that alainu12 finds it easy to perceive race hatred in others because he (or she) is full of such hatred himself (or herself.)