debate, please

[realthog]

A friend sent me this. I'd be interested to hear if there are contrary arguments.

A list of recent major causes the right has been vigorously exercised about:

- Getting Van Jones fired for supporting a cause he didn't support

- Castigating the Justice Department for not bringing a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panthers, who intimidated nobody and almost don't exist (a reporter from the Inquirer went around the neighborhood interviewing residents and couldn't find anyone who had heard of them)

- Taking down ACORN, an organization very successful in helping poor and black people vote and get jobs

- Condemning the NAACP for its stance against racism by accusing it of racism

- Getting Shirley Sherrod fired for...exactly nothing

- Going after the president because he isn't a citizen, is a socialist, is a communist, is a Nazi and a load of other shit

- Claiming that the lack of a videotape proves that a black congressman was not called a nigger

- Harrassing illegal immigrants (rather than the American citizens who employ them knowingly)

- And now -- believe it or not -- campaigning for the replacement of the current 13th Amendment (abolishing slavery) with the "original" 13th amendment (stripping citizenship from anyone accepting an emolument or title from a foreign country) so that Nobel Prize-winner Barack Obama can be shown the door for accepting this honor from...what appears not to be a foreign government

 

What do all these things have in common? Black people and/or poor people. But they ain't prejudiced. Oh, no, they're not. It's just all a horrid coincidence.

 

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's appalling.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

You never said a truer word.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

The "thirteenthers", in addition, consider esquire a title of nobility.

Ennobling almost the entire male population of Britain and Ireland strikes me as rather odd.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Too true, squire!

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Are these people serious? If so, then they are insane -- but then, so was Hitler when he proposed outlawing Jews...

[realthog.livejournal.com]

What's even worse, if you think about it, is that the witless, gutless mainstream media -- and far too many Democrat pols -- fall for this malicious nonsense every blasted time.

[deliabarry.livejournal.com]

Contrary arguments? Nope, can't think of any.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Me neither.

By the way, did you get the note I sent you (via LJ) the other day?

[deliabarry.livejournal.com]

I have now. ;) (Work has been insane.)

I really, really liked the book - so much so that I'm thinking about assigning it to my Integrated Science class next semester. Maybe then they will understand. Hey, a girl can hope.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you've been so busy; I hope it's all calmed down a little now.

Many thanks for the kind comments about the book!

[plattcave.livejournal.com]

Jules Feiffer's new memoir, Backing Into Forward, contains some surprising and illuminating insight on this mindset, which actually dates back to the 1950s. The white middle class gained a modicum of success and is now terrified that anyone who is not them is going to take it away. They'll do anything to keep it, even if (especially if?) it compromises the values they once espoused. Everyone else is now the "other" and is therefore the enemy -- especially if some liberal is trying to "give" someone something "for nothing" that came out of the "right's" pocket.

[realthog.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the observation . . . and for recommending the Feiffer book. It's been a donkey's age since I've read anything by him. I must track this one down at some point when my reading time is my own again.